Lao Tzu Quotes

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.

Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

I'm at peace.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

I feel very peaceful.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

When you don't cling to anything, there is nowhere to go - all boats have been abandoned, you cannot go anywhere; all paths have been dropped, you cannot go anywhere; all dreams and desires have disappeared, there is no way to move. Relaxation happens of its own accord. Just think of the word relax. Be, settle, you have come home.

Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.