Lao Tzu Quotes

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.

There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside.

Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

Valuing the road over the goal was a Taoist goal in itself.

This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.