Tao Quotations

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.

The more you know the less you talk.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.

Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with

When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching’s universe and then ten thousand more. Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve.

The Tao is near and people seek it far away.

The more you know, the less you need.

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence Tao is apprehended.

The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

The tao is made because we walk it,things become what they are called.

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.