Tao Quotes

• The Tao is told is not the Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Told
  • Tao

• The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Used
  • Well
  • Tao

• The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desire
  • Mystery
  • Source

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Name
  • Told
  • Tao

• The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Design
  • Tao

• There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Change
  • Heaven
  • Knowing

• You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Light
  • Able
  • Anticipation

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