Lao Tzu Quotes on Mind (12 Quotes)


    ... These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

    As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

    To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

    I confess that there is nothing to teach no religion, no science, no body of information which will lead your mind back to the Tao. Today I speak in this fashion, tomorrow in another, but always the Integral Way is beyond words and beyond mind.

    ... the mind is desperate to fix the river of events in place Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.


    No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

    Distortion upon distortion ... the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

    Does one scent appeal more than another Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling Is your practice sacred and your work profane Then your mind is separated from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.

    Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. But spiritual insight transcends death.

    To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

    Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings.... If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

    Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs.... Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.


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