Tao/Zen Quotes

A lot of people often ask me how I keep a balance in all of my craziness and insanity. The simple answer to it all is in the quotations I study and integrate into my life.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
--Lao Tzu

Live life as life lives itself.
--Zen Saying

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is a true friend.
--Seung Sahn

Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.
--Carl Gustav Jung

All living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.
--The Buddha

You become what you think about all day long.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lose your mind and come to your senses.
--Fritz Perls

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.
--Arnold Lobel

The higher the truth, the simpler it is.
--Abraham Isaac Kook

All distinctions are falsely imagined.
--Hui-Neng

We don't see the world as it is. We see it as we are.
--Anais Nin

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
--Lao Tzu

See into life. Don't just look into it.
--Anne Baxter

The most dangerous thing in the world is to think you understand something.
--Zen Saying

Life is painful, suffering is optional.
--Sylvia Boorstein

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
--Albert Schweitzer

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
--Lao-Tzu

The wise man said, "It can't be done." The fool came and did it.
--Folk Zen

To generalize is to be an idiot.
--William Blake

Beginning is easy, continuing is hard.
--Japanese Proverb