#tao

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

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Life is serious...but you cannot take it seriously. ↗

— Peter Butterworth

#life

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#tao #nature

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#metaphysics #philosophy #religion #tao #taoism

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening ↗

— Zhuangzi

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