Tao Te Ching Quotes

Stephen Mitchell
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Tao Te Ching.

Tao Te Ching Quotes

Stephen Mitchell
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Tao Te Ching.
This section contains 681 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
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"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." Chapter 1.



"We join spokes together in a wheel, / but it is the center hole / that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot, / but it is the emptiness inside / that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house, / but it is the inner space / that makes it livable.
We work with being, / but non-being is what we use." Chapter 11.


"Other people are bright; / I alone am dark. / Other people are sharp...

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