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> 18 quotes tagged "truth"
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Beauty adorns substance but cannot replace it. Grace in manner enhances truth. Form and content must balance in elegant harmony.I Ching, Hexagram 22: Grace / Beauty
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When darkness prevails, hide your light but do not extinguish it. Outer yielding protects inner truth. Persevere quietly through hard times.I Ching, Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light / Adversity
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Inner truth resonates like a bell. Sincerity moves hearts and opens doors. When you speak from genuine understanding, others recognize it.I Ching, Hexagram 61: Inner Truth / Sincerity
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Those who wish to know the whole truth take joy in doing the work and service that comes to them. This simple path leads to peace, virtue, and abundance.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 1
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Keep your mind free of divisions and distinctions. When your mind is detached, simple, quiet, then all things can exist in harmony, and you can begin to perceive the subtle truth.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 11
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Regard these teachings with reverence, practice their truths, illuminate them to others. You will receive as many blessings from the universe as there are grains of sand in the River of Timelessness.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 12
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The highest virtue one can exercise is to accept the responsibility of discovering and transmitting the whole truth. Those who improve themselves for the sake of the world will be revealed the whole truth of the universe.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 16
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Do not go about worshipping deities as the source of the subtle truth. If you want to worship the Tao, first discover it in your own heart. Then your worship will be meaningful.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 17
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The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 23
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Why not trust the plainness and simplicity of the Integral Way? Living with unconditional sincerity, eradicating all duality, celebrating the equality of things, your every moment will be in truth.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 25
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The Tao doesn't come and go. It is always present everywhere, just like the sky. Can you be still and look inside? Then you will see that the truth is always available, always responsive.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 31
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Every thing is equal to every other thing. Names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Look behind them, and you will discern the deep, silent, complete truth of the Tao.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 32
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The truth vibrates in every thing and every not-thing, right off the tip of your nose. Discover the harmony in your own being. Embrace it. If you can do this, you will gain everything.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 38
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Those who practice the truth of these teachings will acquire the subtle light of wisdom, the mighty sword of clarity, and the mystical pearl of understanding that envelops the entire universe.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 79
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What the mouth enjoys is discussing matters of right and wrong; preventing this expression obstructs our capacity for wisdom and understanding.Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure, Ch. 8
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The eye that is single will refuse to look on the world. Focused inner vision brings understanding that scattered external pursuit cannot achieve.Huai Nan Tzu, Essay 3
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The reward of good and evil is like the shadow accompanying a body.T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien – Moral Injunctions
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There is a bright pearl within me, buried for a long time under dust and dirt. Today, the dust is removed and the light radiates, shining through all the thousand mountains.Zen Poem – Master Yueh of Ch'a-ling