Here are the ones that instantly ring of Taoism.
"Nisargadatta said"
Find the immutable center where all movement takes birth.
Just like a wheel turns round an axle, so must you be always at the axle in the center and not whirling at the periphery.
Immobility and silence are not inactive. The flower fills the space with perfume, the candle—with light.
It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts.
It is all quite simple. Turn away from your desires and fears and from the thoughts they create and you are at once in your natural state.
Nothing stops you from being a Jnani here and now, except fear. You are afraid of being impersonal, of impersonal being.
There is nothing to renounce. Enough if you stop acquiring.
The problem is excessive interest, leading to self-identification. Whatever you are engrossed in you take to be real.
The 'I am' in movement creates the world. The 'I am' at peace becomes the Absolute.
I am not concerned with the universe. Let it be or not be. It is enough if I know myself.
Pity the self that is, not the world that is not!
All these attributes; being, consciousness, love and beauty are reflections of the real in the world. No real—no reflection.
Change the current of your desire from taking to giving.
The passion for giving, for sharing, will naturally wash the idea of an external world out of your mind, and of giving as well.
Only the pure radiance of love will remain, beyond giving and receiving.
In love there is not the one even, how can there be two? Love is the refusal to separate, to make distinctions.
The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality, make no difference between east and west.
You are eager to separate right from wrong, because you need some basis for action. You are always after doing something or other.
It is right to be oneself, it is wrong not to be. All else is conditional.
Awareness is dynamic, love is being. Awareness is love in action.
By itself the mind can actualize any number of possibilities, but unless they are prompted by love, they are valueless.
Love precedes creation. Without it there is only chaos.
Chaos is movement for movement's sake. True action does not displace; it transforms.
Just remember, nothing perceivable is real. Activity is not action. Action is hidden, unknown, unknowable. You can only know the fruit.
Through the film of your mind you project a world and also a God to give it cause and purpose. It is all imagination—step out of it.
Pure being, filling all and beyond all, is not existence which is limited. All limitation is imaginary, only the unlimited is real.
To be free in the world you must be free of the world. Otherwise your past decides for you and your future.
First return to your true being and then act from the heart of love."
~~ I meant to edit out lines which I thought were not instantly Taoistic in nature but actually they all are, but I suppose, for the defining words [Tao, Love. Jnani, Master..].
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