Quotes

I was going through one of my Chinese Medicine books called "The Web That Has No Weaver", during Christmas break one evening when I came across a little quote project I did on the computer. My initial intentions was to re-read Chapter Six on the Four Pillars. I got into the third page and some quotes came across my eyes that I really found interesting. I have read these quotes a couple of times before, but they did not stand out to me til at this very moment. Into three pages of this chapter, and three hours later I found myself with about 12 Tabs of Lung Channel research, Lau Tzo, Large Intestine Meridian Pictures, my own Meridian Map that I made for an Asian Body Class a couple of quarters ago and my Kinesiology book. I thought I was suppose to be on vacation! lol..Studying Chinese Medicine there just doesn't seem to be an end point... Always closing everything up with even more questions then with what I had before hand, but it is just amazing! I will have a question about the Kidney Meridian and I end up somehow on two or three astrology websites and exploring unconscious questions I have about my own self.pretty narly.

Anywho, in what was just a recapture of something I read a bit ago I got a little more into depth of what I have become pretty passionate about. The Art of Chinese Medicine and the Science of Chinese Medicine. It is mind blowing to me. It makes so much more sense to me than Western Medicine. I didn't think I would be this into it, but I am and I don't think I could ask for anything else to be passionate about at this point and time in my life. Anywho I began toying around with my nerdy Microsoft Publisher 2007 Software and made a Quotes Collage on Lau Tzo. Wanted to put them on my blog.

Quotes from LAU TZO
"To be bent is to become straight.
To be empty is to be full.
To be worn out is to be renewed.
To have little is to possess."

"In order to contract, it is necessary to first expand. In order to weaken, it is necessary to first strengthen. In order to destroy, it is necessary first to promote. In order to grasp, it is necessary first to give."

"He who stand on tiptoe is not steady.
He who strides forward does not go.
He who shows himself is not luminous.
He who justifies himself is not prominent.
He who boasts of himself is not given credit.
He who brags does not endure for long."

"Being and non-being produce each other.
Difficult and easy complete each other.
Long and short contrast each other.
High and Low distinguish each other.
Front and back follow each other."

and my favorite........................

"Because of the right, there is a wrong and because of the wrong, there is a right.... The "this" is also the "that". The "that" is also the "this:... Is there really a distinction between "that" and "this"?.... When "this" and "that" have no opposites."