If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.

Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.

You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above the subtle body is the causal body.