I’m going to do something that is completely out of my comfort zone but so necessary. I’m going to ask my wife to read my next post before I publish it to this blog. Why is this news? Well usually,…
Taking Chances and Being Vulnerable
Category: Lesson
Happy New Year. What’s your resolution?
Happy New year to you and yours. Keeping in line with tradition, I am compelled to ask, “What is your New Year’s resolution?” My wife asked me about resolutions a while back and I gave her a pretty cynical answer.…
Tao Te Ching 8th Verse Thoughts
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things withouttrying to. It flows to low places loathed by all men. Therefore, it islike the Tao Live in accordance with the nature of things. In dwelling, be close tothe land. …
Tao Te Ching 7th Verse Thoughts
Heaven is eternal – the earth endures. Why do heaven and earth last forever? They do not live for themselves only. This is the secret of their durability For this reason the sage puts himself last and so ends up…
Tao Te Ching: 6th Verse Thoughts
The spirit that never dies is called the mysterious feminine Although she becomes the whole universe, her immaculate purity is never lost. Although she assumes countless forms, her true identity remains intact. The gateway to the mysterious female is called…
Tao Te Ching: Verse 5 Thoughts
Heaven and earth are impartial; they see the 10,000 things as straw dogs. The sage is not sentimental; he treats all his people as straw dogs The sage is like heaven and earth: To him none are especially dear, nor…
Tao Te Ching: Fourth Verse Thoughts
The Tao is empty but inexhaustible, bottomless, the ancestor of it all. Within it, the sharp edges become smooth; the twisted knots loosen; the sun is softened by a cloud; the dust settles into place. It is hidden but always…