falling
“… we are falling, and there is nothing that can stop it. So instead of living in a state of chronic tension, and clinging to all sorts of things that are actually falling with us because the whole world is …
Category: Tao
purity
Many talk about purity, or being pure. There’s something very understandable and attractive about the concept of purity. But it’s more a scientific and colloquial matter than a realistic virtue. I don’t think I have ever seen pure gold, and …
judgement
Chapter two of the Tao Te Ching explains that to judge something as beautiful we must acknowledge something else as ugly. The very discernment perhaps creates the ugliness. To express what we like, we often express what we dislike, either …
free fall
It must be exhilarating to jump from a plane and fall, tumble, and glide through the air. The trust one would place in the parachute must be absolute, and so the jump and fall must be an incredible feeling of …
on purpose
A couple of phrases I’ve incorporated into my personal philosophy frequently help guide me. ‘You can’t control how others behave, only your reaction.’ ‘Act, don’t react.’ (If you have an idea where these phrases originated, please leave a comment.) Taoist …