If I was compiling a manual for living, this chapter would be in it. You should read it, ALL of it. The lines I’ll pull from here are more general, but great paradigm shifts of humility, simplicity, allowing everything to just be. …like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with … More ToV 8 – humility and respect
It [the Tao] is always present within you. You can use it any way you want. These words get me so excited! People tend to think a spiritual life is a separate, special sort of life; that you have to be a yoga teacher, or life coach, or provide a home for wayward pigeons or … More ToV 6 – you can use it any way you want
The Master leads by emptying people’s minds, and filling their cores, … He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. This whole chapter is really juicy and lays out emptiness, not-doing, and being in accord with the Tao really well. I’ve just pulled … More ToV 3 – embrace bewilderment
The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The only advice I got on Taoist meditation was: try not to try not to think. There are things you’re just never going to accomplish if you really put your head to them. When I gave my friend this book, he complained of the … More ToV 1 – try not to try not to think
Valerie Roney 