About two weeks ago a video came up in my YouTube feed that felt like coming home. The video is about the Tao Te Ching and the idea of non-action. The way to live life, the Tao Te Ching says, is to go with the flow, to wait until you receive the message from theContinue reading “This May Seem Counterintuitive”
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Soft and Supple are Strongest
“Human beings are soft and supple when alive, stiff and straight when dead. The myriad creatures, the grasses and trees are soft and fragile when alive, dry and withered when dead. Therefore, it is said: The rigid person is a disciple of death; The soft, supple, and delicate areContinue reading “Soft and Supple are Strongest”
Oh Yeah, Spread Love
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” ~ Lao Tzu “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. So this weekend I forgot for a few moments to spread love. Sometimes using technology is myContinue reading “Oh Yeah, Spread Love”
Shōgun
“How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.” ~ James Clavell, Shōgun “First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.” ~ James Clavell, Shōgun “it’s a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, anotherContinue reading “Shōgun”
Rigid or Pliant
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” ~ Robin Williams “They say best men moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much moreContinue reading “Rigid or Pliant”
Sage Woman Chronicles 