Life Wisdom - By Words of Taoism
Life Wisdom is a podcast inspired by Taoist teachings, offering guidance on mindfulness and inner peace. Each episode features meditative storytelling, simple practices, and deep reflections to help you reconnect with the present moment. Brought to you by Substack bestseller author Chen Li, from the blog Words of Taoism.
Episodes
Why Receiving Feels So Hard - Life Wisdom #57
Somewhere along the way, most of us start keeping score of what passes between us and other people. And in that accounting, a gift or a compliment shows up as a debt. Debts are uncomfortable, so we settle them fast. Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachi
Alan Watts and the Backwards Law - Daily Wisdom #60
Today, we're going to look at a reversal at the heart of how effort works: the fact that some things retreat from us precisely because we are reaching for them.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com
Making Peace With Regret - Life Wisdom #56
The question I would like us to sit with is a simple one, and I suspect it has visited almost everyone listening. Why does the life we did not live always seem to have gone better than the one we are living?More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use,
How to become more patient ? - Daily Wisdom #59
Today we're going to sit with a frustration that lives underneath a great many abandoned projects and unfinished changes, the frustration of things that simply take time to ripen.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist:
Three Taoist Treasures for an Ordinary Day - Life Wisdom #55
What do you reach for when things get difficult?We all have our tools and we carry them everywhere. But most of us have never once asked whether they actually work, because we are usually too busy using them to evaluate them.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
How do I truly connect with myself and the world ? - Daily Wisdom #58
All week we have been pulling the plug on the things that keep us scattered and half-present. Today we finally turn to what all that unplugging was for, to the body, the world, and the people it was meant to hand back to us, and to how we actually find our way home to them.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog:
Why Am I Lonely When Surrounded? - Daily Wisdom
Never in human history have we been this connected, able to reach almost anyone, instantly, at any hour, and loneliness has climbed steadily right alongside all that connection.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https:
Who Owns My Attention? - Daily Wisdom
Your attention is not only wandering off on its own. It is being taken. There is now an entire economy built on capturing it, staffed by some of the most talented people alive, and its whole purpose is to fragment your focus and hold it, because your attention is the product being bought and sold.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/
What Am I Afraid to Miss? - Daily Wisdom
Today we go after one of the buried ones, the fear that keeps us checking, reaching, and saying yes when we mean no: the fear of missing out, and what it is really about.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyu
Why Can't I Switch Off? - Daily Wisdom
Over the next five days we are going to talk about disconnection, not as a punishment or a digital cleanse, but as a lost art worth recovering, the ability to unplug from the hundred streams that pull at us and reconnect to what actually matters.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteach
Keeping Faith With Yourself - Taoism
We are told, constantly, that trusting yourself is a feeling. That confident people simply have more of it, some inner certainty the rest of us lack. And so we try to feel our way into it. We repeat encouraging phrases. We try to believe in ourselves harder. And it does not hold, because it is built on nothing, and some honest part of us knows it is built on nothing.More resources:Free resources,
The Life in Front of You - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.The life in front of you unfolds in real time, once, and a great deal of the time we are not there for it, off in the future, or the past, or the endless commentary running in the head.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music
Stop Filling Every Empty Space - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.We carry a low, constant discomfort with the void, and we have arranged much of modern life so that we never quite have to feel it.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spo
Let the Ordinary Nourish You - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.We tend to treat ordinary life as the waiting room for the real thing. Real life, we imagine, is somewhere further on, in the breakthrough or the trip or the rare conversation that will finally wake us up, and the ordinary is just the grey stretch we cross to get there.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/
The Courage to Want Less - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.To want less is to step off an escalator that everyone around you is riding upward, to risk looking unambitious, to stop measuring your worth by how much you have managed to gather.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I u
When Life Becomes Too Noisy - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.When life becomes too loud, the first thing to go missing is the sound of our own life.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
It’s okay to Start Small - Taoism
Nothing arrives in the world at full size. Nothing. And yet when we imagine our own beginnings, we picture them arriving at full size, and then we are ashamed when they do not.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https:/
How to Be Your Own Ally - Daily Wisdom
Look at what actually happens to people who treat themselves with compassion, and you find they are not less driven but more.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
How to Forgive Yourself - Daily Wisdom
We carry a private grudge against ourselves, sometimes for years, sometimes for decades, over a betrayal, a failure, a way we hurt someone we loved, a chance we let slip through our hands.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist:
The Cracks We All Carry - Daily Wisdom
Behind every composed surface is a person with their own fears and failures and regrets, their own parts they pray no one will ever see.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Speak to Yourself Like a Friend - Daily Wisdom
We are fluent in kindness toward others and strangely mute in it toward ourselves.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Why Am I My Worst Critic? - Daily Wisdom
Notice, for a moment, how you speak to yourself on a bad day, after a mistake, a failure, something you are ashamed of. There is usually a running commentary in there, and it is rarely gentle; for many of us it is a voice we would never use on a person we loved, and we aim it at ourselves without a second thought.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism
When Everything Changes - Taoism
Beneath the ten thousand changing things, it says, there is a stillness that does not change. All things rise and flourish, each in its own season, and each in its own time returns to the place it came from.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist:
Coming Home to Yourself - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.Coming home to yourself is the difference between living as a stranger in your own experience and living as someone who belongs there, who can turn inward and find, instead of an empty room or a courtroom, a place that is genuinely theirs.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog:
How can I stay with Myself ? - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.To stay with yourself is gentler and far less busy than the fleeing makes us fear. It asks only that you keep the feeling company, letting it be there, noticing where it sits in the body, the tightness in the chest or the heaviness behind the eyes, without running from it and without spinning it into a story.More resources:Free resources, books and more on
Why Do I Take Things Personally ? - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.To take something personally is to place yourself at the center of another person's behavior, to assume that what they did was aimed, that it carried an intention toward you and a judgment of your worth.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.subst
What is Mine to Carry ? - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.Think of how you feel walking through your own door at the end of a hard day. You are often carrying a weight that is unmistakably heavy, and yet if you stopped to sort through it, you might find that a surprising amount of it is not actually yours.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog:
How to feel Closer to Myself? - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.We have arranged things so that we are almost never alone with ourselves, and the moment a pause opens, the phone is in the hand, a sound is filling the silence, the next task is already pulling us forward.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substa
Discipline can be Soft - Taoism
The deepest discipline is not never falling away. It is learning how to return without turning against yourself.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
What Does Kindness Give Back? - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.We have moved from seeing more of another person's story, to listening past their words, to imagining our way into their world, to choosing a response instead of firing off a reaction. All of it has been leaning toward one simple thing, the plain willingness to be good to another human being. So I want to end on a question we rarely stop to ask about that. What doe
Respond Instead of React - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to daily wisdom.You know the moment. A message arrives with the wrong tone, or someone says the thing that finds your sore spot, and before a single clear thought has formed, the heat is already up and the sharp reply is already writing itself. You hit send, or you say it aloud, and some part of you knows even as it happens that this is not your best self talking. It is fast, it feels
Can I See Through Another's Eyes ? - Daily Wisdom
Welcome Back to Daily Wisdom.Each of us moves through life inside a world built from our own history, our fears, the things that once hurt us and the ones we are still hoping for. A word that means nothing to you can land on someone's oldest wound, and a small kindness you barely noticed can be the thing that holds their whole day together.More resources: Free resources, books and more on
How Can I Listen Better? - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.Most of us think of ourselves as good listeners, and in some moments perhaps we are. We care. We try to be present. We would never enter a conversation hoping to miss what the other person is trying to say.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Am I Seeing the Whole Story? - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.The story we build about another person is often a confession of our own, which is worth remembering the next time one arrives feeling like simple fact.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tiny
How to Live a Softer Life - Taoism
We nearly always confuse strength with hardness, and gentleness with weakness.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Let Today Be Enough - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to daily wisdom.By the time a day ends, most of us have already quietly judged it. We got somewhere, or we fell behind. And what is striking is how often the verdict is a small no, even after a day that was full. More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Mus
The Pace That Belongs to You - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.We are fluent in the language of doing too much, and nearly mute in the language of living at the wrong speed. We know how to say we are busy, stretched, behind. What we rarely learn to name is something quieter and more corrosive: the fatigue of moving, for years, at a rhythm that was never ours.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://w
When Life Moves Slower than Wanted
Welcome back to daily wisdom.We can accept slowness more easily when we have chosen it. A slow walk, a slow morning, a slow conversation. But when the thing we want is delayed, when healing takes longer, when a project grows slowly, when clarity arrives in fragments, when change happens unevenly, slowness can begin to feel like resistance. It can feel as if life is withholding something from us.Mo
What Are You Saving Time For? - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to daily wisdom.We speak about saving time as if time were something we could keep somewhere. We say we gain time, lose time, spend time, waste time, invest time. These expressions are useful, and in some ways they are true. Time matters. It is limited. The way we use our days shapes the life we eventually live.More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://w
Not Everything is a Deadline - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, I would like us to explore our relationship with time. Because many of us know how to organize time, divide it, save it, optimize it, measure it. But we may have forgotten how to actually live inside it without turning every hour into a test.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog
The Peace you meet in Silence - Taoism
When was the last time you were truly alone?Perhaps the question troubles us a little, if the answer feels distant. But it is not meant as a reproach. No one is guilty for having adapted to a noisy world. We have simply lived in the world given to us, a world that has made distraction easy and silence rare.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/
Learning to Trust the Unknown - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.There is a moment, when you enter a dark room, when you think you can see nothing.At first, the darkness seems complete. The shapes disappear. The walls, the furniture, the distance between things, everything becomes uncertain. You may stand still for a moment, not because there is nothing there, but because your eyes have not yet learned how to see in that new conditi
Give Life Time to Reveal Itself - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.We often want to know the meaning of a step before we take it. We want to know whether this beginning will lead somewhere good, whether this change will be worth it, whether this conversation will heal or complicate things, whether this small movement will become part of a larger direction. We want the future to explain itself before we agree to enter it.More resources
Clarity Takes Time - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, we are exploring what it means to trust what is not fully clear yet. We began with self-trust, and the idea that trust is not the absence of doubt, but the ability to keep listening while life gives us only part of the path. Then we looked at the strange and tender passage of being between two lives, when the old shape has begun to loosen, but the new one ha
The Not-Yet Self - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.There are transitions that begin beneath our understanding. A person does not always know at first why they feel less at home in a place that once comforted them. They do not always know why certain ambitions lose their shine, why certain conversations feel more difficult, why certain hopes return again and again after being dismissed.More resources:Free resources, boo
Don't be afraid to trust yourself - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, I would like us to explore what it means to trust what is not fully clear yet. Not to rush toward certainty, and not to remain frozen until everything is guaranteed, but to discover how we move when life gives us only part of the path.Today, let us begin close to ourselves, with this question: what does it mean to trust yourself?More resources:Free resources
Why Good Changes Can Still Hurt - Taoism
You finally arrive at something new, something hoped for, something chosen. And yet, just as one door opens in front of you, another door closes behind you. For a moment, the heart cannot tell whether it is happy or sad, because both things are true.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.s
How to truly feel - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu says that the heavy is the root of the light, and stillness is the master of restlessness.I find this line very helpful when we speak about emotions, because the question is not only how to feel more, or how to feel less. The deeper question is how to remain rooted while something moves through us.More resources:Free resources, books and mo
Why Am I So Emotionally Tired? - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, we are staying close to the world of emotions. Yesterday, we looked at the idea that an emotion is not an enemy to suppress, and not a master to obey. It is a signal to read. Today, I would like to look at what happens when too many signals remain unread, when too many feelings are carried quietly, and when the inner life has had no real place to exhale.More
Understand What You Feel - Daily Wisdom
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, I would like us to stay close to the world of emotions, to understand them with more tenderness and more clarity. We will ask why we ignore what we feel, why small things can hurt more than expected, and why emotional tiredness sometimes becomes heavier than physical fatigue.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaois
Finding Your Right Place - Taoism
Maybe you know this feeling. The feeling of being capable, but not rooted. Needed, but not fully alive. Active, but not placed. It is possible to do many things, even to do them well, and still feel that something essential in us has not found its proper ground.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taois
How to be Honest with Yourself - Daily Wisdom #20
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu says that those who know others are wise, but those who know themselves are enlightened.I have always found this distinction powerful, because knowing oneself is not the same as thinking about oneself. And many of us think about ourselves constantly. We analyze what we should do, what we should have said, what kind of person we are becoming
What Am I Really Chasing? - Daily Wisdom #19
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.There is also a kind of chasing that does not really bring us closer to life. It moves us, but it does not nourish us. It gives us direction, but not rest. It keeps the body active and the mind alert, yet somewhere inside, we may feel that we are running after something we cannot quite name.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsof
Why Do Small Things Hurt So Much? - Daily Wisdom #18
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.Something light touches us, and a deeper sound begins. The slight coldness in someone’s voice may touch a memory of love becoming uncertain. A small criticism may awaken the belief that we must be flawless to remain accepted. The moment may be small. But what it awakens may not be small at all.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://word
Letting Life Reach You - Daily Wisdom #17
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.The present moment does not ask you to give up your dreams. It does not ask you to forget your responsibilities. It does not ask you to stop becoming. It only asks you not to abandon the life that is already touching you while you wait for another one.More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog
Why Am I Not Fulfilled?- Daily Wisdom #16
Welcome back to daily wisdom.This final week, I would like us to look beneath the surface of some of our most familiar movements: the desire for more, the difficulty of being present, the way we react before we understand, the things we keep chasing, and the words we use when we are trying to protect ourselves.Today, let’s begin with a question many of us may carry quietly, even in seasons where l
Learn to Trust Your Intuition - Taoism
How to recognize true intuition and let it become clear.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
How to stop seeking approval - Daily Wisdom #15
Welcome back to daily wisdom.Approval does not always look dramatic. Often, it happens in small movements: We hide an opinion because it might make the room less comfortable. We say yes quickly, before checking whether we mean it. We become slightly more cheerful than we feel, slightly less tired than we are, slightly more agreeable than our own truth allows.More resources:Free resources, books an
When you feel Out of Step - Daily Wisdom #14
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.You are at the gathering, and everyone seems lit from within by the occasion, and you are smiling in the right places while a distance sits in your chest.You hear people describe what they want from their lives, the things they are chasing, the future they are building toward, and you realize you do not want those things, or not in the same way, or not with the same he
How to Feel Enough - Daily Wisdom #13
Welcome back to daily wisdom.This week, we are staying close to the way we relate to ourselves from the inside. In the last reflection, we spoke about comparison, and how easily another person’s path can make our own life feel smaller than it really is. Today, we continue with a question that often lives beneath comparison, beneath self-criticism, beneath the quiet pressure to become more.More res
How to Stop Comparing Yourself - Daily Wisdom #12
Welcome back to daily wisdom. There is a story I imagine often. A small bird lives in a garden, and every morning, before singing, it looks toward the other trees. It hears the nightingale and thinks its own song is too simple. It sees the swan crossing the pond and thinks its own body is too ordinary. It watches the eagle above the hills and thinks its own wings have failed because they do not ca
Be Less Hard on Yourself - Daily Wisdom #11
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, we begin a new movement in the series. After looking at control, pressure, acceptance, responsibility, and the unknown, we now turn toward something more intimate: the way we relate to ourselves from the inside.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.
Wanting without Grasping - Taoism
There is a force in us without which nothing would ever be done. It moves us to begin, to build, to love, to hope. It carries us out ahead of ourselves, toward what does not yet exist and what we long to see come into being. We call this force desire. Without it, we would stay still, watching the world go by, never once taking part in it.Welcome back to Life Wisdom, hosted by Substack bestseller a
Being Okay With Not Knowing - Daily Taoism #10
Welcome back to daily wisdom.A person who admits they do not know yet is not necessarily lost. They may simply be refusing to lie to themselves for the comfort of an immediate answer.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://ti
You don’t Have to Hold Everything Together - Daily Wisdom #9
Welcome back to daily wisdom.A tree can offer shade, fruit, and shelter. Birds can rest in its branches. People can sit beneath it. The tree gives generously, yet it remains rooted in the earth. It is held while it holds. Its strength comes from receiving as much as giving.Many of us try to be trees without roots.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism
How to Accept What You Cannot Change? - Daily Wisdom #8
Welcome back to daily wisdom.Acceptance can sound like a cold word when the heart is still hurting. It can sound as if we are being asked to approve of what happened, to pretend it does not matter, to become peaceful before we are ready. Many of us resist acceptance because we think it means saying that what hurt us was okay.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://w
How to Stop Trying So Hard? - Daily Wisdom #7
Welcome back to daily wisdom.This week, I would like us to follow a simple thread: the places in our lives where care slowly becomes tension.Because many of us are not exhausted only because we do too much. We are exhausted because of the way we do it. We try to work well, but we carry the work like a test of our worth. We try to love well, but we become afraid of disappointing. We try to grow, bu
How to Let Go of Control? - Daily Wisdom #6
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.In the last few episodes, we have been circling around the same quiet difficulty from different angles: the way we try to keep life safe by thinking more, doing more, rushing more, proving more, holding more. And today, I want to sit with a question that is at the center of many of our struggles, even when we do not always name it directly.More resources:Free resources
Learning to Truly Rest - Taoism
I’ve been thinking about a strange pattern many of us know: the closer we get to rest, the harder we push ourselves.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Allow Yourself to Rest - Daily Wisdom #5
Welcome back to daily wisdom.Think about what happens when you finally have a free afternoon. The kind that arrives unplanned, when a meeting cancels or a task finishes early. For most of us, the first reaction is not relief. It is unease.The Taoist sages would have recognized this anxiety immediately. They wrote often about the danger of excessive doing, of constant striving, of treating one'
How to Find Peace in a Busy Day? - Daily Wisdom #4
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This is a series of short reflections for the questions we often carry quietly, without always knowing how to answer them.Today, let's sit with this question together: how do we find peace in a busy day?More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substa
How to Begin a New Path - Daily Wisdom #3
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.Most of us assume that courage is the opposite of fear. That to begin something new, we need to feel ready, certain, confident. We tell ourselves that when the conditions are right, when the noise quiets, when the season feels less heavy, then we will begin.But anyone who has actually started something will tell you the truth is stranger than that.More resources:Free r
How to Stop Feeling Behind ? - Daily Wisdom #2
Welcome to Daily Wisdom.There is something in nature that understands what many of us forget: not everything becomes ready at the same speed. Some things need another season before their sweetness can appear. And yet, when it comes to our own lives, we often speak to ourselves as if ripening were failure.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/
How to Stop Overthinking? - Daily Wisdom #1
Welcome to Daily Wisdom.This is a series of twenty short reflections built around questions I often receive in comments, hear in conversations, or recognize in the struggles of everyday life.For the next four weeks, I want this series to be a small daily companion. Something you can listen to in the morning, during a walk, before sleep, or in one of those in-between moments when you feel a little
You Don’t Have to Carry Everything - Taoism
How much of what you carry truly belongs to you?Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Let your inner voice speaks - Taoism
The inner voice beneath the noise.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Your Body knows more than you think - Taoism
Returning to the body that knows means listening to what remembers within us.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Trust what comes next - Taoïsm
What is sown at night bears fruit in the morning.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Do not rush Life - Taoism
What ripens should not be rushed.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
On Reclaiming Inner Peace - Words of Taoism
Being aware in the middle of the noise.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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