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
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
Make room to welcome Life - Taoism
Sometimes, it's fewer shoots but deeper roots.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
Happiness blooms where gratitude lives
Happiness Begins with Gratitude.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
Know Yourself Without Limiting Yourself - Taoism
Make room for your identity to change.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
Returning to Your Inner Rhythm - Taoism
What if your fatigue is caused by a pace that isn't right for you in the first place ?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
Spring, the Season of Letting Go - Taoism
The renewal of spring reminds us of the importance of introspection.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 chasing Time - Taoism
To regain clarity in our relationship with time.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
Take a step back to see things more clearly - Taoism
Taking a step back often allows you to see things more clearly and make choices that are better suited 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
One step at a time - Taoism
Progress can be soft, steady, and still real.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 solitude refreshes you - Taoism
Time alone is a precious commodity that connects all aspects of your life.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
The Illusion of Control - Taoism
Sometimes, the best option is to let go in order to better return to oneself.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 Force, Flow - Taoism
An invitation to explore another way of changingFree resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Everything Has Its Timing - Taoism
There is a time that cannot be shortened.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
The feeling of being overwhelmed - Taoism
Lightening your weight allows you to be more welcoming.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
Meditation to welcome the new year - Taoism
A new year opens up new paths.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
The wisdom of the right timing - Taoism
Everything happens at the right time.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
Simplify your life - Taoism
We often fail to see what is right in front of our eyes.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
The Temptation of Anger - Taoism
The Temptation of Anger.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
Gratitude is the Path to Joy - Taoism
Have an open heart to the world and to life.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
A Life Full of Too Much - Taoism
When Life feels Overcrowded.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
The Path to Inner Calm - Taoism
Calmness is the source of a fertile mind.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
The Trap of Always More - Taoism
When desires have no end.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
The Power of Silence - Taoism
How can we find peace amid noise?Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Simplicity is a Difficult Path - Taoism
What seems simple requires the greatest attention.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Recovering clarity of mind - Taoism
Emerging from the daily fog.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Live life at your own pace - Taoism
Find your own pace.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Effortless Discipline - Taoism
Do, without forgetting yourself.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Attachment can trap you - Taoism
Become free again from what holds you back.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
The Power of Solitude - Taoism
Really take time for yourself.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Find your Inner Balance - Taoism
Balance is often found at the end of an uncertain path.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Do not rush, take your time - Taoism
Create calm so you can finally focus on what matters.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
The Illusion of our Ego - Taoism and Buddhism
Beyond the walls of our self-constructed limitations lies true peace.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Thoughts can be a prison - Taoism
Let go to live fully.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
The Very Essence of life - Gratitude in Taoism
Welcoming what life offers us.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
The art of letting go - Taoism
Accepting that you don't always have control is liberating.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Listen to Your Inner Seasons - Taoism
Like nature, our own lives move through cycles of creativity, abundance, reflection, and stillness.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
