Taoism

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times — Quote #1 The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Quote #2 When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you. Quote #3 Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. …

Recently, a fellow medium writer, Teresa Roberts, wrote an article titled: A Letter to the Hundreds of Religions. I started a comment on her article but it started to get so long I decided to turn my comment into an article in its own right. …

The first rule of the Tao is nobody talks about the Tao — “The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.” This is the first verse of the Tao Te Ching, an ancient book of Chinese philosophy that has crossed cultures and the centuries. If you talk about the Tao it’s not the Tao. So of course everyone talks about…

The paradoxical philosopher beloved by Socrates, Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger — Heraclitus of Ephesus is a philosopher’s philosopher. He was beloved by such giants as Socrates, Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger. Nietzsche once wrote that “in his presence I feel more at home than anywhere else” while Socrates, when asked what he thought of Heraclitus’s treatise, apparently said: “The part I…