![]() ![]() The premise is to “ think about something you’ve always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30 days.” I am challenging myself to post one blog entry a day for 30 consecutive days. This entry is part of my undertaking a 30-day challenge Matt Cutts talked about at TED2011. If you don’t understand this, you will get lost, What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? ![]() Thus the Master is available to all people When the clouds pass, the sun shines through.”Ī good scientist has freed himself of concepts She is present, and can welcome all things.” Till your mud settles and the water is clear? “Can you coax your mind from its wandering When you are content to be simply yourself “When people see some things as beautiful, English Version with Foreword and Notes, by Stephen Mitchell, HarperPerennial 1991. Now, sharing with you some of my favorite quotes from it, hoping that they may offer you wisdom and maybe some comfort, too: In his self - help book, Tao Te Ching ( The Book of the Way ). ![]() Because though on the surface, the Tao’s teachings seem self-contradictory (“ Those who live with the Tao act without doing“, “ Stay behind and get ahead“), upon deeper reflection they do reveal certain truths. I go back to those pages when nothing seems to make sense anymore. Although I am no expert on this or anything related to this or anything at all except being a fuck-up, I seem to understand what this book this weird beautiful enlightened little book is saying to me.” ~ James Frey, A Million Little Piecesįrey related several verses from the Tao Te Ching in his own words, which I had copied into my own Journal, as I found comfort in them, too. They ring true and that is all that matters the truth. “They speak to me, make sense to me, reverberate within me, calm ease sedate relax still pacify me. Frey, who was an alcoholic going through rehab (more on this at a later post!), wrote that he found comfort in reading the Tao Te Ching: I first learned of the Tao Te Ching when I read the book A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Although its true author is not (or cannot be) absolutely verified, the text is attributed to Chinese philosopher and writer Lao-Tzu (also, Lao-Tse or Laozi). It offers wisdom on how to live and lead with virtue. The Tao Te Ching (roughly translated as “The Book of the Way of Virtue”) is an ancient Chinese text consisting of 81 verses mainly about the Tao (“the Way”). ![]()
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