![]() ![]() ![]() Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. ![]() Yet it nourishes and completes all things” Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.” ![]() Because he is content with himself he doesn’t need others’ approval. Because he believes in himself, he doesn’t try to convince others. He understands the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao. My favorite parts of the text were chapters 30, 41 and 67, which deal with approval and self-acceptance, the Tao itself and it’s universality, and the three keys to the Tao (simplicity, patience and compassion). Lao Tzu covers a wide spectrum of human experience from love and peace to war and governance. Beneath the witty, pithy aphorisms, lies deep truth and profound insight into human behavior. Although the Tao Te Ching has received much hyped attention in recent years from various modern-day gurus and charlatans alike, it is worthy of the great reputation that precedes it. This book is 100 odd pages of poetically distilled wisdom from the 6th century B.C. ![]()
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