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Widsom of The Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
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The Tao Te Ching is a book loaded with pearls of wisdom. It will free you of all anxiety and give you real inner peace.

The Tao is about accepting change and enjoying evolution. You will feel real harmony with the way of nature, and act with effortless skill.

It will connect you with the root of life itself - the Tao - the energetic, eternal consciousness. Thus, the passing issues of the world cannot bother you.

It was written 2500 years ago, by a monk who ventured into the mountains alone to find life’s answers.

The Tao Te Ching contains 81 short, beautiful verses, and makes life-purpose, and human-nature very clear.

Here are some great lessons from the book:

  • When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. – v 8
  • Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. – v 9
  • Having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue. – v 10
  • Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? – v 15
  • Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. – v 16
  • The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle. – v 29
  • Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. – v 33
  • Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. – v 44.
  • I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. – v 67
  • Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. – v 78

The great secret is to relax and move with change.


We are surfers on colossal waves. Struggling against reality is suffering. With ease, we ride.

You can read The Tao Te Ching for free online, here

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Have you read the The Tao Te Ching? What did you think of it?