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Tag: Stephen Mitchell

  • Tao Inspiration – The Path to Serenity

    Tao Inspiration – The Path to Serenity

    Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back.The only path to serenity. ~ Mitchell, Stephen. Tao Te Ching (Perennial Classics) .…

  • Tao Inspiration – The Path to Serenity

    Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. ~ Mitchell, Stephen. Tao Te…

  • Inspiration – the Source

    I came across this translation of the Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell, and am really enjoying the fresh language and approach to the wisdom of Lao Tzu. A part of me also wonders, could it be that I have changed over time, and it is more than fresh words that open up new insight….…