Life Wisdom - By Words of Taoism

Somewhere along the way, most of us start keeping score of what passes between us and other people. And in that accounting, a gift or a compliment shows up as a debt. Debts are uncomfortable, so we se...

22 Elo 20min

Today, we're going to look at a reversal at the heart of how effort works: the fact that some things retreat from us precisely because we are reaching for them.More resources:Free resources, books and...

17 Elo 23min

The question I would like us to sit with is a simple one, and I suspect it has visited almost everyone listening. Why does the life we did not live always seem to have gone better than the one we are ...

15 Elo 33min

Today we're going to sit with a frustration that lives underneath a great many abandoned projects and unfinished changes, the frustration of things that simply take time to ripen.More resources:Free r...

11 Elo 34min

What do you reach for when things get difficult?We all have our tools and we carry them everywhere. But most of us have never once asked whether they actually work, because we are usually too busy usi...

9 Elo 31min

All week we have been pulling the plug on the things that keep us scattered and half-present. Today we finally turn to what all that unplugging was for, to the body, the world, and the people it was m...

7 Elo 14min

Never in human history have we been this connected, able to reach almost anyone, instantly, at any hour, and loneliness has climbed steadily right alongside all that connection.More resources:Free res...

6 Elo 15min

Your attention is not only wandering off on its own. It is being taken. There is now an entire economy built on capturing it, staffed by some of the most talented people alive, and its whole purpose i...

5 Elo 14min