Author: Diane

Do you have to be quiet to hear it? Life is busy, life is loud. I want to be centered – calm – grateful – but when life is full and demanding , it is hard. If it is inside of me, and I can use it, I need to learn how to call upon […]

The Tao doesn’t take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The master doesn’t take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. […]

The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities. It is hidden but always present. I don’t know who gave birth to it. It is older than God. It is never used up. – There’s always more ways to be patient, more ways […]

The dictionary defines the word esteem to be “to set a high value and regard highly in prize accordingly. But to overesteem would be to do this too much, it would mean placing too much value on something. So if you overesteem great men then other people become powerless. This reminds me of a experiment […]