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 […]
I think this is telling us that we should be careful about placing labels on things. Things like beautiful and important, because that means other things must be not beautiful and not important. This reminds me of the book the giver, where pain is taken away but no one is really happy. Can one feel […]
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. When Rob first tried to explain Taoism to me, he told me what he thought it was, how it seems to him, what he understands of it. But that is what can be told, it is not all that it is. The eternal Tao […]
I am going to read the Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell and give my thoughts.
