“The highest goodness resembles water…It stays in places that people dislike.”— Tao te Ching, Chapter 8 Today’s lesson is short and sweet: when we’re attuned to goodness: – to being in the right place at the...
“The sages … place themselves last, but end up in front.”— Tao te Ching, Chapter 7 Or, as Jesus would put it about 500 years later: “So the last shall be first, and the first last” (Matthew 20:16). This is one of...
“The Mystic Female … flows continuously, barely perceptible.”— Tao te Ching, Chapter 6 I grew up in a faith that rejected the idea of the Divine Feminine. Our attention was fixed on the Heavenly Father and the Son. While we...
“Heaven and Earth are impartialAnd regard myriad things as straw dogs.The sages are impartialAnd regard people as straw dogs.”— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 At first, I didn’t care much for today’s Tao te Ching chapter. I...
I’ve just received an email informing me that my small business, InfoCrafts, has been recognized by the Small Business Commerce Association as “Best of Business” in Atlanta in 2010! But — there are problems. InfoCrafts.com...
“[The Way] blunts the sharpnessUnravels the knotsDims the glareMixes the dusts.”— Tao te Ching, Chapter 4 Today’s chapter reveals the nature of the Tao (or the Way). The Way is too large and deep to be filled up. As a...
“Let the people have no cunning and no greed So those who scheme will not dare to meddle.” — Tao te Ching, Chapter 3 Today’s chapter in the Tao would not make Don Draper happy. It suggests: – treasuring rare goods...
“The sages …succeed but do not dwell on success. It is because they do not dwell on success that it never goes away.” (Tao de Ching, Chapter 2) One way we get caught up in the world — distracted by the 10,000 things —...
In my morning meditation time, I’m reading the Tao Te Ching, a classic Chinese text about conscious living. As a way of going deeper into the book, I’m jotting down my notes here on MadeByMark.com. If you like these entries, why not join...
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