The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

Tao Te Ching · Chapter 1 · ~600 BCE

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The Tao

Two thousand five hundred years before "burnout" became a word, Lao Tzu was writing about the cost of forcing. The Tao Te Ching, 81 short verses, is the most translated text in human history after the Bible, and the cleanest counter to modern striving still on offer. This page is…

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