The Tao — The way of effortless action — when to stop pushing, when to begin.

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 its working bench. Not a translation; a way to use it.