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 i…

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