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These 9 Words From the Tao te Ching Will Clarify the Spiritual Path for You

It’s about who we are and who we aren’t.

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David Gerken
Nov 21, 2024
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For any of you longtime readers out there, let me apologize in advance for writing a sentence I must have written twenty times before. Which is this:

The Tao te Ching is simply the best, wisest spiritual text ever written.

It was written 2,500 years ago in China by the philosopher Lao Tzu. The story goes that Lao Tzu became so disillusioned with the gover…

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