Life Wisdom is a podcast inspired by Taoist teachings, offering guidance on mindfulness and inner peace. Each episode features meditative storytelling, simple practices, and deep reflections to help you reconnect with the present moment. Brought to you by Substack bestseller author Chen Li, from the blog Words of Taoism.
89 episodes transcribedThe deepest discipline is not never falling away. It is learning how to return without turning against yourself.Free resources, books and more on ...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.We have moved from seeing more of another person's story, to listening past their words, to imagining our way into th...
Welcome back to daily wisdom.You know the moment. A message arrives with the wrong tone, or someone says the thing that finds your sore spot, and befo...
Welcome Back to Daily Wisdom.Each of us moves through life inside a world built from our own history, our fears, the things that once hurt us and the...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.Most of us think of ourselves as good listeners, and in some moments perhaps we are. We care. We try to be present. We wo...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.The story we build about another person is often a confession of our own, which is worth remembering the next time one ar...
We nearly always confuse strength with hardness, and gentleness with weakness.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.c...
Welcome back to daily wisdom.By the time a day ends, most of us have already quietly judged it. We got somewhere, or we fell behind. And what is strik...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.We are fluent in the language of doing too much, and nearly mute in the language of living at the wrong speed. We know ho...
Welcome back to daily wisdom.We can accept slowness more easily when we have chosen it. A slow walk, a slow morning, a slow conversation. But when the...
Welcome back to daily wisdom.We speak about saving time as if time were something we could keep somewhere. We say we gain time, lose time, spend time,...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, I would like us to explore our relationship with time. Because many of us know how to organize time, divide it...
When was the last time you were truly alone?Perhaps the question troubles us a little, if the answer feels distant. But it is not meant as a reproach....
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.There is a moment, when you enter a dark room, when you think you can see nothing.At first, the darkness seems complete....
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.We often want to know the meaning of a step before we take it. We want to know whether this beginning will lead somewhere...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, we are exploring what it means to trust what is not fully clear yet. We began with self-trust, and the idea th...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.There are transitions that begin beneath our understanding. A person does not always know at first why they feel less at...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, I would like us to explore what it means to trust what is not fully clear yet. Not to rush toward certainty, a...
You finally arrive at something new, something hoped for, something chosen. And yet, just as one door opens in front of you, another door closes behin...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu says that the heavy is the root of the light, and stillness is the master of restlessness.I...
