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.
115 episodes transcribedToday, we're going to look at a reversal at the heart of how effort works: the fact that some things retreat from us precisely because we are reac...
The question I would like us to sit with is a simple one, and I suspect it has visited almost everyone listening. Why does the life we did not live al...
Today we're going to sit with a frustration that lives underneath a great many abandoned projects and unfinished changes, the frustration of thing...
What do you reach for when things get difficult?We all have our tools and we carry them everywhere. But most of us have never once asked whether they...
All week we have been pulling the plug on the things that keep us scattered and half-present. Today we finally turn to what all that unplugging was fo...
Never in human history have we been this connected, able to reach almost anyone, instantly, at any hour, and loneliness has climbed steadily right alo...
Your attention is not only wandering off on its own. It is being taken. There is now an entire economy built on capturing it, staffed by some of the m...
Today we go after one of the buried ones, the fear that keeps us checking, reaching, and saying yes when we mean no: the fear of missing out, and what...
We are told, constantly, that trusting yourself is a feeling. That confident people simply have more of it, some inner certainty the rest of us lack....
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.The life in front of you unfolds in real time, once, and a great deal of the time we are not there for it, off in the fut...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.We carry a low, constant discomfort with the void, and we have arranged much of modern life so that we never quite have t...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.We tend to treat ordinary life as the waiting room for the real thing. Real life, we imagine, is somewhere further on, in...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.To want less is to step off an escalator that everyone around you is riding upward, to risk looking unambitious, to stop...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.When life becomes too loud, the first thing to go missing is the sound of our own life.More resources:Free resources, boo...
Nothing arrives in the world at full size. Nothing. And yet when we imagine our own beginnings, we picture them arriving at full size, and then we are...
Look at what actually happens to people who treat themselves with compassion, and you find they are not less driven but more.More resources:Free resou...
We carry a private grudge against ourselves, sometimes for years, sometimes for decades, over a betrayal, a failure, a way we hurt someone we loved, a...
Behind every composed surface is a person with their own fears and failures and regrets, their own parts they pray no one will ever see.More resources...
We are fluent in kindness toward others and strangely mute in it toward ourselves.More resources:Free resources, books and more on http...
Notice, for a moment, how you speak to yourself on a bad day, after a mistake, a failure, something you are ashamed of. There is usually a running com...
