Timeless Wisdom on Life from Tao Te Ching with Author Jessie Kanzer: TIT126
Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text that offers wisdom on how to live life with goodness and integrity.
Jessie Kanzer and I discuss several verses of this text on the definition of love, the concept of being and not-being, letting go of self-expectation vulnerability and more.
Jessie Kanzer is an Author, Actor and former reporter. Her work has appeared in Washington Post, NYT, Huffington Post among others. She is the author of a new book, Don't Just Sit There, DO NOTHING: Healing, Chilling and Living with Tao Te Ching
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:25 What is Tao Te Ching and why it is a powerful text?
07:49 Meaning of Stillness and Doing Nothing
12:01 Concept of being and not-being
15:08 Life is a dance of shadows
18:16 Understanding our Human-self and Higher-self
20:44 How to deal with Perfectionism?
24:20 Vulnerability and Becoming yourself
26:45 Dealing with "I am not enough"
30:55 Most beautiful definition of love
37:28 Letting go of self-expectation
39:30 Expectations in romantic relationships
43:25 Be like water!
47:30 Jessie's new book
53:00 Jessie's most important lesson
54:00 Outro