As we near the end of Tao te Ching’s 81 verses, we see Lao Tzu revisit some high themes we’ve seen before. Today’s verse 74 treats how our prior grounding and rootage in Tao is ever and always stronger than culture’s siren calls to pay attention to the worthless, lifeless dreads and find of thinking. We hear from Paul Coelho, Abraham Lincoln, Cornel West, and the book of Ecclesiastes.
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