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The Wisdom of the Tao : ancient stories that delight, inform, and inspire / selected and edited by Deng Ming-Dao.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: �2018 Publisher: Charlottesville, VA : Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xvi, 191 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1571748377
  • 9781571748379
Uniform titles:
  • Dao zang. Selections. English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 299.514 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1900.A1 D46 2018
Summary: "The Wisdom of the Tao is filled with 144 ancient stories that express profound truth by fusing delightful anecdotes with philosophy. Here are stories that lead people to do the following: flow with life, live from the heart, develop an openness to possibilities, live in balance, drop expectations, embrace acceptance...[Stories] help us make sense of who we are and how we got here. They keep us sane as we try to absorb our experiences, our aging, and our emotions. Stories help us visualize the future by taking the messages of yesterday and helping us get tomorrow right."--Page 2 of cover.
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BOOK BOOK Harrison Memorial Library NONFICTION Adult Nonfiction 299.514 DEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31624003726619
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"The majority of these stories are taken from two Taoist sources, Zhuangzi (370-287 BCE) and Liezi (c. fifth century BCE). We don't know much about either author ... Both books belong to the Taoist Canon, a collection of about 1,400 texts"--Page xv.

"The Wisdom of the Tao is filled with 144 ancient stories that express profound truth by fusing delightful anecdotes with philosophy. Here are stories that lead people to do the following: flow with life, live from the heart, develop an openness to possibilities, live in balance, drop expectations, embrace acceptance...[Stories] help us make sense of who we are and how we got here. They keep us sane as we try to absorb our experiences, our aging, and our emotions. Stories help us visualize the future by taking the messages of yesterday and helping us get tomorrow right."--Page 2 of cover.

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