Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Life Wisdom - By Words of Taoism
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| You can Simplify Your Life - Taoism | 26 sept. 2026 | 00:20:00 | |
A life left to itself grows the way an unpruned tree grows, in every direction at once, and it is rarely anyone's fault. More resources:
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| Gratitude Is More Than Saying Thank You | 23 sept. 2026 | 00:20:04 | |
We are very good at giving thanks and surprisingly bad at feeling grateful, and that gap is worth sitting with, because we tend to assume that the words and the feeling are the same thing at two different volumes, when they turn out to be different kinds of thing altogether. More resources:
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| It's Okay to Spend Time Alone - Taoism - Life Wisdom #61 | 19 sept. 2026 | 00:20:12 | |
"Alone" is a word we use every day that has changed its meaning under us, and I would like to spend some time with it, because the change explains a great deal about why so many of us feel the way we feel. More resources:
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| The Right Timing - Daily Wisdom #64 - Taoism | 16 sept. 2026 | 00:21:34 | |
Today I want to talk about timing. About the sense, which some people seem to have and most of us feel we lack, of when to act and when to wait, when to speak and when to hold back, when a thing is ready and when it needs more time. More resources:
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| The Need To Be Understood - Life Wisdom #60 - Taoism | 12 sept. 2026 | 00:24:49 | |
Being understood is one of the ways we feel close to another person. There is a particular ease in knowing someone can see the intention behind an awkward sentence, or recognise tiredness in a silence that might otherwise look cold.
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| Let a Good Moment be Enough - Daily Wisdom #63 | 08 sept. 2026 | 00:23:52 | |
Watch what the mind does with happiness. It rarely just takes it. I want to be careful here, because it would be easy to describe all that as a failure of presence and leave you feeling you have been doing joy incorrectly. That is not what is happening. More resources:
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| Not Everything Is Meant to Stay - Life Wisdom #59 - Taoism | 06 sept. 2026 | 00:27:37 | |
I want to talk about the story we tell ourselves when something ends. And about the fact that almost all of us have only one story available, and it is a story about failure. More resources:
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| The Beginner's Mind - Life Wisdom #62 | 01 sept. 2026 | 00:19:50 | |
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few. More resources:
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| Making Room For Your Self - Life Wisdom #58 - Taoism | 29 août 2026 | 00:19:19 | |
Most of us have promised ourselves, at some point, that we would live more simply. More resources:
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| Why Do I Need to Be Liked? - Daily Wisdom #61 | 24 août 2026 | 00:29:30 | |
Today I'd like to talk with you about something almost everyone treats as a weakness, and which I think has been badly misunderstood: the fact that we care, often a great deal, about what other people think of us. More resources:
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| Why Receiving Feels So Hard - Life Wisdom #57 | 22 août 2026 | 00:20:35 | |
Somewhere along the way, most of us start keeping score of what passes between us and other people. And in that accounting, a gift or a compliment shows up as a debt. Debts are uncomfortable, so we settle them fast. Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. More resources:
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| Alan Watts and the Backwards Law - Daily Wisdom #60 | 17 août 2026 | 00:23:14 | |
Today, 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 reaching for them. More resources:
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| Making Peace With Regret - Life Wisdom #56 | 15 août 2026 | 00:33:39 | |
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 always seem to have gone better than the one we are living? More resources:
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| How to become more patient ? - Daily Wisdom #59 | 11 août 2026 | 00:34:07 | |
Today we're going to sit with a frustration that lives underneath a great many abandoned projects and unfinished changes, the frustration of things that simply take time to ripen. More resources:
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| Three Taoist Treasures for an Ordinary Day - Life Wisdom #55 | 09 août 2026 | 00:31:32 | |
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 actually work, because we are usually too busy using them to evaluate them. More resources:
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| How do I truly connect with myself and the world ? - Daily Wisdom #58 | 07 août 2026 | 00:14:42 | |
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 for, to the body, the world, and the people it was meant to hand back to us, and to how we actually find our way home to them. More resources:
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| Why Am I Lonely When Surrounded? - Daily Wisdom | 06 août 2026 | 00:15:01 | |
Never in human history have we been this connected, able to reach almost anyone, instantly, at any hour, and loneliness has climbed steadily right alongside all that connection. More resources:
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| Who Owns My Attention? - Daily Wisdom | 05 août 2026 | 00:14:42 | |
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 most talented people alive, and its whole purpose is to fragment your focus and hold it, because your attention is the product being bought and sold. More resources:
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| What Am I Afraid to Miss? - Daily Wisdom | 04 août 2026 | 00:14:31 | |
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 it is really about. More resources:
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| Why Can't I Switch Off? - Daily Wisdom | 03 août 2026 | 00:14:49 | |
Over the next five days we are going to talk about disconnection, not as a punishment or a digital cleanse, but as a lost art worth recovering, the ability to unplug from the hundred streams that pull at us and reconnect to what actually matters. More resources:
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| Keeping Faith With Yourself - Taoism | 02 août 2026 | 00:30:11 | |
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. And so we try to feel our way into it. We repeat encouraging phrases. We try to believe in ourselves harder. And it does not hold, because it is built on nothing, and some honest part of us knows it is built on nothing. More resources:
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| The Life in Front of You - Daily Wisdom | 31 juil. 2026 | 00:05:18 | |
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 future, or the past, or the endless commentary running in the head. More resources:
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| Stop Filling Every Empty Space - Daily Wisdom | 30 juil. 2026 | 00:05:27 | |
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 to feel it. More resources:
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| Let the Ordinary Nourish You - Daily Wisdom | 29 juil. 2026 | 00:08:18 | |
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 the breakthrough or the trip or the rare conversation that will finally wake us up, and the ordinary is just the grey stretch we cross to get there. More resources:
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| The Courage to Want Less - Daily Wisdom | 28 juil. 2026 | 00:05:41 | |
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 measuring your worth by how much you have managed to gather. More resources:
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| When Life Becomes Too Noisy - Daily Wisdom | 27 juil. 2026 | 00:06:06 | |
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:
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| It’s okay to Start Small - Taoism | 25 juil. 2026 | 00:19:34 | |
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 ashamed when they do not. More resources:
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| How to Be Your Own Ally - Daily Wisdom | 24 juil. 2026 | 00:05:35 | |
Look at what actually happens to people who treat themselves with compassion, and you find they are not less driven but more. More resources:
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| How to Forgive Yourself - Daily Wisdom | 23 juil. 2026 | 00:06:23 | |
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 chance we let slip through our hands. More resources:
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| The Cracks We All Carry - Daily Wisdom | 22 juil. 2026 | 00:05:51 | |
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:
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| Speak to Yourself Like a Friend - Daily Wisdom | 21 juil. 2026 | 00:05:51 | |
We are fluent in kindness toward others and strangely mute in it toward ourselves. More resources:
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| Why Am I My Worst Critic? - Daily Wisdom | 20 juil. 2026 | 00:06:45 | |
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 commentary in there, and it is rarely gentle; for many of us it is a voice we would never use on a person we loved, and we aim it at ourselves without a second thought. More resources:
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| When Everything Changes - Taoism | 18 juil. 2026 | 00:18:14 | |
Beneath the ten thousand changing things, it says, there is a stillness that does not change. All things rise and flourish, each in its own season, and each in its own time returns to the place it came from.
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| Coming Home to Yourself - Daily Wisdom | 17 juil. 2026 | 00:06:40 | |
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. Coming home to yourself is the difference between living as a stranger in your own experience and living as someone who belongs there, who can turn inward and find, instead of an empty room or a courtroom, a place that is genuinely theirs. More resources:
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| How can I stay with Myself ? - Daily Wisdom | 16 juil. 2026 | 00:07:13 | |
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. To stay with yourself is gentler and far less busy than the fleeing makes us fear. It asks only that you keep the feeling company, letting it be there, noticing where it sits in the body, the tightness in the chest or the heaviness behind the eyes, without running from it and without spinning it into a story. More resources:
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| Why Do I Take Things Personally ? - Daily Wisdom | 15 juil. 2026 | 00:06:58 | |
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. To take something personally is to place yourself at the center of another person's behavior, to assume that what they did was aimed, that it carried an intention toward you and a judgment of your worth. More resources:
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| What is Mine to Carry ? - Daily Wisdom | 14 juil. 2026 | 00:08:14 | |
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. Think of how you feel walking through your own door at the end of a hard day. You are often carrying a weight that is unmistakably heavy, and yet if you stopped to sort through it, you might find that a surprising amount of it is not actually yours. More resources:
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| How to feel Closer to Myself? - Daily Wisdom | 13 juil. 2026 | 00:07:04 | |
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. We have arranged things so that we are almost never alone with ourselves, and the moment a pause opens, the phone is in the hand, a sound is filling the silence, the next task is already pulling us forward. More resources:
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| Discipline can be Soft - Taoism | 11 juil. 2026 | 00:18:39 | |
The deepest discipline is not never falling away. It is learning how to return without turning against yourself.
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| What Does Kindness Give Back? - Daily Wisdom | 10 juil. 2026 | 00:07:13 | |
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 their world, to choosing a response instead of firing off a reaction. All of it has been leaning toward one simple thing, the plain willingness to be good to another human being. So I want to end on a question we rarely stop to ask about that. What does kindness give back? More resources:
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| Respond Instead of React - Daily Wisdom | 09 juil. 2026 | 00:07:59 | |
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 before a single clear thought has formed, the heat is already up and the sharp reply is already writing itself. You hit send, or you say it aloud, and some part of you knows even as it happens that this is not your best self talking. It is fast, it feels like honesty, and it is often the least wise version of you that exists. More resources:
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| Can I See Through Another's Eyes ? - Daily Wisdom | 08 juil. 2026 | 00:07:50 | |
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 ones we are still hoping for. A word that means nothing to you can land on someone's oldest wound, and a small kindness you barely noticed can be the thing that holds their whole day together. More resources:
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| How Can I Listen Better? - Daily Wisdom | 07 juil. 2026 | 00:11:32 | |
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 would never enter a conversation hoping to miss what the other person is trying to say. More resources:
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| Am I Seeing the Whole Story? - Daily Wisdom | 06 juil. 2026 | 00:07:35 | |
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 arrives feeling like simple fact. More resources:
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| How to Live a Softer Life - Taoism | 04 juil. 2026 | 00:22:44 | |
We nearly always confuse strength with hardness, and gentleness with weakness.
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| Let Today Be Enough - Daily Wisdom | 03 juil. 2026 | 00:09:49 | |
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 striking is how often the verdict is a small no, even after a day that was full. More resources:
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| The Pace That Belongs to You - Daily Wisdom | 02 juil. 2026 | 00:09:00 | |
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 how to say we are busy, stretched, behind. What we rarely learn to name is something quieter and more corrosive: the fatigue of moving, for years, at a rhythm that was never ours. More resources:
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| When Life Moves Slower than Wanted | 01 juil. 2026 | 00:12:29 | |
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 thing we want is delayed, when healing takes longer, when a project grows slowly, when clarity arrives in fragments, when change happens unevenly, slowness can begin to feel like resistance. It can feel as if life is withholding something from us. More resources:
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| What Are You Saving Time For? - Daily Wisdom | 30 juin 2026 | 00:11:48 | |
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, waste time, invest time. These expressions are useful, and in some ways they are true. Time matters. It is limited. The way we use our days shapes the life we eventually live. More resources:
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| Not Everything is a Deadline - Daily Wisdom | 29 juin 2026 | 00:09:46 | |
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, save it, optimize it, measure it. But we may have forgotten how to actually live inside it without turning every hour into a test. More resources:
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