The best thing about hitting 50 as a Taoist… I finally now have crossed the line into being a teenager. Nothing like teaching a practice that feels everyone should shoot for 150. I am a 1/3rd of the way there!…
One of my best friends passed away today. Sometimes tears are the best pillow. True friends never pass, they merely go to rest in your heart later in life. rest deeply my friend, rest deeply.
The fire of our spirit: Heart, Kindness, Love, Compassion and Acceptance… All blaze upon how we share and use these concepts rather than hide or hoard them. This truth forms a strong spiritual practice, none of it is a secret….
Where do we find heart? Lesson: It is how we hold something that defines heart more than if it were a living beating heart. Hold this truth to help improve the world around you. Heart has many definitions which is…
I have been quietly helping people work through mid life crisis for the last decade. When I started, it was amazing because so many people denied mid life crisis even existed, that it was merely an excuse to act like…
Another blogger Leon wrote a larger and good post on life observations which included this line It is difficult to understand why we are here on this planet. Immediately I thought the following: We are here to be ourselves no…
It’s been a busy month. I have been answering far more emails of late for seekers looking for place. We have a saying in the Taoist tradition: The hermit lives in a cave The great hermit lives in the city….
Why this blog? Why A Personal Tao? As a Taoist, I spent most of my life hidden and as a hermit. Most people never saw my practice or the depths to which I practiced it. Taoist’s do not go out…