There are a few books that I reread every year as they provide perspectives on how to live one’s life. One is Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. The other is Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, written over 2,500 years ago.
The title – Tao Te Ching – can be translated literally as “way, powerful, classic.” The title is interpreted as meaning this is a “classic text about the way and its power.” Tao can be translated as “way.” The concept of identifying a “way” to live one’s life has been used by many teachers, notably 500 years later by Jesus.
Over the past week I’ve enjoyed making a list of 7 insights from Tao Te Ching on how to live life well. The first is, “What is rooted is easy to nourish.”
Life grows from what is rooted. And once roots take hold then they are prepared and ready to be nourished. Our choice and opportunity in life is to choose what we will root. Because the opposite is also true, what is not rooted is difficult to nourish and therefore unlikely to grow.
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