We have to reclaim the importance of internal wisdom, or being willing to do the hard work of reflection and self-examination internally rather than just looking to external sources — whether it...

Today we’re going to be exploring chapter 46, which takes up the theme of contentment and discontentment from the last two chapters but frames it in the context of the nations and their military...

Chapters 44 and 45 are all about contentment. The former provides a litany of rhetorical questions that prompt us to rethink what really matters in life, and the latter lays out a vision of a very...

Chapter 42 gives us a relatively practical look at the characteristics of a leader. The vision Lao Tzu sets up here is incredibly Christlike.