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Stop wrestling the world into submission. Pay attention. Listen. Let things ripen. Act when action is needed, and don’t mistake control for wisdom.

Taoist emptiness has a similar quality. One of the most famous passages in the Tao Te Ching says that a wheel is useful because of the empty hub at it

It can’t be “just stuff” because human beings don’t live among bare objects. We live among meanings.

Western philosophy often depicts thinking as an active operation: defining, analysing, representing, categorising, calculating, and reaching conclusio

Most people’s mental models of energy are flawed: they think there’s a ‘tank’ of energy that gets depleted as you spend it. This may be roughly true f