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Before and After ~ Stephen Mitchell’s Second Book of the Dao

Written by Patrick on August 14, 2010 - 2 Comments
Categories: Books, Insight, Non-Fiction, Poems, Spirituality

I was digging into Stephen Mitchell’s The Second Book of the Dao one day back in January (over a lovely Red Snapper Soup @ Granville Island) when a passage in the second chapter inspired the following poem. Before and After Before sorrow, longing Before longing, anger Before anger, pain Before pain, injury Before injury, fear [...]

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The second book of The Way ~ Stephen Mitchell illuminates the Tao again.

Written by Patrick on May 31, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: ...a quote, Books, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Spirituality

Mmmmm… a day of cloudy wet so a retreat into a tub of hot water with salsa & tortilla chips and a good book about one of my favourite subjects, Stephen Mitchell’s The Second Book of the Tao (Dao, Tao, same thing, same pronunciation: Dao). Hmmmm… the liner notes of this book explain that the [...]

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We’re too good to be this political ~ Be the change you want to see in the world

Written by Patrick on May 29, 2010 - 15 Comments
Categories: Insight, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Political, Social, Spirituality, Stories

My first mistake today was climbing into the bathtub and picking up the May 31st, 2010 edition of Canada’s weekly news magazine, Macleans, rather than the copy of Stephen Mitchell’s The Second Book of the Tao, in which I’d thought to have a nice, long spiritual soak along with the hot water, and possibly bubbles. [...]

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