Life Wisdom - By Words of Taoism
Words of Taoism
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Life Wisdom is a podcast inspired by Taoist teachings, offering guidance on mindfulness and inner peace. Each episode features meditative storytelling, simple practices, and deep reflections to help you reconnect with the present moment. Brought to you by Substack bestseller author Chen Li, from the blog Words of Taoism.
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It's Okay to Spend Time Alone - Taoism - Life Wisdom #61 19.09.2026 20min"Alone" is a word we use every day that has changed its meaning under us, and I would like to spend some time with it, because the change explains a great deal about why so many of us feel the way we feel.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist -
When is the Right Timing ? - Daily Wisdom #64 - Taoism 16.09.2026 21minToday I want to talk about timing. About the sense, which some people seem to have and most of us feel we lack, of when to act and when to wait, when to speak and when to hold back, when a thing is ready and when it needs more time.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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The Need To Be Understood - Life Wisdom #60 - Taoism 12.09.2026 24minBeing understood is one of the ways we feel close to another person. There is a particular ease in knowing someone can see the intention behind an awkward sentence, or recognise tiredness in a silence that might otherwise look cold. Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Let a Good Moment be Enough - Daily Wisdom #63 08.09.2026 23minWatch what the mind does with happiness. It rarely just takes it.I want to be careful here, because it would be easy to describe all that as a failure of presence and leave you feeling you have been doing joy incorrectly. That is not what is happening.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Not Everything Is Meant to Stay - Life Wisdom #59 - Taoism 06.09.2026 27minI want to talk about the story we tell ourselves when something ends. And about the fact that almost all of us have only one story available, and it is a story about failure.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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The Beginner's Mind - Life Wisdom #62 01.09.2026 19minIn the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Making Room For Your Self - Life Wisdom #58 - Taoism 29.08.2026 19minMost of us have promised ourselves, at some point, that we would live more simply.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Why Do I Need to Be Liked? - Daily Wisdom #61 24.08.2026 29minToday I'd like to talk with you about something almost everyone treats as a weakness, and which I think has been badly misunderstood: the fact that we care, often a great deal, about what other people think of us.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Why Receiving Feels So Hard - Life Wisdom #57 22.08.2026 20minSomewhere along the way, most of us start keeping score of what passes between us and other people. And in that accounting, a gift or a compliment shows up as a debt. Debts are uncomfortable, so we settle them fast. Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Alan Watts and the Backwards Law - Daily Wisdom #60 17.08.2026 23minToday, we're going to look at a reversal at the heart of how effort works: the fact that some things retreat from us precisely because we are reaching for them.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Making Peace With Regret - Life Wisdom #56 15.08.2026 33minThe question I would like us to sit with is a simple one, and I suspect it has visited almost everyone listening. Why does the life we did not live always seem to have gone better than the one we are living?More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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How to become more patient ? - Daily Wisdom #59 11.08.2026 34minToday we're going to sit with a frustration that lives underneath a great many abandoned projects and unfinished changes, the frustration of things that simply take time to ripen.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Three Taoist Treasures for an Ordinary Day - Life Wisdom #55 09.08.2026 31minWhat do you reach for when things get difficult?We all have our tools and we carry them everywhere. But most of us have never once asked whether they actually work, because we are usually too busy using them to evaluate them.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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How do I truly connect with myself and the world ? - Daily Wisdom #58 07.08.2026 14minAll week we have been pulling the plug on the things that keep us scattered and half-present. Today we finally turn to what all that unplugging was for, to the body, the world, and the people it was meant to hand back to us, and to how we actually find our way home to them.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Why Am I Lonely When Surrounded? - Daily Wisdom 06.08.2026 15minNever in human history have we been this connected, able to reach almost anyone, instantly, at any hour, and loneliness has climbed steadily right alongside all that connection.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Who Owns My Attention? - Daily Wisdom 05.08.2026 14minYour attention is not only wandering off on its own. It is being taken. There is now an entire economy built on capturing it, staffed by some of the most talented people alive, and its whole purpose is to fragment your focus and hold it, because your attention is the product being bought and sold.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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What Am I Afraid to Miss? - Daily Wisdom 04.08.2026 14minToday we go after one of the buried ones, the fear that keeps us checking, reaching, and saying yes when we mean no: the fear of missing out, and what it is really about.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Why Can't I Switch Off? - Daily Wisdom 03.08.2026 14minOver the next five days we are going to talk about disconnection, not as a punishment or a digital cleanse, but as a lost art worth recovering, the ability to unplug from the hundred streams that pull at us and reconnect to what actually matters.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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Keeping Faith With Yourself - Taoism 02.08.2026 30minWe are told, constantly, that trusting yourself is a feeling. That confident people simply have more of it, some inner certainty the rest of us lack. And so we try to feel our way into it. We repeat encouraging phrases. We try to believe in ourselves harder. And it does not hold, because it is built on nothing, and some honest part of us knows it is built on nothing.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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The Life in Front of You - Daily Wisdom 31.07.2026 5minWelcome back to Daily Wisdom.The life in front of you unfolds in real time, once, and a great deal of the time we are not there for it, off in the future, or the past, or the endless commentary running in the head.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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