Timeless Wisdom on Life from Tao Te Ching with Author Jessie Kanzer: TIT126

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Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text that offers wisdom on how to live life with goodness and integrity. Jessie Kanzer and I discuss several verses of this text on the definition of love, the concept of being and not-being, letting go of self-expectation vulnerability and more. Jessie Kanzer is an Author, Actor and former reporter. Her work has appeared in Washington Post, NYT, Huffington Post among others. She is the author of a new book, Don't Just Sit There, DO NOTHING: Healing, Chilling and Living with Tao Te Ching We now have a telegram community for our listeners. Join here- https://theinspiringtalk.com/telegram For brand collaborations and opportunities, send us an email at [email protected] Read full episode notes at https://theinspiringtalk.com/126 Send me a voice message: https://theinspiringtalk.com/speak Connect with Jessie Kanzer:

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Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

02:25 What is Tao Te Ching and why it is a powerful text?

07:49 Meaning of Stillness and Doing Nothing

12:01 Concept of being and not-being

15:08 Life is a dance of shadows

18:16 Understanding our Human-self and Higher-self

20:44 How to deal with Perfectionism?

24:20 Vulnerability and Becoming yourself

26:45 Dealing with "I am not enough"

30:55 Most beautiful definition of love

37:28 Letting go of self-expectation

39:30 Expectations in romantic relationships

43:25 Be like water!

47:30 Jessie's new book

53:00 Jessie's most important lesson

54:00 Outro