Life Wisdom - By Words of Taoism
Words of Taoism·Hosted by Chen Li·57 episodes
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.
Why listen
Life Wisdom - By Words of Taoism offers calm, reflective essays rooted in Taoist ideas about timing, letting go, simplicity, gratitude, and inner peace. Episodes feel like guided contemplations, with meditative storytelling and gentle practical prompts rather than debate or doctrine. It is a good fit for listeners who want a quiet spiritual reset during a walk, commute, or evening wind-down.
Episodes
Welcome back to daily wisdom. There is a story I imagine often. A small bird lives in a garden, and every morning, before singing, it looks toward the other trees. It hears the nightingale and thinks its own song is too simple. It sees the swan crossing the pond and thinks its own body is too ordinary. It watches the eagle above the hills and thinks its own wings have failed because they do not carry it so high.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, we begin a new movement in the series. After looking at control, pressure, acceptance, responsibility, and the unknown, we now turn toward something more intimate: the way we relate to ourselves from the inside.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
There is a force in us without which nothing would ever be done. It moves us to begin, to build, to love, to hope. It carries us out ahead of ourselves, toward what does not yet exist and what we long to see come into being. We call this force desire. Without it, we would stay still, watching the world go by, never once taking part in it.Welcome back to Life Wisdom, hosted by Substack bestseller author Chen Li, from Words of Taoism.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to daily wisdom.A person who admits they do not know yet is not necessarily lost. They may simply be refusing to lie to themselves for the comfort of an immediate answer.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to daily wisdom.A tree can offer shade, fruit, and shelter. Birds can rest in its branches. People can sit beneath it. The tree gives generously, yet it remains rooted in the earth. It is held while it holds. Its strength comes from receiving as much as giving.Many of us try to be trees without roots.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to daily wisdom.Acceptance can sound like a cold word when the heart is still hurting. It can sound as if we are being asked to approve of what happened, to pretend it does not matter, to become peaceful before we are ready. Many of us resist acceptance because we think it means saying that what hurt us was okay.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to daily wisdom.This week, I would like us to follow a simple thread: the places in our lives where care slowly becomes tension.Because many of us are not exhausted only because we do too much. We are exhausted because of the way we do it. We try to work well, but we carry the work like a test of our worth. We try to love well, but we become afraid of disappointing. We try to grow, but we turn growth into pressure.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.In the last few episodes, we have been circling around the same quiet difficulty from different angles: the way we try to keep life safe by thinking more, doing more, rushing more, proving more, holding more. And today, I want to sit with a question that is at the center of many of our struggles, even when we do not always name it directly.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
I’ve been thinking about a strange pattern many of us know: the closer we get to rest, the harder we push ourselves.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to daily wisdom.Think about what happens when you finally have a free afternoon. The kind that arrives unplanned, when a meeting cancels or a task finishes early. For most of us, the first reaction is not relief. It is unease.The Taoist sages would have recognized this anxiety immediately. They wrote often about the danger of excessive doing, of constant striving, of treating one's own life like a problem to be solved.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This is a series of short reflections for the questions we often carry quietly, without always knowing how to answer them.Today, let's sit with this question together: how do we find peace in a busy day?More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.Most of us assume that courage is the opposite of fear. That to begin something new, we need to feel ready, certain, confident. We tell ourselves that when the conditions are right, when the noise quiets, when the season feels less heavy, then we will begin.But anyone who has actually started something will tell you the truth is stranger than that.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome to Daily Wisdom.There is something in nature that understands what many of us forget: not everything becomes ready at the same speed. Some things need another season before their sweetness can appear. And yet, when it comes to our own lives, we often speak to ourselves as if ripening were failure.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome to Daily Wisdom.This is a series of twenty short reflections built around questions I often receive in comments, hear in conversations, or recognize in the struggles of everyday life.For the next four weeks, I want this series to be a small daily companion. Something you can listen to in the morning, during a walk, before sleep, or in one of those in-between moments when you feel a little far from yourself.And today, we begin with a question many of us know too well: How to stop overthinking?More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
How much of what you carry truly belongs to you?Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
The inner voice beneath the noise.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Returning to the body that knows means listening to what remembers within us.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
What is sown at night bears fruit in the morning.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
What ripens should not be rushed.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Being aware in the middle of the noise.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Sometimes, it's fewer shoots but deeper roots.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Happiness Begins with Gratitude.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Make room for your identity to change.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
What if your fatigue is caused by a pace that isn't right for you in the first place ?Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
The renewal of spring reminds us of the importance of introspection.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
To regain clarity in our relationship with time.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Taking a step back often allows you to see things more clearly and make choices that are better suited to you.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Progress can be soft, steady, and still real.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Time alone is a precious commodity that connects all aspects of your life.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Sometimes, the best option is to let go in order to better return to oneself.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
An invitation to explore another way of changingFree resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
There is a time that cannot be shortened.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Lightening your weight allows you to be more welcoming.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
A new year opens up new paths.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Everything happens at the right time.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
We often fail to see what is right in front of our eyes.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
The Temptation of Anger.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Have an open heart to the world and to life.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
When Life feels Overcrowded.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Calmness is the source of a fertile mind.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
When desires have no end.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
How can we find peace amid noise?Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
The Temptation of AngerFree resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
What seems simple requires the greatest attention.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Emerging from the daily fog.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Find your own pace.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Do, without forgetting yourself.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Become free again from what holds you back.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Really take time for yourself.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
Balance is often found at the end of an uncertain path.Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/My Substack bestseller blog https://taoismteachings.substack.com/
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