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

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 hi@wyn.studio 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