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  • As Lao-tzu taught us, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one single step."

    Mike Robbins: What We CAN Change Mike Robbins 2010

  • Another prominent fifth century thinker was the philosopher Lao-tzu who wrote, If you tell me, I will listen.

    Jenifer Fox: Education, What are we Talking About? Jenifer Fox 2010

  • This delightful chapbook proffers a puckish twofer: a whimsically learned defense of indolence and flaneurship — waged by scouring the philosophical/literary quiver and loosing darts of Schopenhauer, Byron, Bataille, Waugh, Lao-tzu, and others at that ageless bromide of the strong work ethic — and an engagingly etymological lexicon of loafing, past and present.

    Cover to Cover 2009

  • In China, Confucius promoted social harmony through the ethical action of individuals, and Lao-tzu drew from ancient ideals and nature to find peace in the dynamic balance of opposites characteristic of Taoism.

    Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D.: International Cyrus The Great Day: Common Ground For World Religions? Ph.D. Kristin M. Swenson 2011

  • This delightful chapbook proffers a puckish twofer: a whimsically learned defense of indolence and flaneurship — waged by scouring the philosophical/literary quiver and loosing darts of Schopenhauer, Byron, Bataille, Waugh, Lao-tzu, and others at that ageless bromide of the strong work ethic — and an engagingly etymological lexicon of loafing, past and present.

    Cover to Cover 2009

  • Another prominent fifth century thinker was the philosopher Lao-tzu who wrote, If you tell me, I will listen.

    Jenifer Fox: Education, What are we Talking About? Jenifer Fox 2010

  • Lao-tzu, the sixth-century B.C. master whose Tao te Ching is still a classic, wrote long ago: "The highest good is like water, for the good of water is that it nourishes without striving."

    Brenda Peterson: The Water Way and the Tsunami Brenda Peterson 2011

  • Lao-tzu, the sixth-century B.C. master whose Tao te Ching is still a classic, wrote long ago: "The highest good is like water, for the good of water is that it nourishes without striving."

    Brenda Peterson: The Water Way and the Tsunami Brenda Peterson 2011

  • When schools became organized (around the tenth century), the methods of Socrates and Lao-tzu were laid to rest in exchange for a method that maintained that students are "empty vessels" and that the teacher can "pour" knowledge into them.

    Jenifer Fox: Education, What are we Talking About? Jenifer Fox 2010

  • In China, Confucius promoted social harmony through the ethical action of individuals, and Lao-tzu drew from ancient ideals and nature to find peace in the dynamic balance of opposites characteristic of Taoism.

    Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D.: International Cyrus The Great Day: Common Ground For World Religions? Ph.D. Kristin M. Swenson 2011

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