Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“if I repent of anything,it is very likely to be my good behavior… Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”

Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862 CE
Father of environmentalism and America's first yogi
from Walden or Life in the Woods

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Chapters

Chapter 18
The Sick Society

Themes

Moral Freedom

Idiot Compassion