
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
by Wayne W. Dyer
Dyer spent a year with the Tao Te Ching and wrote an essay on each of its eighty-one verses, with a practice for each. It is a devotional rather than a scholarly book and one of the gentlest ways into Lao Tzu for Western readers.
Read it if…
you want the Tao Te Ching with a warm guide.
Skip it if…
you want a rigorous translation; this is interpretation.
Three things you will actually use
- Let go and the thing you grasped often arrives.
- Live by the water's way: low, soft, persistent.
- Lead by stepping back.
Do this first
Read one verse and its essay each day for eighty-one days.
Our verdict
Lao Tzu with a warm guide.
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