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Finding Your Own Pace - Life Wisdom #68
31 oktober 2026 · 22 min
This episode is about that habit of haste, which settles so deeply into the body that we stop noticing it, and about the possibility of finding again a pace that belongs to us. Lees meer
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Enjoying Your Own Company - Daily Wisdom #69
27 oktober 2026 · 21 min
Someone who has learned to enjoy their own company comes to others with less hunger, without needing them to fill every silence, reassure every doubt or entertain every evening. Lees meer
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You Are Worth Hearing - Life Wisdom #67
24 oktober 2026 · 22 min
You can feel invisible in an empty flat, and you can feel it far more sharply at a crowded family table, among the very people who are supposed to know you best. Lees meer
This episode is about that second kind of invisibility, which settles into long marriages, old friendships and families.
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Loving People as They Are - Daily Wisdom #68
21 oktober 2026 · 22 min
Change can happen in a relationship, by a road that starts on our own side of it. Lees meer
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Be patient with Life - Life Wisdom #66
17 oktober 2026 · 21 min
Impatience has become so ordinary in this way of living that we hardly recognise it any more, and it passes for the normal speed of life. Lees meer
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The Way to Inner Peace - Daily Wisdom #67
14 oktober 2026 · 21 min
Inner peace is not an external calm that must be achieved by eliminating storms. It is like water that settles on its own when we stop stirring it. The wise show us what stirs it, and how that agitation can subside. Lees meer
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Living With Grief - Life Wisdom #65
10 oktober 2026 · 27 min
This episode is about grief, about what it does to us and how we can make our way through it, and also about how we can stand beside those who are living through it. Lees meer
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Worrying Less About Tomorrow - Daily Wisdom #66
7 oktober 2026 · 20 min
When we dread the future, we assume that the sky might fall, and we also assume that we know what would be good for us and what would be bad. Lees meer
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You Are More Than Useful - Life Wisdom #64 - Taoism
3 oktober 2026 · 21 min
When two people meet for the first time, the first thing they exchange is a name, and the second, almost always, is a question: so, what do you do? Lees meer
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Living in the Present Moment - Life Wisdom #63
30 september 2026 · 25 min
Zhuangzi tells the story of a man who was so troubled by his own shadow, and by the sound of his own footsteps, that he decided to get away from them for good. Lees meer
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The path to a simpler life - Life Wisdom #62
26 september 2026 · 20 min
A life left to itself grows the way an unpruned tree grows, in every direction at once, and it is rarely anyone's fault. Lees meer
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On Feeling Grateful - Daily Wisdom #65
23 september 2026 · 20 min
We are very good at giving thanks and surprisingly bad at feeling grateful, and that gap is worth sitting with, because we tend to assume that the words and the feeling are the same thing at two different volumes, when they turn out to be different kinds of thing altogether. Lees meer
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It's Okay to Spend Time Alone - Taoism - Life Wisdom #61
19 september 2026 · 20 min
"Alone" is a word we use every day that has changed its meaning under us, and I would like to spend some time with it, because the change explains a great deal about why so many of us feel the way we feel. Lees meer
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The Right Timing - Daily Wisdom #64 - Taoism
16 september 2026 · 22 min
Today I want to talk about timing. About the sense, which some people seem to have and most of us feel we lack, of when to act and when to wait, when to speak and when to hold back, when a thing is ready and when it needs more time. Lees meer
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The Need To Be Understood - Life Wisdom #60 - Taoism
12 september 2026 · 25 min
Being understood is one of the ways we feel close to another person. There is a particular ease in knowing someone can see the intention behind an awkward sentence, or recognise tiredness in a silence that might otherwise look cold. Lees meer
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Let a Good Moment be Enough - Daily Wisdom #63
8 september 2026 · 24 min
Watch what the mind does with happiness. It rarely just takes it. Lees meer
I want to be careful here, because it would be easy to describe all that as a failure of presence and leave you feeling you have been doing joy incorrectly. That is not what is happening.
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Not Everything Is Meant to Stay - Life Wisdom #59 - Taoism
6 september 2026 · 28 min
I want to talk about the story we tell ourselves when something ends. And about the fact that almost all of us have only one story available, and it is a story about failure. Lees meer
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The Beginner's Mind - Life Wisdom #62
1 september 2026 · 20 min
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few. Lees meer
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Making Room For Your Self - Life Wisdom #58 - Taoism
30 augustus 2026 · 19 min
Most of us have promised ourselves, at some point, that we would live more simply. Lees meer
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Why Do I Need to Be Liked? - Daily Wisdom #61
24 augustus 2026 · 30 min
Today I'd like to talk with you about something almost everyone treats as a weakness, and which I think has been badly misunderstood: the fact that we care, often a great deal, about what other people think of us. Lees meer
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Why Receiving Feels So Hard - Life Wisdom #57
22 augustus 2026 · 21 min
Somewhere along the way, most of us start keeping score of what passes between us and other people. And in that accounting, a gift or a compliment shows up as a debt. Debts are uncomfortable, so we settle them fast. Lees meer
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Alan Watts and the Backwards Law - Daily Wisdom #60
17 augustus 2026 · 23 min
Today, we're going to look at a reversal at the heart of how effort works: the fact that some things retreat from us precisely because we are reaching for them. Lees meer
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Making Peace With Regret - Life Wisdom #56
15 augustus 2026 · 34 min
The question I would like us to sit with is a simple one, and I suspect it has visited almost everyone listening. Why does the life we did not live always seem to have gone better than the one we are living? Lees meer
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How to become more patient ? - Daily Wisdom #59
11 augustus 2026 · 34 min
Today we're going to sit with a frustration that lives underneath a great many abandoned projects and unfinished changes, the frustration of things that simply take time to ripen. Lees meer
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Three Taoist Treasures for an Ordinary Day - Life Wisdom #55
9 augustus 2026 · 32 min
What do you reach for when things get difficult? Lees meer
We all have our tools and we carry them everywhere. But most of us have never once asked whether they actually work, because we are usually too busy using them to evaluate them.
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How do I truly connect with myself and the world ? - Daily Wisdom #58
7 augustus 2026 · 15 min
All week we have been pulling the plug on the things that keep us scattered and half-present. Today we finally turn to what all that unplugging was for, to the body, the world, and the people it was meant to hand back to us, and to how we actually find our way home to them. Lees meer
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Why Am I Lonely When Surrounded? - Daily Wisdom
6 augustus 2026 · 15 min
Never in human history have we been this connected, able to reach almost anyone, instantly, at any hour, and loneliness has climbed steadily right alongside all that connection. Lees meer
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Who Owns My Attention? - Daily Wisdom
5 augustus 2026 · 15 min
Your attention is not only wandering off on its own. It is being taken. There is now an entire economy built on capturing it, staffed by some of the most talented people alive, and its whole purpose is to fragment your focus and hold it, because your attention is the product being bought and sold. Lees meer
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What Am I Afraid to Miss? - Daily Wisdom
4 augustus 2026 · 15 min
Today we go after one of the buried ones, the fear that keeps us checking, reaching, and saying yes when we mean no: the fear of missing out, and what it is really about. Lees meer
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Why Can't I Switch Off? - Daily Wisdom
3 augustus 2026 · 15 min
Over the next five days we are going to talk about disconnection, not as a punishment or a digital cleanse, but as a lost art worth recovering, the ability to unplug from the hundred streams that pull at us and reconnect to what actually matters. Lees meer
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Keeping Faith With Yourself - Taoism
2 augustus 2026 · 30 min
We are told, constantly, that trusting yourself is a feeling. That confident people simply have more of it, some inner certainty the rest of us lack. And so we try to feel our way into it. We repeat encouraging phrases. We try to believe in ourselves harder. And it does not hold, because it is built on nothing, and some honest part of us knows it is built on nothing. Lees meer
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The Life in Front of You - Daily Wisdom
31 juli 2026 · 5 min
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. Lees meer
The life in front of you unfolds in real time, once, and a great deal of the time we are not there for it, off in the future, or the past, or the endless commentary running in the head.
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Stop Filling Every Empty Space - Daily Wisdom
30 juli 2026 · 5 min
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We carry a low, constant discomfort with the void, and we have arranged much of modern life so that we never quite have to feel it.
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Let the Ordinary Nourish You - Daily Wisdom
29 juli 2026 · 8 min
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We tend to treat ordinary life as the waiting room for the real thing. Real life, we imagine, is somewhere further on, in the breakthrough or the trip or the rare conversation that will finally wake us up, and the ordinary is just the grey stretch we cross to get there.
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The Courage to Want Less - Daily Wisdom
28 juli 2026 · 6 min
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To want less is to step off an escalator that everyone around you is riding upward, to risk looking unambitious, to stop measuring your worth by how much you have managed to gather.
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When Life Becomes Too Noisy - Daily Wisdom
27 juli 2026 · 6 min
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When life becomes too loud, the first thing to go missing is the sound of our own life.
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It’s okay to Start Small - Taoism
25 juli 2026 · 20 min
Nothing arrives in the world at full size. Nothing. And yet when we imagine our own beginnings, we picture them arriving at full size, and then we are ashamed when they do not. Lees meer
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How to Be Your Own Ally - Daily Wisdom
24 juli 2026 · 6 min
Look at what actually happens to people who treat themselves with compassion, and you find they are not less driven but more. Lees meer
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How to Forgive Yourself - Daily Wisdom
23 juli 2026 · 6 min
We carry a private grudge against ourselves, sometimes for years, sometimes for decades, over a betrayal, a failure, a way we hurt someone we loved, a chance we let slip through our hands. Lees meer
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The Cracks We All Carry - Daily Wisdom
22 juli 2026 · 6 min
Behind every composed surface is a person with their own fears and failures and regrets, their own parts they pray no one will ever see. Lees meer
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Speak to Yourself Like a Friend - Daily Wisdom
21 juli 2026 · 6 min
We are fluent in kindness toward others and strangely mute in it toward ourselves. Lees meer
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Why Am I My Worst Critic? - Daily Wisdom
20 juli 2026 · 7 min
Notice, for a moment, how you speak to yourself on a bad day, after a mistake, a failure, something you are ashamed of. There is usually a running commentary in there, and it is rarely gentle; for many of us it is a voice we would never use on a person we loved, and we aim it at ourselves without a second thought. Lees meer
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When Everything Changes - Taoism
18 juli 2026 · 18 min
Beneath the ten thousand changing things, it says, there is a stillness that does not change. All things rise and flourish, each in its own season, and each in its own time returns to the place it came from. Lees meer
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Coming Home to Yourself - Daily Wisdom
17 juli 2026 · 7 min
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. Lees meer
Coming home to yourself is the difference between living as a stranger in your own experience and living as someone who belongs there, who can turn inward and find, instead of an empty room or a courtroom, a place that is genuinely theirs.
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How can I stay with Myself ? - Daily Wisdom
16 juli 2026 · 7 min
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To stay with yourself is gentler and far less busy than the fleeing makes us fear. It asks only that you keep the feeling company, letting it be there, noticing where it sits in the body, the tightness in the chest or the heaviness behind the eyes, without running from it and without spinning it into a story.
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Why Do I Take Things Personally ? - Daily Wisdom
15 juli 2026 · 7 min
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To take something personally is to place yourself at the center of another person's behavior, to assume that what they did was aimed, that it carried an intention toward you and a judgment of your worth.
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What is Mine to Carry ? - Daily Wisdom
14 juli 2026 · 8 min
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Think of how you feel walking through your own door at the end of a hard day. You are often carrying a weight that is unmistakably heavy, and yet if you stopped to sort through it, you might find that a surprising amount of it is not actually yours.
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How to feel Closer to Myself? - Daily Wisdom
13 juli 2026 · 7 min
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We have arranged things so that we are almost never alone with ourselves, and the moment a pause opens, the phone is in the hand, a sound is filling the silence, the next task is already pulling us forward.
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Discipline can be Soft - Taoism
11 juli 2026 · 19 min
The deepest discipline is not never falling away. It is learning how to return without turning against yourself. Lees meer
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What Does Kindness Give Back? - Daily Wisdom
10 juli 2026 · 7 min
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We have moved from seeing more of another person's story, to listening past their words, to imagining our way into their world, to choosing a response instead of firing off a reaction. All of it has been leaning toward one simple thing, the plain willingness to be good to another human being. So I want to end on a question we rarely stop to ask about that.
What does kindness give back?
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