Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it. Stephen Mitchell's translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way) has sold over half a millio[...]

Subtitled 'A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way', this is a richly poetic version of the Taoist classic.[...]