Diane Dreher PhD - The Tao of Inner Peace

The Tao...

Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te Ching over twenty-five centuries ago as a handbook for leaders. In ancient China, to lead wisely meant to live wisely, to seek personal balance and integration with the cycles of nature. Lao Tzus teachings assume special importance to us today as we seek peace of mind for ourselves and new patterns of peace for our world. As we search for harmony in everything from holistic health, psychology, and physics to ecology, politics, the workplace, our homes, relationships, and the patterns of our lives, many people are finding in the Tao Te Ching a vital path to peace.

from the Introduction

This unusual self-help book... is filled with anecdotes, questions to stimulate discussion, guidelines for change, exercises to promote positive peacefulness, with lots of Tao philosophy scattered throughout supporting each phase of [Drehers] plan... Her chapters on working toward outer peace are especially enlighteningfor short-term conflict management as well as world peace.

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Especially important are [Drehers] examples of individual action and her many annotations... her lessons are quite useful. This is an important subject... and one that promises to bring a renewal of environmental consciousness.

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