Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey (Hardback)

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UK Kirkus review

This age-old Taoist text appears here with a new selection of ancient Chinese paintings alongside Mitchell's definitive translation. For anyone who has never read the Tao Te Ching before, this is a superb introduction, with the simplicity of the paintings masking their profundity, and mirroring the reader's response to the text. 'Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water/ Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible nothing can surpass it' wrote Tzu, 500 years before the birth of Christ. The book is full of such paradoxes, designed to enable the reader to see the world from a different perspective, and to let go of daily cares and worries. While not everyone would agree with its dualist undertones, there ar plenty of wise words here. (Kirkus UK)

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