Tao Te Ching

""Wisdom distilled to its purest form. The oldest books often have the best answers to the oldest questions.""

"Naval Ravikant tweeted about this book."

"Jason Ferruggia recommended this book on Twitter."

"These are some good ones- plus Essentialism, Tao te Ching, Striking Thoughts, Meditations"

"Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post."

"The author's depth of teachings are complicated to decode and provide foundations for wisdom."

"I find those verses which were the sole output of this philosopher to be remarkably right on."

"Once you get to a certain level, it’s like, wow."

"Inspired my study of softness and receptivity as a counterpoint to my mad passions."

"Oftentimes before meditation, I’ll just open Tao Te Ching randomly to a page and read about something and then just have that be what I steep in as I sit."

"Always what you need to read at that particular period of time. It’s a magic book, in that way, in that it always fits."

"Hugely just unbelievable deep."

"One of Jack Dorsey's answers to "what are the books that had a major influence on you?"

"I remember reading it and being like okay, this makes no sense. But you just keep reading it again and again and slowly, I started to get the point of it."