But regardless of this and the potential limits of its applicability, the concepts suggested by Taoism are filled with rich insights that provide worthy, useful counterweights to the more common, brutish ways of mind and culture that make us think that things must always be a different way or must go one’s own way for it to be the right way, that there must always be some better ideal around the corner that isn’t or couldn’t be in this moment right now, and that one needs to seek or strive for what they already have and know.
