Jake Welch @jakewelch

https://jakewel.ch, Brooklyn

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True goodness is like water.

  • Bringing benefit and giving life to the 10,000 things.
  • It doesn’t compete but like the Tao
  • Immediately flows to the lowest place.
  • Everyone else always wants to be first
  • But the wise only want to be last,
  • To live on solid ground,
  • To think deeply,
  • To be gentle and kind,
  • To speak with honesty,
  • To govern with peace and order,
  • To work with skill,
  • To act at only the best time

Supreme good is like water.

  • Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict.
  • It flows through places that people loathe.
  • Thereby it is close to the Way.
  • A good dwelling is on the ground.
  • A good mind is deep.
  • A good gift is kind.
  • A good word is sincere.
  • A good ruler is just.
  • A good worker is able.
  • A good deed is timely.
  • Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.

ways i stay grounded

  • keep a morning routine
  • read difficult yet rewarding novels
  • avoid algorithms
  • sacrifice comfort
  • write out observations
  • consider how things are connected
  • notice how big and open the sky is
  • relinquish all hate
  • seek to understand everyone with compassion
  • embrace silence
  • honor things made with skill and craft
  • allow troubles to flow over me like water

4 favorite things

  • human connection
  • figuring out how things work
  • self-actualization through learning
  • cultivating peace