Gregory Ripley

Mar 25, 2024 | innerself.com | Gregory Ripley |Pierre Pradervand |Vicky Oliver |Jennifer Weeks

Image by Gerd Altmann Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self. In order to create change, we must pay attention... to our thoughts, to our actions, and to what is taking place around us. This week, we bring you articles to assist you in the quest to create a better world for yourself, and for all. With the upcoming US election, and with the dangerous slide in many countries toward authoritarianism, we also are focusing more on inequality, extremism, and us-vs-them mentalities.

Mar 25, 2024 | innerself.com | Gregory Ripley |Pierre Pradervand |Vicky Oliver |Jennifer Weeks

Image by Gerd Altmann Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self. In order to create change, we must pay attention... to our thoughts, to our actions, and to what is taking place around us. This week, we bring you articles to assist you in the quest to create a better world for yourself, and for all. With the upcoming US election, and with the dangerous slide in many countries toward authoritarianism, we also are focusing more on inequality, extremism, and us-vs-them mentalities.

Mar 19, 2024 | innerself.com | Gregory Ripley

Image by Gerd AltmannAs Oscar Wilde once said, “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” All of us can be prone at times to fall into extremes. If we like something or find it useful, we might become like a new religious convert. We may extol the virtues of this new workout program or diet or religion we’ve found as the be-all and end-all. This worked for me, so it’ll work for you, we think. Or, if a little bit is good then a lot will be even better.

Feb 20, 2024 | innerself.com | Gregory Ripley

Image by judy mady If we turn our minds to the spiritual and remain mindful throughout our day, our lives will become more joyful. We’ll find an increased sense of gratitude and contentment, and we’ll experience an ease and lightness in all we do. The Dao will begin to infuse our lives. Now this isn’t to say we won’t have challenging events in our lives. The change won’t necessarily come in the events of our lives, in the things that happen to us, but in how we experience and respond to them.

Jan 25, 2024 | gregoryripley.medium.com | Gregory Ripley

My five favorite translations of the Daode Jing, in no particular order. They each bring something different and worthwhile to the table, and are quality translations. One thing they have in common is historical context. None of these play fast and loose with the translation or seek to remove the text from its cultural and historical context and treat it as a book which exists in a vacuum, as so many English language “translations” have.