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What We See AND What We Carry
Finding Our Way with the Tao Te Ching
hat has shaped the way you see? What will you take responsibility for carrying forward?
Long before we can name what matters, life places much in our hands: family and place, love and loss, loyalties and fears, gifts and burdens. These experiences become part of how we meet the world. With time, we can look again at what we have received, care for what remains ours, release what should travel no farther, and become more responsible for what passes through us into another life.
In nineteen conversations with the Tao Te Ching, Cliff Kayser follows these questions through friendship, work, grief, wonder, belonging, movement, power, and contribution. His opening letter to his eighty-three-year-old self honors Barry Johnson, whose friendship and Polarity Thinking deepened Kayser’s understanding of relationship, responsibility, and the difference one life can make.
Polarity Thinking helps reveal recurring patterns. The Tao keeps these pages open to mystery, relationship, and what no map can fully contain.
Much of the book took shape at Kayser Ridge, where waterfalls appear after rain, hummingbirds move through the pollinator garden, and an unfinished shell holds memory and possibility. The life of that place travels through these pages.
Bring your own life to the conversation. What deserves your care now? What will you carry forward? What might your carrying make possible for someone else?
Each chapter pairs a complete Tao rendering with a brief reflection and a free companion essay reached through a Yin/Yang QR code.
What We See AND What We Carry is the second of four books in the Guided Tao Series. Book Three is currently in development!