The Creative Tao

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The Creative Tao Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

Pamela Metz

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Creativity does not come easy all the time, and sometimes creative minds lose their focus. The Creative Tao can help anyone struggling with developing fresh ideas. This book gives a new perspective for those seeking creative balance, professional or personal development. Author Pamela Metz has penned 81 beautiful and poetic verses. Her words encourage stress-free and productive creativity through reflection. This adaptation of The Tao te Ching will inspire you, sharpen any dull edges, and broaden facets of your innate creative potential.

The Creative Tao will help ease the frustration if you have trouble creating or expressing yourself with new content. Pamela Metz delivers insight and powerful wisdom for everyone in the arts. You can transform your thoughts, whether it be writer’s block, blank canvases, lumps of clay, or empty sheets of music. This adaptation of The Tao te Ching will uplift your creative spirits if you feel listless or without direction.

This insightful interpretation of the Tao delivers gentle yet powerful words that help you regain creative balance. Our accomplishments and work define us and our lives. If you misconstrue that the well has run dry, The Creative Tao will guide you. This book helps you channel deep creativity, transform it into art, and then into living. Unveil the creativity dwelling inside you with this insightful book.

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About the Author

Pamela Metz lives in Denver, Colorado, where she served as Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Denver and the associate dean of academic and student affairs for the Graduate School of Social Work. She holds degrees in education and social work from the Illinois State University, the University of Denver, and the University of Colorado. Pam’s 30-year teaching career spans university settings, public and private schools, and the innovative University Without Walls. She has worked as an elementary teacher, hospice social worker, and educational administrator. On all of her paths of life, the wisdom of the Tao has been her guide. She follows the principles of letting go, following natural cycles, and trusting the processes.

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Paperback

Master ID

9780893342555

ISBN10

893342556

Publisher

Green Dragon Books



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Reviews

  1. Marion

    Enlightening, Encouraging, Energizing, Enigmatic
    I’ve read about ten versions of the Tao te Ching recently, but none as beautiful, encouraging and uplifting as this one. Anyone who has struggled with creating will benefit from this enlightened version of one of the world’s oldest collections of philosophical verses. Here’s a taste from Verse One entitled, “Before the Beginning: Getting Started”. To create is to struggle with the empty spaces of the canvas, the blank page, or the void of the empty stage. To live is to do the same. Before the shapes take form, there is the nothingness. There must be nothingness before the beginning. Before the beginning is prologue: all that has come before.

  2. Julia S.

    This book sits by my bedside.
    Several years ago I ran across The Creative Tao and it has become one of my “go to” books when my creative juices slow down. It has become so helpful to me that I bought this copy for one of my artist friends. It’s a great help for regaining perspective for anyone in the arts. The only downside is that the left pages are in Chinese, with English on the right. The Chinese is in very old characters that are not easily to translate. My daughter-in-law is Chinese, and she is unable to read them. Hence, any direct translation seems unlikely. This has not been a problem for those I know in the painting field, and I cannot say enough good things about the helpful little gems on each page.

  3. Vine Voice

    Beautiful
    I’ve read about ten versions of the Tao te Ching recently, but none as beautiful, encouraging and uplifting as this one. Anyone who has struggled with creating will benefit from this enlightened version of one of the world’s oldest collections of philosophical verses.

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