Wu Wei: The Ancient Art of Not Forcing

Tips for trusting your creative rhythm + guided meditation for effortless success

🐛🦋🌈 Special announcement: This Thursday, I will be launching three self-guided resources on my website! A meaty workshop on Writing as a Spiritual Practice, a mini-course for creating your Personal Vision of Greatness, and a grounding meditation bundle. They are technically available now (if you spot any bugs on my new pages, feel free to let me know)—but I will be running a flash sale with a good discount for Writing is a Spiritual Practice from Thursday - Monday (September 25 - 29th). Keep your eyes on this space for updates. 🌈🦋🐛

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Last week, my friends Pedro, Mercedez, and I caught up while recording a Communion podcast episode. It'd been months since we last spoke, and we opened the conversation by remarking how nothing feels "new"—it feels like the same old shit, happening again. Perhaps it's the soul recognition that we've lived through this before, or the fact that history repeats itself. Our conversation meandered through the myth of linear time and the idea that perhaps everything happens all at once; the Daoist concept of wu wei, or effortless action; the theory that the juice of life happens at points of maximum tension (a "dymaxion" apex, coined by architect Buckminster Fuller), and so much more.

This conversation was bursting with both wisdom and nonsense, which is something I love about us. We don't plan what we're going to talk about or schedule recurring meetings to pre-determine when we record. We simply text each other when the time feels right, hit record, and witness what happens. What unfolds always surprises me.