Tao Te Ching Journal Reviews:
A Path to Inner Quiet

The Tao Te Ching Journal serves as a contemplative companion for those exploring Taoist wisdom, inner quiet, and self-acceptance through writing and reflection. These early reviews, gathered shortly after the first orders shipped, offer heartfelt insights into how the journal supports personal practice and deepens one's spiritual journey.

I received my copy of the Tao Te Ching journal yesterday and I was just overwhelmed by how beautiful it is! You have been creating such amazing work with artistic beauty and depth that really shows your years of learning, experience and journeying (both internal and external). Your ability to share this with others is really a gift. Thank you.
     Also, in a recent post/email you asked for those of us who had followed your work, how it might have helped or affected us. For me, it was not so much that your work helped me through one particular rough patch, but rather that it helped me through many because it made me not feel alone. I have always been creative and searching for meaning but grew up in a community that was not. I don’t mean this as an insult to them, but I was just different in this way and for the longest time I felt like I was alone in this, and that maybe there was something wrong with me. My tastes in music, and interest in art, my craving for travel to remote places didn’t seem to be shared by my peers (southeastern Ohio) for the longest time. My discovery of Buddhism and then later, your artwork helped me realize that I wasn’t alone in these things. And that sure was a wonderful comfort that helped me carry on and thrive.
     Many years later I was at a concert in Pittsburgh watching the performance of an Icelandic band that I loved called Sigur Ros, and there were about two thousand people there. Amidst the lovely, artistic music I looked around again and realized that I wasn’t alone. We may be strange breeds among the mainstream, but I wouldn’t change it. I am comfortable now among solitude, nature and creative people who are truly trying to be their authentic selves. Your work and art over the years has helped stabilize this feeling of self-acceptance in me, Rod. And for that I thank you. It has meant so much to me. I will follow you and your art until the end my friend. It is beautiful. Keep going strong good Brother!
     - Jerry Rea Ellis

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Reading the Tao Te Ching Journal has me contemplating certain passages and deepening my Taoist journey. It is a beautiful book.  
- Roger Bass

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Exceptional. Choices, layout and planning- all well done.
- The Rev. Jane F. Ellis 

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Rod, I just got my Zen Journal it is so beautiful, I am thrilled I can’t wait to just sit with it tomorrow morning and enter its pages. 
     - K.A.

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I opened the box, saw the journal and caught my breath.  The cover alone began to speak to me; then as I began to view your art, then the verses, your reflections and great questions, I couldn’t put it down.  This April Ist I turned 91, but there’s no stopping going deeper within, your beautiful journal carries me further as I continue to explore what’s still hidden  to bring forth and be discovered.   As I continue facilitating a women’s spiritual support group and also a dream group, I’ll share the paintings and wisdom in the journal.   With appreciation and a warm heart, the journal is truly a gift!
- Ruth

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