As usual, Tze Lin, a very good piece of work, clear and in English that Professor Higgins would approve (but wouldn't let pass without some remarks... lol).
In my youth I read the Tao Te Ching without much attention; at university, I reread it carefully.
I desired to highlight some paragraphs but I do not know how you, and most of the writers here can; so I use quotation marks.
"Then a miracle came, plants starts to grow, life came slowly, and look where we are now. Everything has been accomplished. Life came, humans evolved, and people are waking up to their purpose. Isn’t it wonderful?".
Well, it is not exactly what you saw that I think when reading my posts "History of the Earth and the predators that developed on it, History of the Earth — Part Two" and "Sometimes an everyday event and…" you accompanied the long sequence: life appeared, disappeared as the result of tremendous cataclysms, reappeared always in brutality, in killing, eating each other and finally humans evolved to the most dangerous predator, what is known as "Homo Sapiens Sapiens"; maybe the philosophers, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, knowing the truth, agreed to baptize this entity as that as a joke and disguise to create or enhance human self-esteem.
We are still in the process of evolution, many groups and entities are working hard to wake people to discover and accept their purposes; but different beliefs, religions, politics, nationalism, divide people and nations, and are hindrances to reaching a collective search for a utopia; the media and advertising lead to dystopia...
"The most insecure talk the loudest, and the most confident talk the least. Insecure people talk before thinking, and confident people think before talking".
Good advice; it goes for photographing and writing too. It's very suitable for me: I write sometimes without focusing on an idea and a goal; you always think and treat the content with care; the wrong example is this comment of mine, very long: many will not even read it.
"Thank you for reading my article. I'm a self-help writer and my goal is to write articles that make my readers think and learn".
You can call yourself a self-help-writer, but you're more and different than that.
The term "self-help" reminds me of things like "How to Win Friends and Influence People", of the idiotic things - to me that Dale Carnegie created and wrote to enrich himself at the expense of real idiots, then imitated - without his verve and intuition - by many other smarties.
No, you are none of these; yes, you help us to think and learn.
Congratulations and thank you.