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If you spend a long period of time in study and self-cultivation, you will enter Tao.
if you are merely a wanderer in a crowd of strangers, it is wisdom to be silent.
It’s as if wanting transforms into effortless allowing.
desireless means trusting, permitting, and allowing.
Let relationships just be,
You are both the Tao and the 10,000 things simultaneously.
Beautiful or ugly are standards of the physical world, not the Tao. Contemplate the insight that duality is a mind game. In other words, people look the way they look, period—criticism is not always necessary or helpful.
trusting in the Tao is the way to be directed by the Source of your creation and to be guided by a higher principle than your ego-driven desires.
Listen for what urges you onward,
Remind yourself daily that there is no way to happiness; rather, happiness is the way.
“Stop pushing yourself,” Lao-tzu would say, “and feel gratitude and awe for what is.
“When action is pure and selfless, everything settles into its own perfect place.” Now that’s my definition of contentment!
seek to acquaint yourself with the limitless creative energy that’s a part of you,
The more rapport we have with the energy of the Tao and the more we’re living from its all-creating perspective, the more it is available to us. It’s impossible to use it up—if we consume more, we simply receive more.
You can feel this in your life: Events will take on a perfect momentum, a glorious cadence. You can feel it in your body: The energy will rise up in you in a thrilling crescendo, setting your very nerves aglow. You can feel it in your spirit: You will enter a state of such perfect grace that you will resound over the landscape of reality like ephemeral bird song. When Tao comes to you in this way, ride it for all that you are worth. Don’t interfere. Don’t stop…. Don’t try to direct it. Let it flow and follow it…. As long as the song lasts, follow. Just follow.
I see the sacred invisible Source of all in its eternal state of giving and asking nothing in return. I vow to be this, too, in my thoughts and behaviors.

