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While learning is about accumulating information and knowledge, the Tao is about wisdom, which involves letting go of information and knowledge and living in harmony with your Source.
There’s even greater pleasure to be had in knowing that your ability to live peacefully and happily isn’t dependent on how much stuff you add to your life.
So the more you can let things unfold naturally, the more harmoniously you’re living the Tao.
You can begin changing your view of judgment as a valuable or important activity by being aware of when you’re doing it to yourself. Then simply start substituting noticing for judging;
Avoid taking one position and sticking to it no matter what the circumstances are; rather, be in harmony with all people, especially those whose opinions conflict with yours! And remember to include yourself when dispensing kindness and nonjudgment.
when you know your own endless nature and live each day with this awareness directing you, there will simply be no space within you for mortality to call the shots.
you’ve experienced the death of your earthly container as your primary source of identification.
knows that the seedling that was you is perfect and free to complete itself in whatever way it chooses.
the seedling that was you is perfect and free to complete itself in whatever way it chooses.
The Chinese refer to this hidden entity that brought you into existence as Te. I’m referring to Te here as “virtue” or “character.”
Though Tao gives life to all things, Te is what cultivates them. Te is that magic power which raises and rears them, completes and prepares them, comforts and protects them.
Te, then, is the virtue that’s deep within you and all of creation.
being secure, shielded, and nurtured won’t come from anything you might possess. Instead, it will arise when you know that you’re in constant contact with a virtuous power that lies within every cell of your being.
This hidden force is responsible for your very presence.
enjoy this mysterious beginning before your physical ending.
seeing the whole globe as part of ourselves would translate to the same respect for every form of life that we have for our individual bodies.
Understand that you can’t survive apart from what it seems isn’t part of you—for you absolutely are the air, the water, the plants, the animals, and everyone else on the planet.

