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effective parents don’t want to be leaned on; they want to make leaning unnecessary.
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letting yourself be more spontaneous and less regimented in your daily life:
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Recognize that you’ve created restrictions for yourself that keep you from new and expanding experiences, and find the time now to close your personal rule book and plunge in where you’ve never before wandered.
close your personal rule book and plunge in where you’ve never before wandered.
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Bad fortune is what good fortune leans on; good fortune is what bad fortune hides in.
Thus the master is content to serve as an example and not to impose his will.
Living Untroubled by Good or Bad Fortune
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Albert Einstein once observed, “Nothing happens until something moves.”
“Nothing happens until something moves.”
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Your life itself is the perfect place to personalize your ability to live untroubled by good or bad fortune, for you have the opportunity at every stage to see wholeness.
So know your own heart and let your conduct be consistent with the Tao by not imposing your will—be
Keep in mind that when you’ve reached the valley floor, the only direction you can go is upward.
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Restraint begins with giving up one’s own ideas.
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If a man knows no limits, he is fit to lead.
There are four words that crop up repeatedly in many of the translations of this passage of the Tao Te Ching: restraint, frugality, moderation, and thrift.
practice self-control.
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When you cultivate a style of leadership that creates “a good store of virtue, then nothing is impossible,” for there are no limits.
cultivate a style of leadership that creates “a good...
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Living in thrift and moderation means being in harmony with the world through your generous nature.
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it’s important to be a leader who accumulates a warehouse full of virtue by living in accordance with the Tao. When that’s what you have to give away, you’ll naturally interfere less.
Feel joyful knowing that the example you’re modeling is helping others make the right choices, as this is the essence of Tao leadership.
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. It’s a green plant growing out of a rock—there’s no dirt or earth, only hard rock, yet it thrives, despite what all of us have been taught to believe.
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practice living without limits by gathering virtue and modeling it.
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Gather as much virtue as you possibly can.
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I then found that not all of my life was to be peaks and mountaintops. Yet when I succeeded in getting out from under what felt like a mountain, I was virtually unscathed. This is because I was so deeply rooted and firmly planted in the Tao that my original vision was to be a lasting one, impervious to external circumstances.
Change the way you look at your life by moderating your ego.
live on what you need rather than practicing conspicuous consumption.
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gather virtue points by serving rather than accumulating.
I am a being of light and love,
“If only the ruler and his people would refrain from harming each other, all the benefits of life would accumulate in the kingdom.”
From an enraged motorist’s curse to the harsh words of a disgruntled clerk or upset family member, these outbursts are easily shifted when you stay centered inwardly. Become immune to such harmful thinking and action by knowing that none of this is about you.
live in ways that encourage cooperation and a spirit of love
encourage cooperation and a spirit of love in place of competition and revenge.
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Catch yourself when you have judgmental thoughts that could be considered harmful for yourself or others.
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Approach the universe with the Tao in your heart rather than reacting defensively.
by remaining quiet and still, it ultimately overcomes male (yang) efforts to subjugate and conquer.
if we begin to lessen ego-dominated thinking, sooner or later the world will get the message
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By staying calm and under the radar, others will ultimately flow to you, joining with you in creating friendship and trust.
Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness.
Imagine having access to a very special place where we could retreat and commune
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#HappyLivingHouse
meditate for guidance to carry out awesome responsibilities,
Visualize a house that’s opening its front door to you and welcoming you to bask in the sacred warmth of its interior, and imagine leaving all angst and fear behind as you walk in.
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Make this home of the Tao a private retreat that you’re free to enter with this meditative visualizing technique. It is divinity itself, and it can be your sanctuary at any time.
can be your sanctuary at...
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See the unfolding of the Tao in them, and picture them as innocent children who are overstimulated by ego’s temporary stronghold.
make every effort to wrap loving arms around the children you see before you.
Take on difficulties while they are still easy; do great things while they are still small.
If you agree too easily, you will be little trusted; because the sage always confronts difficulties, he never experiences them.
learn to think in moments, rather than in days, weeks, months, years, decades, or a lifetime. All we ever get is right now—that’s it.
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