Matt Gersper (a.k.a Mr. Happy Living)’s Kindle Notes & Highlights for Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao

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Remain a servant. See yourself as someone who’s on this planet to assist others.

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See yourself as someone who’s on this planet to assist others.

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Remember that the great sea serves everyone by being a life-supporting receiver of all who wish to partake of her bounty, so practice...

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From mercy comes courage. From frugality comes generosity. From humility comes leadership.

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Love vanquishes all attackers, it is impregnable in defense. When heaven wants to protect someone, does it send an army? No, it protects him with love.

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compassion, good-heartedness, love, kindness, and charity

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think of others first by being willing to serve and exhibit kindness and love,

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And earthly power doth then show likest God’s When mercy seasons justice.

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being satisfied with less rather than more results in great generosity.

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The less attached you are to your stuff, the easier it is to be generous;

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we’re all instruments for Tao or God or whatever you call the energy that writes the books, delivers the speeches, makes the lifesaving discoveries, and so on.

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Humility is akin to surrendering to a force greater than your ego, giving credit to that Source, and being grateful for any wisdom and influence that’s given to you by that power.

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You’re not in competition with anyone, so don’t feel as if you must defeat another person or compare yourself on any level.

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Extend mercy and compassion toward every form of life, including yourself!

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collaboration, not competition.

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choose to live by cooperating.

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What you fight weakens you; what you cooperate with strengthens you.

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I practice this concept by thinking of every person whose purpose is to help improve the quality of life on our planet as being my partner, on my “team.”

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Declare that you’re not going to fight. Don’t fight colds, illnesses, or even serious afflictions. Don’t fight with family members, or against political opinions. Don’t fight addictions, and most important, don’t fight yourself.

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When will we [teach our children] what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel?

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You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel.

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You have the capacity for anything. Yes, yo...

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when “I” and “enemy” exist together, there is no room left for my treasure.

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when two opponents meet, the one without an enemy will surely triumph.

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“Making enemies gives away our power, keeps us from taking responsibility for our lives. Instead of resolving conflict, we focus our attention on fearing, hating, and lashing out at perceived ‘enemies.’”

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conflict doesn’t have to mean combat.

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“…in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart…. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.”

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the sage dresses plainly, even though his interior is filled with precious gems.

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grasp the essence of heaven on earth.

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just surrender and allow this life-sustaining Tao energy to guide you.

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Stop fighting, eschew violent thoughts and deeds, and give up trying to control others or the world. Stay humble; don’t interfere; respect your creative genius, as well as that of others; and, above all, return to your invisible Source and shed your troublesome ego while you’re still alive and incarnated as one of the 10,000 things. If you do all of this, you will naturally live a long life in joyful, nonjudgmental peace.

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Stop fighting, eschew violent thoughts and deeds, and give up trying to control others or the world. Stay humble; don’t interfere; respect your creative genius, as well as that of others; and, above all, return to your invisible Source and shed your troublesome ego while you’re still alive and incarnated as one of the 10,000 things. If...

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Stop fighting, eschew violent thoughts and deeds, and give up trying to control others or the world. Stay humble; don’t interfere; respect your creative genius, as well as that of others; and, above all, return to your invisible Source and shed your troublesome ego while you’re still alive and incarnated as one of the 10,000 things. If...

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Stop fighting, eschew violent thoughts and deeds, and give up trying to control others or the world. Stay humble; don’t interfere; respect your creative genius, as well as that of others; and, above all, return to your invisible Source and shed your troublesome ego while you’re still alive and incarnated as one of the 10,000 things. If...

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Lao-tzu tells you that there’s so little to do—all you need to remember is that your holiness is a piece of the Tao.

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A Course in Miracles, “Your holiness reverses all the laws of the world. It is beyond every restriction of time, space, distance, and limits of any kind.”

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Make it your daily practice to seek the invisible force of God in everything you see and hear.

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Only when we are sick of our sickness shall we cease to be sick.

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symptoms in our thinking could be fear, anxiety, anger, hatred, worry, guilt, stress, impatience, and so on. These are signals that our thoughts are out of balance with our Source, which is pure love, kindness, patience, contentment, and all of the other expressions of Tao-centeredness that appear in these 81 essays on the Tao Te Ching.