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He prefers what is within to what is without.
John 15:4–5, the Bible advises you to “stay joined to me, and I will stay joined to you. Just as a branch cannot produce fruit unless it stays joined to the vine, you cannot produce fruit unless you stay joined to me. I am the vine, and you are the branches.”
Just as a branch cannot produce fruit unless it stays joined to the vine, you cannot produce fruit unless you stay joined to me. I am the vine, and you are the branches.”
“They stand, and they wait, the power of their growth apparently dormant. But inside, a burgeoning is building imperceptibly…neither bad fortune nor good fortune will alter what they are. We should be the same way.”
Live the mystery by beginning to perceive what average eyes fail to notice. Focus on loving the life you have now in the body you’ve got!
slow your pace so that it harmonizes with heaven’s way.
know your highest self and understand that there’s nothing you can’t achieve.
Lao-tzu’s legacy is summed up magnificently in the words of T. S. Eliot, from his poem “Little Gidding”: We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time.
Remember that you are not this body—you are a piece of the infinite Tao, never changing and never dying.
Which snowflake is the most magnificent? Is it possible that they are all magnificent—and that, celebrating their magnificence together they create an awesome display? Then they melt into each other, and into the Oneness. Yet they never go away. They never disappear. They never cease to be. Simply, they change form. And not just once, but several times: from solid to liquid, from liquid to vapor, from the seen to the unseen, to rise again, and then again to return in new displays of breathtaking beauty and wonder. This is Life, nourishing Life. This is you. The metaphor is complete. The
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assisting others to stay inspired and have contented and peaceful lives.
I’ve practiced this approach to leadership my entire adult life by keeping the number of people who work for me and require my supervision to an absolute minimum.
trust in the Tao to manage all of the details of both your professional and personal life.
Give yourself a break from self-imposed pressures that burden you, allowing yourself plenty of free time to commune with nature, play with your children, read, see a movie, or just do nothing.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

