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The more you pursue desires, the more they’ll elude you. Try letting life come to you
Think about the first nine months of your life after conception: You lived in, and were nourished by, amniotic fluid, which is truly unconditional love flowing into you…flowing as you.
These are some of the benefits that come naturally from water simply doing what it does and being what it is.
It simply moves, and the benefits it provides occur from it being what it is, in harmony with the present moment and knowing the truth of precisely how to behave.
In The Hidden Messages in Water, Masaru Emoto
be satisfied at a level that fosters living with humility.
If wealth and fame are desired, we must know when to retire from the treadmill and be like the Tao.
It now takes longer to go from one side of London to the other than it did before the invention of the automobile!
You literally own nothing and no one: All that is composed will decompose; all that is yours will lea...
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The usefulness of what is depends on what is not.
A composer once told me that the silence from which each note emerges is more important than the note itself. He said that it’s the empty space between the notes that literally allows the music to be music—if there’s no void, there’s only continuous sound.
This is the primary purpose of learning to meditate, or to be in the silence, inviting your essence to reveal itself and allowing you to live in the void.
Look out at your world from “what is not” and appreciate that your very usefulness as a material being is completely dependent upon this void.
From an inner perspective, nothing more is needed.
Pursuing status stops the natural flow of Divine energy to your independent mind.
You have a basic nature that is uniquely yours—learn to trust that Tao nature and be free of other people’s opinions.
The Tao doesn’t force or interfere with things; it lets them work in their own way to produce results naturally.
Both outcomes result in the dependent mind dominating, as opposed to the way of the Tao, in which the independent mind flows freely.
By living from your eternal self, you’ll become a mystical teacher and guardian.

