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choose to live from your heart,
I promise you that when you adjust rule-based thinking to a heart-based attitude, your life will change!
Lao-tzu might say that a truth is a truth until you organize it, and then it becomes a lie. Why? Because the purposes of the organization begin to take precedence over that which it first attempted to keep in order.
Lao-tzu advises you to stay centered within the all-encompassing integrity of the Tao and to release your view of profits and monetary gain as indicators of your level of success.
Be in the world of education, justice, and business—but not of it—and you’ll see the inner world where you’re centered in the Tao.
Don’t fight these institutional pressures or even the fact that they exist—simply let go of all attachments to them.
Let go of your need to get a “good deal” and choose instead to be a being of sharing.
The less you focus on making a profit—instead shifting your energy to living your purpose in harmony with everyone else—the more money will flow to you and the more opportunities for generosity will be available to you.
Give up learning and you will be free from all your cares.
Be Here Now. Be here in your mind as well as in your body, in a state of appreciation and an absence of longing.
Be here, and remember to do it now, for thinking about being someplace else uses up your...
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You’re being encouraged to simplify your life by not seeking another thing.
you may seem to be missing something, but the something is really only an illusion.
When you live by the tenets explained in this verse, you begin to have a worry-free existence.
Lao-tzu is teaching you to free your mind from its persistent nagging.
Insisting that you need what you don’t have is insane!
You may not realize how often you endeavor to accomplish all sorts of things with the idea that once you do, you’ll finally have the time to do what you really want. This is one of the most pernicious ways that many of us unconsciously prevent (or perpetually postpone) a life free of striving.

