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Seeking the favor of others isn’t the way of the Tao. Pursuing status stops the natural flow of Divine energy to your independent mind.
Allow yourself to be guided by your essential beingness, the “natural you” that nourishes your independent mind.
chasing after favored status or lofty titles to display self-importance are examples of living from a mind that depends on external signals rather than the natural inner voice.
In the spirit of the Tao, your true nature will replace the pursuit of external favor with the awareness that what others think of you is really none of your business!
“seeking favor is degrading” and will lead you out of touch with your true self.
If your inner nature is one of peace, love, and harmony as a musical genius, for instance, then act on just that today.
Discovering how things have always been brings one into harmony with the Way.
Tapping into this invisible, untouchable, immeasurable force will enable you to gain the harmony that comes with being connected to the oneness, and harmony is your ultimate objective in deciding to live an “in-Spirited” life.
Stay in a persistent state of awareness of the eternal principle that animates all of life. By seeing the unfolding of God in everyone you encounter
Embrace the principle that allows it to be, and then turn it inward and do the same for your own physical existence.
But precisely because he is never full, he can remain like a hidden sprout and does not rush to early ripening.
These descriptors paint a picture of those who live unhurriedly but are also in a profoundly aware state.
stay so relaxed that your stillness allows all things around you to settle, resulting in a deep clarity.
This is actually your vibrations from your brain going out and influencing the world around you
but totally in charge of your inner world.
“Be still, and know that I am God” (Ps. 46:10).
This is in a sentence kind of what i believe
Imagine all that you’d like to experience in life and then let go. Trust the Tao to work in Divine perfection, as it does with everything on the planet. You don’t really need to rush or force anything.
Be an observer and receiver rather than the pushy director of your life.
What i want is what i will get
You’ve probably been encouraged to actively direct and go after your desires all of your life . . . now it’s time to trust in the eternal wisdom that flows through you.
Take ten minutes to sit quietly while contemplating all that you have and all that is flowing into your life on a Divinely orchestrated timetable. Be at peace and give thanks for what is allowing your life to unfold so perfectly. Let go of all other hurried thoughts.
Amazing
Rather than viewing change as a disruptive, unwanted occurrence, you can choose to view the variances in your world as valuable influences in the cycle of a Tao-centered existence.
Instead of believing that you know what’s best for others, trust that they know what’s best for themselves.
Allow other people to share their thoughts about the path they see for themselves. Let your position be known, but also convey that you trust them to make the right choice.
Laws or rules are seen by many as solely responsible for effective kindness, justice, and love—but you can choose to live from your heart, viewing these virtues as individual responsibilities that you adhere to without a statute or convention telling you to.
Within you lies a piece of God that instinctively knows what to do and how to be.
When you know that you emerged from an impeccable Source of honor and equality, you don’t have to rely on a system of justice.
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.
Notice attempts to compartmentalize you: Are you dependent on a system of reward and punishment for approval? Do the rules and codes of conduct you follow come from a heart-centered space, or are they designed to create a label of “specialness”?
The world of institutional pressures is built on an endless list of human-made do’s and don’ts. Lao-tzu advocates that you discover your heart’s true desire, all the while remembering that no one else can tell you what it is.
You retrain yourself to give up your beliefs about lacks and shortages; you instead trust in the great Source to provide what you need, as it has always done for all beings.
Dont worry about what i dont have because that takes away from the present moment and instead place my whole heart and faith in the fact that the tao will give me everything that i need.
It is all perfect. God’s love is everywhere and forgets no one. I trust in this force to guide me, and I am not allowing ego to enter now.
Do the Tao now by accepting what is offered—that is, know that this situation, in some way that your striving ego rejects, is actually sustenance from the Great Mother.
How do I know the ways of all things at the beginning? I look inside myself and see what is within me.
Have an unquenchable thirst for the intangible and enigmatic force that supports all life.
Because he doesn’t know who he is, people recognize themselves in him. Because he has no goal in mind, everything he does succeeds.
the Tao isn’t trying to get someplace other than where it is. It has no goals, no desire, no judgments; it flows everywhere because it is the energy of creation. To be in harmony with the Tao is to be free of goals, immersed in all that you’re doing without concern about the outcome—just noticing in each moment and allowing yourself to flow with the creative Source that’s energizing everything and everyone in the universe.
Maybe you prefer to focus on the tide comfortably coming in and out, apparently without judgment. Find your symbolic images, whatever they may be, and invite their counterparts in the Tao to blossom within you.
Seeing yourself as important and special because of your artistic talent, for instance, is walking the path of ego.
Change your life by consciously choosing to be in a state of gratitude.
By returning to radical humility and seeing the greatness within everyone, you’ve then cleared your life of excessive self-importance . . . and this is the way of the Tao.
Everything abd everyone is perfect vecause of the piece of god within everyone so being self-righteous is obviously not needed
timeless energy that’s within everything on the planet and that remains uncontaminated by the solid appearance of form.
We are more than ur physical bodies we are really a great gods and perfect beings because of the infinite tao flows. And the infinite tao is greatness itself
When such thoughts emerge in your mind, let them tell you what they want. If you allow those not-so-great notions to speak, you’ll always discover that what they really want is to feel good. Give them the time they need to trust that there’s no payoff for their existence, and they will happily merge into the greatness within you.
Catch yourself in the midst of any utterance that reflects your belief that you’re average. Silently speak warmly to that belief and ask it what it wants. It may think it has to protect you from disappointment or pain, as it probably did earlier in your existence. But with continued accepting attention, the feeling will always eventually admit that it wants to feel great.
You’re good enough to withstand the passing disappointments and pain that afflict life on this planet
but trying to protect yourself by believing that you don’t embody g...
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You can be greatness and be nobody, simultaneously.
To be restless is to lose one’s self-mastery.
Lao-tzu tells you that assigning blame for your lack of calmness will never bring you to the state of being that you’re striving to attain.
Self-mastery only blossoms when you practice being aware of, and responsible for, what you’re feeling.
Just contemplate for a moment the idea of a fountain of the world, which never fades, never ends, and is there beyond the comings and goings of the 10,000 things. This kind of power is the one to create and then retreat, to form and then to render formless. It is always there, an endless geyser gushing forth the abundant life of virtue.
Lao-tzu urges you to avoid the extremes, the excesses, and the extravagant, and know that all is unfolding perfectly, even if your thoughts tell you that it’s imperfect.
