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December 30, 2020 - February 2, 2021
For example, if you’re tired, remind yourself that you know what being rested is like. Recognize the opposing feeling so that you can know both of them simultaneously.
Seek the 36th Verse opposite feeling right in the moment and be at one with it in your mind, for this will provide you with a balanced sense of being at peace within yourself.
language of the Tao, stay soft and gentle and you will endure.
do nothing and everything gets done.
“The Tao does nothing, but leaves nothing undone.”
It’s spirit that gives life. So to truly live out your destiny as a piece of the originating Tao, you must shed your ego and return to spirit—or you can wait until your body dies and make your return trip at that time.
You do so by yielding your ego, surrendering, and being humble.
A person in the Tao sees the world quite differently, knowing that inner peace is power. Less effort is actually easier
This verse reinforces the idea that blending these seemingly opposing forces is the way to achieve harmony.
Think of one person who may have wronged you at some time in your life: someone who abandoned or mistreated you, someone who stole from or cheated you, someone who abused you or spread ugly rumors about you.
It’s performing without action! Apply this way of seeing everything in your world: Tasks will be simplified,
“obtain the bounty of this world,” which is available to you, too.
By letting go of your inner drive to push ahead, you’ll see that you ironically do better than when you tried so hard.
Consider what you’ve wanted to have in this life as if it’s behind a locked door. Examine what you’ve been telling yourself about the prosperity, superb health, good luck, business success, or wonderful relationships
Then imagine yourself flowing like water through the barrier of that locked room.
As you allow softness to be part of the picture of your life, the hard way will soften.
nature, don’t use her for pleasure.”
Lao-tzu is urging you to look into your heart and examine what is truly important.
Affirm: The number one priority in my life is my relationship with my Source of being.
You’ll begin to emulate the Tao effortlessly, living heaven on earth.
When you go beyond superficialities, you become aware that what used to look imperfect, empty, awkward, or even stupid now appears perfect, full, eloquent, and intelligent.
“Thank You for an opportunity to live in a state of contentment.”
Practice feeling safe and protected.
Instead, it will arise when you know that you’re in constant contact with a virtuous power that lies within every cell of your being.
Let go of needing to control others, and discover how capable they really are.
Keep your mouth shut, guard the senses, and life is ever full. Open your mouth, always be busy, and life is beyond hope.
He wants you to realize that you have the ability to enjoy this mysterious beginning before your physical ending.
It’s vital that you spend a few moments each day getting to know your (and my) eternal Mother, which you can do by simply acknowledging her presence and silently communicating with
Practice abandoning rigidity, and instead cultivate elasticity to improve your strength.
commit yourself to long periods of listening; and eliminate giving advice, meddling, and participating in gossip.
Living by returning to the Mother will provide you with a clarity you’ve never experienced before.
making compassion the essential foundation of your philosophy
When you live with the joyful awareness that you potentially have an infinite effect on the universe, you’ll radiate Tao consciousness.
Know that in the silent space within you, where the Tao animates every breath and thought, your life makes a difference.
realize that what you call luck isn’t something that randomly happens—it’s yours for life when you decide to live by letting go.
Living by letting go means releasing worry, stress, and fear.
I trust luck to guide me.
Peace will replace stress, harmony will replace effort, acceptance will replace interference and force, and good luck will replace fear. You’ll become what you think about,
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
Dedicate a week to charting incidents of “things working out” without your having to control or “make” them happen.
Since your emotions are like waves on the ocean, learn to watch them return to the vast, calm, all-knowing Source.
The more authoritarian any system is, the more outlaws will appear.
find the time now to close your personal rule book
When negativity feels like it’s directed right at you, retreat to that place of kindness and love within and deflect that energy.
refusing to lower yourself to the level of their abusive thinking.
suspend your fantasies of revenge toward the perpetrators. Change your mental energy to something like: I send loving, kind thoughts to all
Visualize a protective shield all around you, guarding you against what’s perceived as evil in the world.
Approach the universe with the Tao in your heart rather than reacting defensively.
Think of yourself as the ocean and stay low enough to allow all others to stream down to you and create a “great country” wherever you elect to settle.
So we must avoid the inclination to magnify tiny events or worry about a future that may never arrive.
