That Was Zen, This Is Tao Quotes

“If you are having trouble in some areas of your life or are feeling a bit of unhappiness , that could be because some of what you currently believe about life is not in keeping with the laws that govern our cosmos , one of which is that everything that occurs in your life will ultimately be of maximum benefit to you .”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“The way to peace is to be peaceful.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Mentally focus your attention on the part of you that needs healing. Now slowly take a deep breath, slowly filling your lungs to capacity while you send the oxygen to the part of you that needs healing. Now slowly breathe out, visualizing the ailing part being healed.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“When we use our mind, not our brain, to think, to imagine, to plan, to wonder about existence, we are drawing upon the Taoversal consciousness that streams through us.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“An event is just an event. How you respond to the event determines its outcome in your life.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“You suffered, not realizing that the events were part of the plan to give you strength, wisdom, and good fortune.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“You are not your body.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“The ancient sages tell us that it is only through daily self-renewal of character that we can attain and continue at the height of our powers.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“With whatever time is left to you, play your part well — perfectly. Play it as you want to be remembered. No more can anyone ask of us or can we ask of ourselves.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Enlightenment is knowing Who You Are in relation to All - That - Is. There is nothing in the Taoverse more the Taoverse than you. You always were; you will always be.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Everything in existence is flowing through the six stages of change.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Through a specific method of dividing forty - nine yarrow stalks (stems of the milfoil plant), we can receive answers to our questions, obtain direction, anticipate changes, avoid dangers, and take the correct action to bring about the most beneficial results.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Now almost fifty years have passed since I discovered the I Ching, and I still read it regularly and use it as a guide. The wisdom of the I Ching is inexhaustible. As for the ability to obtain guidance from Tao, well, I don’t know how anyone can get along without it.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“We’ve been slaves to what’s stored in our brain for so long that it takes a herculean effort to clear it out. But it is essential for a good life that you do.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Do not allow your brain to infect your mind with visions of ill health, problems, unhappiness, and conflict. You are in charge. Do not succumb to loading your brain with garbage.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Taking control of your life begins with taking control of your thoughts.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“When we are joyous of heart, we hear a resonance in the songs of the birds, see resonance in the opening of a flower, and feel it in the pressure of a friend’s hand.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“The person with a joyous heart is a treasure to be with, a wellspring of inspiration, and a fit companion.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Once you have gotten all you need from a situation, it passes out of your life, never to return.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“So everything that has happened to you, that will happen to you, that is happening to you is perfect for you. Treat it that way, and your whole existence will change — perfectly.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“As long as you treat seemingly bad things as though they are truly bad, you give them the power to be bad.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Living authentically means living as the real you without deception. It means you are the person you say you are, not the person you want people to believe you are or the person others expect you to be.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Living your life authentically means living your life being true to what is highest and best within you without misrepresentation.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“As you transition at the end of this life, your physical body will begin its slow transformation into the substances that will support other living things. Your consciousness, however, will not transform. It is already a complete entity unto itself.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Karma is Tao’s response to the sum of your actions.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“If you hurt someone intentionally, you changed your karmic destiny. If you were mean to someone, your karmic destiny changed to take into account what your meanness would create in your life and in the life of the person you were mean to — a constantly moving, shifting panorama of destinies.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Your destiny was billions of years in the making.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Your destiny is constantly changing according to your actions.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Everything that was created changes. But time was not created. Time does not change. Time does not “ do ” anything. Time is a word we use to describe what existence exists in.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“You change your future and influence it by how you are being every moment.”
― Chris Prentiss, That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition