When you are firm in your knowing about who you are, you also know there is no need to convince anyone. You are a whole, complete and powerful being whose power emanates from within. Your presence speaks for you.
Release yourself from the stress you’ve created. Settle your mind from worry. Let go of proving your worth. Calm and inner power are your original state.
Allow yourself to arrive at the place where external labels and judgements do not shape you. Your true nature was shaped long before you were named. Live in that truth.
LIVING THE TAO: What are you trying to prove? Whose expectations are you living up to? If you are seeking external approval, you are creating unnecessary stress for yourself, so simply stop. Know that you are already whole, complete and powerful and live from there.
In 2018 my focus was to intentionally live the Tao Te Ching. Now I continue into 2019 with my fifth reading. I share my daily interpretations hoping to inspire you to do the same.
Embrace your journey. Experience bliss. Live the Tao.
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Being centered in the truth of who you are frees you from falsehoods and opens you to the lessons of all experiences.
Whether the experiences are perceived as painful or pleasurable matters less. What matters more in the light of truth is the growth each circumstance brings.
These words may seem mundane, but they offer power.
When you choose to awaken to this truth, then you are choosing to stand in your power.
LIVING THE TAO: Be grateful for all experiences, even those that are painful, because they serve you. Just ask in the moment, “how,” and the answer will come.
My 2018 focus is to intentionally live the Tao Te Ching. This is my fifth reading of Stephen Mitchell’s translation. I share my daily interpretations hoping to inspire you to do the same.
Embrace your journey. Experience bliss. Live the Tao.
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Success is equally as dangerous as failure. Both are able to draw you away from your center.
Success can lead you to false judgement of yourself. Failure can lead you to false judgement of others.
Likewise, hope and fear are equally disabling.
Hope can lead you to the suffering from want. Fear can lead you to the pain of avoidance.
Rather than judge, seek after vanity or resist growth, simply allow things to be as they are.
Love yourself as you are becoming.
Appreciate others for their purpose in your world.
Refrain from forming attachment to outcomes that are temporary.
Know that since all things and concepts are but for a time, fear is a fallacy.
Then, you can hold your center.
LIVING THE TAO: Which one of these are holding you back being present and mindfully connecting with your true nature? Practice silence to reconnect with your truth.
My 2018 focus is to intentionally live the Tao Te Ching. This is my fifth reading of Stephen Mitchell’s translation. I share my daily interpretations hoping to inspire you to do the same.
Embrace your journey. Experience bliss. Live the Tao.
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]]>Purpose is found at the center, in the empty space.
A bowl’s purpose is made clear once it is filled. Its core holds the secret of its purpose.
Likewise, a vase or an empty cup.
Such is the case for you.
Your purpose is found at your center. As you are filled with joy from the right work, your purpose is made clear.
Be mindful in your dealings to find your purpose. It is at your center.
LIVING THE TAO: If you are not yet doing the work you love, follow the teachings of the Tao, identify it, and do it. There is a space that only you can fill.
My 2018 focus is to intentionally live the Tao Te Ching. This is my fifth reading of Stephen Mitchell’s translation. I share my daily interpretations hoping to inspire you to do the same.
Embrace your journey. Experience bliss. Live the Tao.
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Let it be that by your nature your presence nourishes, inspires and brings encouragement.
By allowing yourself to become more of who you are, you accomplish this without trying.
Be grounded in humbled greatness.
Be direct and kind with your words.
Be fair and considerate in conflict.
Be flexible and allowable, leaving room for growth.
Be content and joyful doing work from your heart.
Be in the moment—mindfully present—with everyone you encounter.
Allowing yourself to be this way adds to your becoming while drawing to you benevolence.
LIVING THE TAO: In which of these ways do you want your light to shine more today? Make the decision, then let it be so.
My 2018 focus is to intentionally live the Tao Te Ching. This is my fifth reading of Stephen Mitchell’s translation. I share my daily interpretations hoping to inspire you to do the same.
Embrace your journey. Experience bliss. Live the Tao.
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The more you think for others, the less they think for themselves.
Remove their need to solve a challenge and you become an enabler.
Beliefs are born from the need to solve an existential challenge, and so many are offered to comfort the believer. From the many, contention among humankind is born.
Therefore, be a guide instead. Step back and provide space—space to connect to their true nature, think for themselves and discover their answers.
As they do, they are less enabled and more strengthened.
LIVING THE TAO: Today, I invite you to reflect on the first, second and third interpretations along with this fourth and ask, are there any shifts you are prepared to make today in relation to aligning with the art of living as shared in the Tao?
My 2018 focus is to intentionally live the Tao Te Ching. This is my fourth reading of Stephen Mitchell’s translation. I share my daily interpretations hoping to inspire you to do the same.
Embrace your journey. Experience bliss. Live the Tao.
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The flow that moves through the universe is aged beyond humankind’s first breath.
Its wisdom has created worlds, so how could the finite mind ever fully comprehend its ways?
Trying to understand Life’s flow with only your senses is limiting.
Understanding who you are is your entire life’s journey and it begins with your first look within.
There is your origin of releasing suffering.
It is from there where your joy begins.
LIVING THE TAO: Today, I invite you to reflect on the first, second and third interpretations along with this fourth and ask, are there any shifts you are prepared to make today in relation to aligning with the art of living as shared in the Tao?
My 2018 focus is to intentionally live the Tao Te Ching. This is my fourth reading of Stephen Mitchell’s translation. I share my daily interpretations hoping to inspire you to do the same.
Embrace your journey. Experience bliss. Live the Tao.
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Let your feet be firm. Be strong about your affirming belief in who you are.
Let your mind and heart be sound. Be non-harmful to yourself in your thoughts so that your emotions will lift you.
Let your tongue be steady. Be consistent in your display of affirming behavior toward yourself and others.
Let your life be fluid. Be receptive of guidance on your path despite your plan.
It is in this being that you are able to endure.
LIVING THE TAO: Today, I invite you to reflect on the first, second and third interpretations along with this fourth and ask, are there any shifts you are prepared to make today in relation to aligning with the art of living as shared in the Tao?
My 2018 focus is to intentionally live the Tao Te Ching. This is my fourth reading of Stephen Mitchell’s translation. I share my daily interpretations hoping to inspire you to do the same.
Embrace your journey. Experience bliss. Live the Tao.
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The one who has allowed her way to align with Life’s way lives with keen awareness. She knows that all things are connected and there are no accidents ,therefore she seeks and sees the connectedness of all things in her life.
Though at times she may not understand the reason for her experiences, she knows that ultimately, they serve her. She releases resistance and with alertness, takes the next step on her path before her.
She knows that her true nature—true self—is connected to Life’s way, and that her path supports her in becoming more of her true self.
If we all lived this way, we would flourish in authenticity and harmony.
It begins with one.
Live more as the authentic you by allowing The Way to become your way.
LIVING THE TAO: Today, I invite you to reflect on the first, second and third interpretations along with this fourth and ask, are there any shifts you are prepared to make today in relation to aligning with the art of living as shared in the Tao?
“All things are connected and there are no accidents.” -A. Givans
My 2018 focus is to intentionally live the Tao Te Ching. This is my fourth reading of Stephen Mitchell’s translation. I share my daily interpretations hoping to inspire you to do the same.
Embrace your journey. Experience bliss. Live the Tao.
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Why do you do the work you do?
Is it to be seen? You may be seen as disingenuous.
Is it to be heard? You may be heard as a fleecer.
Is it to be in the spotlight? Your intention may dim the goodness of the work.
Is it to have power over others? The only true power you have over anyone is yourself.
Is it to esteem yourself higher than another? Your conceit may cause you scorn.
Or is it to simply do what comes from your heart? You are in accord with your Source.
If your pure intention is to do good for others through your work then your authenticity will speak for you.
LIVING THE TAO: Today, I invite you to reflect on the first, second and third interpretations along with this fourth and ask, are there any shifts you are prepared to make today in relation to aligning with the art of living as shared in the Tao?
My 2018 focus is to intentionally live the Tao Te Ching. This is my fourth reading of Stephen Mitchell’s translation. I share my daily interpretations hoping to inspire you to do the same.
Embrace your journey. Experience bliss. Live the Tao.
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