A beautiful element in this life is the ability to learn.
Whether in a formal room or the classroom of life, you make the choice to accept this: there is room to bloom.
With hubris success can be your foe, but with humility failure can be your friend.
The courageous embraces the friend without blame, shame or judgment. Firmly hold failure’s hand and allow it to guide you onward.
Be on a path of learning, and from the darkness of failure, bloom.
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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It is said that you can catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar, and nature shows that the soft overcomes the hard.
Water erodes the mountain and carves out craters while being soft and fluid against the hard resistance.
The softness of water overcomes the hardness of stone.
Such can be the case in times of trouble between people, yet we make it so difficult to do.
You must become the humble warrior, soft as water, to overcome the terrain of a hardened heart.
The pride of the heart must surrender in one for it to surrender in the other.
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 best teaching models that there is more to learn.
Enabling the learner to believe they have all of the answers hinders their journey.
Helping the learner to understand their knowing is limited supports their growth.
If you want to cultivate ignorance, project that you are omniscient. But if you choose to encourage life, reveal your true nature and your truth: you are a learner on a journey of growth not unlike the persons in front of you, next to you and behind you.
In doing so you lead, helping others to find their 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?
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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Cycles in life are a natural occurrence. The celestial elements, the earth and the human all go through cycles.
Interference with a cycle interrupts a natural process (for the sake of overriding it with an unnatural one.) Nature is disrupted and disequilibrium is the results.
Life has a natural flow. Let is shape you.
Allow the experiences that life brings you to perfect your radiance.
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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All physical things were born of no-thing, meaning, at first something is not, and then it is.
This space of no-thing is actually something. It is energy, the great shape shifter. It is never created or destroyed; only transferred or transformed.
The great Energy flows, never attached to one moment or form, never seeking reward or recognition, only moving through all things including our hearts. Only enduring.
What then does this all mean?
You are a part of the Great flow, so align your heart and mind with its power.
The results of your acts endure so choose them wisely. Choose them with heart.
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 greater one becomes in stature as perceived by human kind, the more humility is necessary.
Surrendering to life’s flow is the heart of humility.
Living in your mind about how you should appear to the world is the beginning of your fall.
Striving for the perception of perfection is too fragile. You will err. Rather than reach for perfection even more, admit your error and correct it. Use it as a lesson in frailty. Use it as a reminder of the need for humility.
Surrender your striving to life’s flow; this is the way to humility and protection against the frailty of your lower nature.
LIVING THE TAO: Today, reflect on how you respond to feedback. Do you ponder and self-adjust, or rationalize and discard? If you tend to rationalize, you are headed for your fall.
My 2018 focus is to intentionally live the Tao Te Ching. This is my third 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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