Hold Your Center

| The Tao Chapter 13 – My Fifth Interpretation|

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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