What Is Your Best?

The Tao Chapter 22 – My Fifth Interpretation 

What is being your best self?

It is being.

Being without resistance to Life’s flow;

Allowing your inner voice to guide you;

Accepting the experiences Life brings you as gifts for your becoming.

Being is expressing the true you.

How can you be your best self?

By letting Life live you;

By living an inspired life;

By being honest with yourself in all things;

By serving the benefit of others.

Who is your best self?

The self;

The intangible part of you who you once heard clearly, but stifled in your own pursuits;

The part of you that yearns to express its uniqueness to the world, but is repressed;

The beingness that you see when you silently gaze into your own eyes.

Being your best self is allowing the wellspring of Life to be expressed through you for the benefit of all.

LIVING THE TAO: There is an inner voice that whispers your heart’s desires for expression in the world to serve humankind in its own unique way and to bring you joy. Are you listening? Are you allowing your best self to emerge?

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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.

Original image by Hans Braxmeier.