Truths

"Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.There is no mystery about the origin of things. 

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there." - Henry Miller

Permit more to unfold in your life without forcing or rejecting ideas that do not seem to fit.

Accept change as a life's truth. Go with the flow like waves to shore.

  

House finch drops a seed

           from the feeder.

Released for growth, a seedling

         shoots up from the earth.

Surrounded by bushes

          it stretches for the light.

Its color green

          in a struggle and a beginning.

The way the oak tree reaches its

          branches to explore the sky.

The Gift of Change

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. - Kurt Lewin

Alberto Villoldo, anthropologist, has studied the healing practices of Amazonian and Incan shamanism for 25 years. He says, "You can only change the world by changing your inner life."  He believes in moving into possibility. 

Price Pritchett feels, "Change always comes bearing gifts."

If you made three recommendations for change in your life, what would they include?

Search for three gifts today. Begin by thinking of your ideals. You might start with: self-respect, responsibility, reciprocity. How might you accomplish your choices? 

"The birds are molting. If only man could molt also - his mind once a year, its errors - his heart once a year, its useless passions." - James Allen

Find the Way

The Master leads by emptying people's minds

and filling their cores.

by weakening their ambition

and toughening their resolve.

He helps people lose everything

they know,  everything  they desire.

and creates confusion 

in those who think that they know.  - Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, Book of the Way is a guide to the art of living. Wisdom requires working for the good with effortless skill that comes from flowing in the moment and in accord with the Universe. 

The Tao focuses on wei wu wei - doing and not doing. It is not passivity. A trained athlete enters a state of body-awareness. The conscious will does not intrude and the body moves   by itself. The highest form of action occurs where the poem writes the poem, the game plays the game, and the dancer is the dance.

The doer has vanished into the deed. The fuel completely transformed into flame.

Today, take advantage of Lao Tzu's philosophy. Empty your mind of concepts, judgments, and rigidity. As you begin the day feel supple, adaptable, and move with endurance in mind.

Lose everything you know and just flow with each moment. Once in this stream, you will feel the power of relenting to process. Notice a feeling of harmony by the way ideas come to you.

The more you let go, the more clear insights follow.