Quotes from Lao Tzu

"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” 

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.” 

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” 

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” 

“The best fighter is never angry.” 

-Lao Tzu

The Essence of the Now

What do you do to keep the integrity of your wholeness? You nourish the body, nurture your soul and strengthen your bond to the Spirit. This means that anything opposite of this promotes separation. Whatever you do to your body, is it nourishing or depriving? Whatever you do to your soul is it nurturing or neglectful? Whatever action you are taking is it pulling you toward the Source or taking you away from it? In each moment you have a choice, which is determined by your level of awareness in the moment. Let's all wake up and be aware, and so it is!

What Is The Ego

The ego or identity is an illusion to keep us separate from our Source, Creator, God. Our true selves are one with all of creation. Within the universe, there is a scale; at one end is God and at the other end is darkness or the total absence of God. On our first incarnation ever, we did not have an ego, we were completely connected to our Source. Once the thoughts of doubt and fear were first introduced to us, our ego was born, along with our separation from God. This can be illustrated by the story of the garden of Eden, the eating of the apple represents the introduction of the thought of fear, the fear that God was withholidng something from Adam and Eve. Our soul is a carrier, it moves between these two spectrums of the scale, the more egotistical paradigms we carry, the closer we move to the dark side of the scale and separation from God. The more we follow our intuition, the closer we move toward unity with God.

 

Our purpose when we incarnate on earth is to be an expression of the Light, so our task is to reject the egotistical paradigms the dark side actively imprints on us, and thus move toward the Light and eternal life with the Source. The dark requires more darkness to survive and thus there is a struggle for our soul and what position it holds on the scale, but God requires nothing from us and therefore does not impose anything on us, we are free to choose. The ego represents the negative programming from the dark side, because before we are conscious of the dark side, we have no ego. Our soul's position on this scale will reflect in our expression, either expression of the Light, aligned with God's will or an expression of the dark, separated from God.