Who You Are

Tao Te Ching:

When you look for it, there is nothing to see.
When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear.
When you use it, it is inexhaustible
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If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever

If something looks beautiful to you,
something else must be ugly.
If something seems good,
something else must seem bad.

You can't have
something without nothing.
If no job is difficult,
then no job is easy.
Some things are up high
because other things are down low.
You know you're listening to music
because it doesn't sound like noise.
All that came first,
so this must be next.

The Masters get the job done
without moving a muscle
and get their point across
without saying a word.

When things around them fall apart,
they stay cool.
They don't own much,
but they use whatever's at hand.
They do the work
without expecting any favors.
When they're done,
they move on to the next job.
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When you have nothing to say,
you may as well keep your mouth shut.
The wind and the rain
don't go on forever.
If nature knows enough
to give it a rest sometimes,
so should you.

If you're ready for Tao,
you can live with Tao.
If you're ready to succeed,
you can live with success.
If you're ready to fail,
you can live with failure.

Trust your instincts,
and others will trust you.
That's why their work is so damn good..
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~Translation by Ron Hogan

At ANY moment, you can CHOOSE to have it ALL!

AT A CERTAIN POINT life has no more secrets to reveal.

You live as if there is one reality, and in return it repays you richly. The fear born of duality is gone, replaced by an unshakable contentment.

Awareness has become fully aware of itself.

When we reach this stage of freedom, life starts over, which is why enlightenment is rightly called a second birth.

• Who am I? You are the totality of the universe acting through a human nervous system.
• Where did I come from? You came from a source that was never born and will never die.
• Why am I here? To create the world in every moment.

~Deepak Chopra

The Unseen: The Quicker Path: Neale Donald Walsch in Conversations With God, Book One:
The highest feeling is perfect love. ...your soul ... is perfect love - and it knows this. Yet it wishes to do more than know it. It wishes to be in its experience. ...(And, yet) Having made this judgment about yourself (that you are bad), you have decided that your job is to get better.

It's okay, mind you. It is the same destination in any event - it's just that there's a faster way, a shorter router, a quicker path. Which is?

Acceptance of Who and What You Are right now - and demonstration of that.

...it is far more difficult to deny Who You Are than to accept it.

You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest truth. You are these things.

...Choose to now know yourself as these things always.