Daily Dose - Oct 7 2013 - MoonDay/Cancer/Yemanja - Dreams, Emotion & Perspective

• Are you dreaming right now? Seriously, think about it, check your reality, physically and mentally. Look at your hand, your surroundings, does everything look normal? Do you remember putting everything where it is now? Where were you 30 min ago and what were you doing? An hour ago? Scrutinize every detail that comes to mind. Do this twice an hour and you'll be well on your way to having lucid dreams. Keep a Dream Journal, too.
• We may seem small in the scope of things, but can lead big lives if we live in love.
• Have you ever thought, we are each at the center of our lives, our universe, and we experience each other and ourselves from this particular point of perception.
• Sincerely, we must know our emotions before we can control them. If that is what one is striving for.

"True perfection seems imperfect,

yet it is perfectly itself.

True fullness seems empty,

yet it is fully present.

True straightness seems crooked.

True wisdom seems foolish.

True art seems artless.

The Master allows things to happen.

She shapes events as they come.

She steps out of the way

and lets the Tao speak for itself."

- 45, Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell

Daily Dose - Oct. 6 2013 - SUN-day/Helios/Ra - Stillness, Gratitude and Master Oogway

• Do not let fear of vulnerability get in the way living the life you are called to live, nor in the way of loving others and letting them know it.
• ~ I'm more than half sure that's a proper use of 'nor', which I used because I was mostly certain 'or' would've been incorrect, right? x)
  
• If it's not spontaneous it's not Spirit.
  
• Through the body, we become mindful of the breath, and through the breath, we gain awareness of mindful stillness. From here, this mindful stillness, we can experience life joyfully, because we see that the more grateful we are for life, the more deeply we perceive, and likewise, the more there is to appreciate. If we feel at ease and peaceful within, create that for ourselves, life's situations and experience will reflect ease, satisfaction and fulfillment.
  
  "You mind is like this water my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear."
  - Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda

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"Fill your bowl to the brim

and it will spill.

Keep sharpening your knife

and it will blunt.

Chase after money and security

and your heart will never unclench.

Care about people's approval

and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.

The only path to serenity."

- 9, Tao Te Ching

Daily Dose - Oct 3, 2013

• When we judge anyone in anyway, we are actually judging ourselves. When we think someone is "closed off" or narrow minded, it is in fact our own self that is exhibiting and experiencing that condition.

• Remember, it is the natural tendency of everything and everyone to evolve. This is the path of least resistance.

From chapter 34, "Impermanence of All Things" of the Kural

• There is no baser folly than the infatuation
  that looks upon the ephemeral as if it were everlasting.
  - 331
• Do good deeds with a sense of urgency,
  before death's approaching rattle strangles the tongue.
  - 336

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"Success is as dangerous as failure.

Hope is as hollow as fear.

What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?

Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky.

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, 

you will always keep your balance.

What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?

Hope and fear are both phantoms

that arise from thinking of the self.

When we don't see the self as self,

what do we have to fear?

See the world as your self.

Have faith in the way things are.

Love the world as your self,

then you can care for all things."

- 13, Tao Te Ching