TAO OF SELF
How often have you felt that you cannot keep a grasp on your day, that circumstances or events seem to take over and you have little or no controlover your life?How frequently do you waken up and feel that it would be great just to stay in bed and not pull back the curtains to let the day in?Do you ever get the feeling that there is a bigger picture to things and noone has let you in on the secret?What about those around you that you love? Try and think of the amount of times you’ve wanted to be there for them, but instead, you just feel totally helpless and unable to meet their needs. Are headaches, aches, pains, lethargy and negative feelings becoming toofrequent?
Consideration of these daily problems makes it clear that the real ‘you’ isn’tin control the way you should be. The simple analogy of a car and the driverwithin – the car being your physical self and the driver being the real ‘you’ -is enough of a realisation to question the ‘greater picture’ and ask
Who are we?What are we about?Why are we?
and ultimately, if we could put the driver back in control of the car…
what could we achieve
? The philosophy behind the Tao of Self originates from an understanding thatthe physical body is nothing more than a vessel for something moreprofound, to use as a vehicle to aid us in our journey .
It is the way
of bringing the physical self and the larger, more abstract,spiritual (or higher) self together to become one.Even though we have not been shown how to love ourselves truly asindividuals. we
are
able to create a space for the lower and higher self tomeet and build a relationship together.
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