Lao Tzu: How to Love Yourself

September 14, 2024 by Kathleen Mary Willis

5 ways to love yourself
and be in the flow of your life
using the philosophy of Lao Tzu

With thanks to Ken

This ancient Chinese philosopher was the founder of Taoism and author of its masterful text, the Tao Te Ching.

Lao Tzu suggests that life is like the course of a river, effortlessly following its own path, embodying the natural flow of life.

Being in the ‘Flow’ is about leading your life’s course with minimal resistance.

It is about allowing the course of your life to unfold, whilst making conscious decisions—even while accepting it.

Notable Excerpt:

“The river advances serenely, undisturbed by judgments or expectations.

“But if you care about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner…

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others.”

The 5 steps discussed are the following:

1. 1. Embrace your natural state
  2. Let go of self-judgement
  3. Live in the present
  4. Trust the unfolding of the Tao (life’s natural order)
  5. Cultivate inner stillness

This post found at GoodTalks:

How To Love Yourself: 5 Ways to Let Go of the River Bank and Go With the Flow

Archangel Michael: Everything that has need to be eliminated, everything that has need to be relinquished, everything that has need to be healed in this cesspool that we call ‘chaos’ has need to come to the surface.
Otherwise – and this has happened many, many times in human history – what happens is there is a belief [that] there is a healing, an accommodation, a remedy, and then the human collective tends to think, ‘Okay, now it is cleaned up. Now it is healed. Now it is done.’
But the core – the core issues of the collective, and of course of the individuals – has not been addressed, and therefore it simply settles in and it festers.

(“Archangel Michael on Why All This Conflict is Occurring,” September 28, 2023, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=348361.)

Divine Mother: [I am speaking about] those in … positions where control and abuse of power have been rampant. That will not be the platform [from] which integration of the various galaxies [into the new, interdimensional region of space] takes place. That is not the Plan.
I know very clearly, sweet one, as do you, if it is not [in] my Plan, then it will not occur. (The Divine Mother in “Enter the Delegations – Part 2/3,” May 5, 2019, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/05/05/enter-the-delegations-part-2-3/.)

Beloved child, son of my heart, [Ascension, spiritual evolution] is only about love, about the many expressions, about the many forms.
And truly of anchoring and being nothing but the love, in intellect, in wisdom, in sharing, in adventure, in relationship.
It can only be [that way] when you continue to bring all adventures, all arguments, all explorations back to the love.
(The Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 30, 2019; also at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/06/01/the-divine-mother-it-is-all-a-journey-of-love/).

Archangel Gaia said
“I am now telling you what your mission is on Earth – it is to be an angel on Earth.
“You do not have to change the people around you; you do not have to get involved in politics, or that kind of activity.
“What you are meant to do here as a lightworker is to anchor a certain vibration.”
(Gaia, ”Earth Speaks: Your Mission on Earth,” through Pamela Kribbe, March 13, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/03/13/earth-speaks-your-mission-on-earth/.)