Tao Te Ching 54

Let the Tao be present in your life and you will become genuine. Let it be present in your family and your family will flourish. Let it be present in your country and your country will be an example to all countries in the world.

How do I know this is true? By looking inside myself.
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When we know, by looking deeply inside ourselves, that we are being genuine; when we know that our family is flourishing; when we know that our country is being an example to the entire world; then at those moments we are not experiencing three different forms of knowledge; we are experiencing one knowledge. Those seemingly different experiences are found in the same ground of being, a ground that we share with every living thing.

We have all come from the same source. Whether we are a theist who believes that all creation emerged from the light and word of God, or an atheist who believes that all energy and matter emerged from the one point that existed before the Big Bang – we believe in the Common Source, in the Unified Moment and Place, in the Singularity of Singularities.

When we touch truth, love and peace, whether in a genuine person, a flourishing family or an exemplary country, we are touching our home base. Without knowing it, we are admiring our own essence.

Genuineness is the same in every heart. Every genuine person, every loving person, every truthful person, and every peaceful person, feels the same to us. They seem different only in comparison to someone who isn’t genuine, loving, truthful, or peaceful. They each emit the same light and energy and we marvel at them without being aware of the shared light and energy that resides deeply inside us.

We appear genuine, truthful, loving and peaceful only when we allow that light and energy to flow in us, and then out of us. The genuine, truthful, loving and peaceful become translucent. People do not see through them as much as they see into them. If only we realized that at that moment we are looking into a mirror and seeing our own reflection.
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Happy Birthday No. 5 to my grandson!