The Resilient Mind - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life - Wayne Dyer

Episode Date: June 2, 2024

Wayne Dyer was a renowned American self-help author and motivational speaker who dedicated his life to inspiring others to live their best lives. Born on May 10, 1940, in Detroit, Michigan, Dyer began his career as a high school guidance counselor before transitioning to writing and speaking full time.Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download Now⁠⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life with Wayne Dyer. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. This is a program about changing your life. Not in the traditional way that we think of when we think about changing our lives. Usually that means changing your behaviors, retraining yourself. getting new habits, going out and trying them out and changing your life.

This is about changing your thoughts, and then your life will change. Change your thoughts, change your life. It's the name of this program, it's the name of the book. It is something that I very, very strongly endorse, that we have within us, the ability and the capacity through the way that we use our minds and the way that we process things and events to make our lives totally, shift and change around. And I can tell you that it doesn't make any difference what age you are. Whether you're a teenager watching this, or whether you're someone in your 60s, 70s, 80s, or anywhere

along the way, you can make that change. And I'll tell you, it happened for me. Two years ago, on the 10th of May, I turned 65. And the next day, on the 11th of May, I turned 65, and the next day, on the 11th of May, I had a life-changing thing take place for me. I changed the way that I was thinking about who I am, about what kind of a man I am, about what kind of a person I intend to be for the rest of my life and where I'm going, and something began to resonate with me

that I had to make a shift and make a change at the age of 65. I had a wonderful office, which was really a townhouse. It was filled with over 20,000 books. It was filled with clothing. It was filled with records of all kinds. It had pictures on the wall. I had awards that I had received over the years, and everything that I had accumulated, literally in this physical world,

had accumulated in that office. I turned the key and handed it to my manager, Maya, who's been with me for almost 30 years, and I said, I would like you to sell everything or distribute everything that's in there. Sell the townhouse, get rid of it, take all the records, all the books, I got rid of my shoes,

and I left it all behind and turned it over to her to get rid of everything. I detached myself from a lifetime of accumulations, and I moved full-time to a place over in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on one of our great islands called Maui. And in the next months, I began to get a lot of things coming to me

about what my life was to unfold, things that I wasn't even expecting. And I think about this idea about what age you are and whether or not changes and shifts can be made and how difficult so many people attribute this. They say, that's an impossibility. I couldn't possibly do that. I'm so attached to all of these things.

Or I'm too old. I've been living in the same place too long, whatever it might be. Right here in this audience is one of the women that I revere. I think more than any other woman I can think of in the professional world. At the age of 60, she changed her thoughts, and her life changed dramatically. She started a publishing company called Hayhouse,

which is one of the world's largest publishers of spiritual and higher consciousness materials. She wrote a book called You Can Heal Your Life. She's here today. My name is Louise. Hey, Louise, would you stand up? Louise, with a great number of people from all over the world, just celebrated her 80th birthday. So I should look so good even at 60, all right? And I'm just so deeply honored that you're here, dear.

Thank you. What happened for me in the next few months was absolutely life-changing. I had a friend tell me who was severely addicted to all kinds of drugs and alcohol, who was basically very close to death. He refused all kinds of treatment. He wouldn't go through the programs and so on. But he read a book, and the book was called The Dole. the Tao to Qing, the Tao to Ching, T-A-O, T-E, C-H-I-N-G,

Tao to Ching. Tao, in ancient Chinese, means the way, the great way. T-E is the term that means the application of or the virtue of, and Qing, in ancient Chinese, means book. So it's the book for applying the virtue of living the way. That's what this book means. And he told me that, and I thought, I've heard of the Tao Te Ching.

I've heard of Taoism. I'm familiar with that. I had read about it. When I was in college, I'd even lectured a little bit about it when I was teaching at a university in New York City, at St. John's University.

It was something that I had sort of a cursory awareness of. But it wasn't something that I was really profoundly interested in. I was watching a TV show one night, and someone talked about the Tao on there. I walk into a bookstore and there's a copy of the Tao. This is all happening in the six months or so between when I had left

and knowing that it was time for me to detach myself from all of the things that had been so much a part of my life and move on into a new area of my life. So I couldn't resist it any longer. And I said, I really want to, I really want to read the Tao and I'm going to take the next year, a full year. And in that year, what I would like to do is I would like to read each verse. There are 81 verses in the Tao Te Ching. You can read it in an afternoon, but you can study it for a lifetime.

And in the studying of this, I said I would like to just take those 365 days for the next year. And in every four days, I am going to read one verse. Some of them are only four lines long. some of them are 12, 16 lines long. I'm going to create for myself a way of seeing if I can live this doll. And what I did was I would read it, then I would meditate on it, I would walk on it, I would go swim on it. When I would do yoga, I would practice it, and then I would sit down after the fourth day.

And I had a picture of the man who was considered to be the author of this, although there's no historical actual record of his name is Lao Tzu. This is the visage that I looked at. This is the image of an artist's drawing of Lao Tzu. In ancient Chinese means old man. Old man. He was the old man who was living in China in the time of the warring states, and he decided he didn't want any more to do with war and violence and hatred and killing

and all of the things that were so much a part of his world. And he got on his oxen, and he left. And before he left, to go off and be by himself, he dictated some 5,000 Chinese characters, these 81 verses that became the Tao Te Ching. There are some people who call the Tao Te Ching, the wisest book ever written. If you Google this thing called the Dao De Ching,

you'll come up with over 1,300,000 hits on the Dao Te Ching. Not only that, there are 14,000 translations of the Tao Te Ching that I have come across. So what I did is I took 10 of those translations, the ones that seem to be the most relevant, the ones that seem to have the most meaning to those people who lived in this part of the Western world, and I combined them into what I consider to be

the most useful translation of the Tao Te Ching. And each morning I would get up and I would look at this picture, and I would ask, what is it that you would say to the people who are living now at this time, given the conditions that we have in our life right here. What is it you would do? Many people call this a manual for achieving a way of life

that literally guarantees integrity, joy, peace, and balance in our life. Now, there was a man who was a contemporary of Lao Tzu. His name was Confucius. He was many years younger than Lao Tzu, but he kept hearing about this old man who had all of this great wisdom. And one day he decided that he was going to go, legend says, and visit Lao Tzu. And he spent a full day listening to this man because Confucius was someone in China who was trying to lay down all the rules of etiquette and how to conduct yourself and trying to dictate to the people what they should be. Lao Tzu had nothing to do with any of that.

And when he went to see Lao Tzu, he came back and he talked to all of his people. and this is what he said. He said, of birds, I know they have wings to fly with, of fish that they have fins to swim with, of wild beasts that they have feet to run with. For feet, there are traps. For fins, there are nets.

For wings, arrows. But who knows how dragons surmount wind and cloud into heaven. This day, I have seen Lao Tzu, and he is a dragon. And there he is, a dragon. And a dragon in ancient Chinese was a picture of someone or something that was so mysterious

and so difficult to comprehend because it could always be something else. It was a great teacher who came many years after that. His name was Rumi, who was a Jella Luden Rumi, who was a great poet, a Persian poet in the 14th century. And he had a line, he said, the day that you were born,

a ladder was set up to help you to escape from this world. I believe that the Tao Te Ching, and this thing that I have done, this change your thoughts, change your life effort that I spent one full year on every single day doing exactly what I just, said is a ladder that will help you to return. In the Tao, there's a very famous line, the 40th verse of the Tao says, returning is the motion of the Tao. Returning is the motion of the

Tao, so that all of us came from a divine spiritual essence, invisible. Everything in the world of form emanated from something that is formless. There was a split second when you went from non-being to being. And what Lao Tzu was trying to teach was to be able to return to that place from which you came and live your life from the spiritual perspective and become a God-realized being. Another great poet, T.S. Eliot, once said, we shall not cease from exploration.

And at the end of all of our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time. For the first time. What I'm asking you to do, and what Lao Tzu seemed to be saying was learn to die while you're alive. Because you will ultimately return.

All of us have a reality. return trip, a round-trip ticket when we came in, didn't we? But if you could learn to die while you're alive, and there's a great story, I have to tell you this story, I want to read this story to you, it's a

way to look at this idea of dying while you're alive. It goes like this. To die while we are alive gives us the only opportunity we will ever have to get outside of this package that houses

us temporarily. There's an ancient parable that repeated generation after generation by the spiritual masters of India, which illustrates this point. Listen to this wonderful story. A traveler from India went to Africa to acquire some local products and animals, and while in the jungle, he saw thousands of beautiful, multicolored talking parrots. He decided to capture a talking parrot and take it back as his pet. At home, he kept his parrot in a cage and he fed him and he gave him wonderful seeds and honey and played music for his pet. And generally, he treated him very well. When it was time for the man to return to Africa two years later, he asked his parrot if there was any message that he could deliver to the parrot's friends who were back in the jungle. Well, the parrot told his

master to say that he was very happy in his cage and that he was enjoying each day and to convey his love. Well, when the traveler arrived back in Africa, he delivered the message to the parrots back in the jungle. Just as he finished his story, a parrot with tears welling up in his eyes fell over dead. The man was alarmed and he decided that the parrot must have been very close to the parrot in the cage and that this was probably the reason for the sadness and for his demise. When the traveler returned to India, he told his pet what had happened. As As he finished his story, the pet parrot's eyes welled up with tears, and he kneeled over dead in his cage.

The man was astounded, but he figured that his pet died from the despair of hearing of the death of his close friend back in the jungle. The trader opened up the cage and tossed the dead bird outside onto the trash heap. Immediately the pet parrot flew up to a branch on the tree outside. The trader said to him, you're not dead after all. Why did you do that? You tricked me. And the parrot responded, because that bird back in Africa sent me a very important message. What was the message? The traitor wanted to know. He told me that if you want to escape from your cage, you must die while

you're alive. We must indeed die while we are alive in order to be able to look back at our waking consciousness and see ourselves trapped in our cage, which in our case is our body. And then we will see how unnecessary it is to remain caged. Isn't that a great story? I love that story. Yeah, you can applaud. What I encourage you to do is to create for yourself a sacred space. And in this sacred space, I would like you to place everything that has energy value to you, photographs. I have this photograph that I looked at every day for one year and began to talk to after a while. It's a little weird, but you began to get this idea. And those of you who wonder why I am wearing no shoes, I'd like you to know that where I live, you never walk into a sacred

space with your shoes on. It would be considered dishonorable to do so. And, And to me, this stage, this setting, this beautiful place, and this beautiful symbol is a sacred, sacred space. I live without shoes. I heard it said once that if you wear shoes everywhere you go, the whole earth will feel like leather. And it's nice to feel what the earth feels like and to feel that naturalness. So in that sacred space, you will feel the energy of the photographs, of the

of any mementos that you have, of pictures of your children, of drawings, of statues, of anything at all that you can think of. I have a beautiful sacred space, and it calls me. And as it calls me, when I go into that place that is so profoundly sacred to me, the most beautiful things begin to happen for me, particularly in the middle of the night when no one else is up, and I feel closest to God. and I feel closest to this beautiful old man who sent so many important messages to me through his Tao to Ching and in my meditations

to help me to create this program change your thoughts, change your life, living the wisdom of the Tao. What I would like to do now is to look at some of the key thoughts that I would like you to think about and consider changing. as you become a person who becomes more God realized,

that is, someone who has died but stayed alive and returned and went back on that return trip. The first of these thoughts to change is to change the idea that I can't trust in my own nature. To, I trust in my own nature. Did it ever occur to you that you have a nature? that that nature is so profound and is always calling you. You know it. No one else can know it.

No one else can impose it on you. No one else can tell you what it is that you feel in here, that you know is why you're here, and what you're doing here. There's no one else can explain that or explore that with you. You can't share it. Everything in the universe has a nature. Your dog has a nature. A crocodile has a nature.

A duck has a nature. A crow has a nature. A crow has a nature. nature. Everything has its nature. Everything has a Dharma, including you. But what we've learned and we've grown up to believe is that I can't trust in that nature. My nature, to trust in your nature, to know that you came from a divine place of well-being and to trust in it. Listen to this. Verse 38 of the Tao, a few lines. The great master follows his own nature and not the trappings of life. A truly good man is not aware of his goodness and is therefore good. Think about yourself the first moment of life, the very first moment, that spec when you went from nowhere,

NO-W-H-E-E-R-E to now here, NO-W-H-E-E-R-E, from nowhere to now here. Same thing, just a little question of spacing, just a little different spacing. So you went from nowhere, now you're in now here, and where do you think you're going? Nowhere. Nowhere. Right? Back to nowhere. Who out there watching? Who in this audience isn't going back to nowhere? That's where we're all headed. Back to nowhere. So in that split second, then you lived inside your mother's womb for nine months. And in that nine-month period of time, you trusted your nature. You didn't have a sonogram and say, my God, I don't have a nose. This is very scary.

What if it doesn't show up on time? You didn't do any of that. You trusted completely in your own nature, right? And so did your mother. There's very little that you can do. Because what you were to become, everything that this physical body needed was all handled in there, and also beyond what was needed for your physical world

in what Lao Tzu called the world of the 10,000 things. The 10,000 things. There's 10 zillion things, obviously, in the physical world, but that's how he named it, the world of the 10,000 things. And in that world of the 10,000 things, everything returns back to its source. But while you're in that place, and why wouldn't you believe, even maybe for a second,

that not only was my physiology all handled for me, but everything else that I needed, if I could just stop interfering with it and stop other people. from doing it, that everything I needed. And that's a big part of understanding, change your thoughts, change your life. It's a big part of that.

The idea that I have a nature that I can trust, not something that I have to be afraid of, and I can stop letting other people interfere with it as well. So what happens? We go through those nine months, totally uninterrupted. We have no questions, everything works out. And then what? We say the very first thing, we pop out after nine months.

we'll take over from here. That was good work. Nice work, God. Thank you very much. And so what we'll do is just sort of edge you out of here. So we edge God out. We take on an ego. E-G-O. And we edge out and we say, we'll take over.

And we have an ego. And this ego, what this ego does is it takes on a set of beliefs. And these beliefs are that I am what I have, that I am what I do, that I am what other people think of me. So we're raised to believe that the more stuff I accumulate, the more things that I get, this is who I am, the more that people like me, this is what I'll get,

and on and on it goes. I want to tell you a story. It's the story of one of my children. Her name is Tracy. We lived in Detroit when she was born. She came in as a little rebellious. She came in in the middle of the Detroit riots when they said, nobody is allowed to go out.

that goes out is going to be arrested and she said this would be a good time for me to show up which is exactly what she did so when she showed up after about the second or third year Tracy went to preschool and she came home from preschool she was about three and in that time she came home and she said she handed me a paper and it had a gold star at the top of the paper and I looked at it and I said and she said daddy daddy daddy daddy I got a gold I got a gold star. I said, I'm not really interested in gold stars. I said, but what are you doing? What is this? What is this? She said, well, we did something in school called adding and I got them all right and I know how to, I said, adding, I can't believe, you're

three. You can't learn to add when you're three and I went to this whole long thing about adding and how terrific it was and she could say, Daddy, the gold star, excuse me, but I was the only one in the class that got a gold star, I got them all right. I said, you know Tracy, I said, that some people just need to have gold stars, and teachers sort of like to give it out and make that the reason why you're doing something, and set you apart from everybody else. I said, but your dad doesn't really care much about that

and how you stack up with others, and they're going to be, I'm more interested in what you're learning. And she said, okay, she was used to that. She had a weird daddy, and she knew that. So about another month or so, she came home with a paper that had looked like it had had a gold star on it, but it had obviously been taken off. Her little thumbprints were all over, but there's a place that there'd been a gold star who was taken off. And I said, what's this? Oh, she said,

we're now doing subtraction. And I said, subtraction, that's amazing. And I took over by her dresser. I said, you know that money you've got in your piggyback? I put it in my pocket. I said, that's called subtraction. Isn't that great? She didn't give me that money back. We talked, talked about subtraction. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore. I said, honey, what happened? What was this? What was here at the paper? And she said, oh, she said that. She said, the teacher gave me one of those gold stars. I said, really? I said, well, what happened to it?

Oh, she said, I took it off. I said, well, what did you do with it? She said, I gave it back to her. I said, well, what did you tell her? She said, oh, I told her to give it to someone who needs that sort of thing. True story. Yeah. And there she is.

She's standing right here. She's going to be 40 this year. My daughter, Tracy. So what we have to do is learn how to take this ego of ours, this part of us that believes that who we are is what we have and what we do and what other people think of us. But remember, if you grow up believing that you are what you do, then when you don't, you aren't. And if you believe that you are what you have, when it's gone, you aren't. And if you believe that you are what other people think of you, your reputation,

which we raise people to believe, it's my, I have to be concerned with what other people think of me. take this ego and retrain it. And one of the ways that you do to retrain it is, first you take this idea that the ego has of fear. What are you afraid of? Anybody out there, what are you afraid of? Shift from fear to curiosity. Become curious about what you're afraid of.

That's what Lao Tzu taught me. Become curious about what you're afraid of. You're afraid of flying? Get curious about that. Get interested in that. You're afraid of snakes, you're afraid of disapproval, you're afraid, just shift from fear and say, I'm going to become more curious about what I'm afraid of. And then take all of the things that you're attached to, like all of your photographs,

like all of your furniture, like all of your clothing, like all of the stuff that you find so much attachment to, and start letting it go. Start letting it go. You know, the day that I turned that key on May the 11th and 2006, I didn't even know where I was going. I just knew there was a shift taking place. I felt freer than I'd ever felt, I think, in my life. In my mid-60s, out there on a whole new adventure,

and here we are talking about it on national television on PBS. Take that idea that you have to be attached to things and know that you came in with nothing, with no thing, and you're going to leave with nothing, with no thing, and understand that your life is a parenthesis in eternity. Live there without attachments. And then take your need to be in control of yourself, of others, of the situation, and shift from control to trust.

Begin to have a trust. Lao Tzu is profound about this, And each one of the 81 verses, it comes up about 60 times as you look at letting go and letting God, allowing yourself to trust in your nature, allowing yourself to no longer believe that everything has to be controlled by me and that other people no longer have to be in control of me as well.

Begin to trust, just like you did for the first nine months. You trust it. Your nose showed up. Your height showed up. Your eyes showed up. Your eyes showed up, whatever. It all showed up. It's all perfect.

Why not wander through your life and have this wonderful, peaceful knowing that it's all fine? And finally, shift from your sense of entitlement. Nobody can treat me that way. I'm entitled to have this. Well, I paid for that. I let go.

I mean, in one year, I let go of all of my entitlements. I don't feel I'm entitled to anything. I'm just here. Shift from entitlements to radical humility. Lao Tzu speaks about it so often. Stay humble, stay low. The greatest leaders are the ones who do the least, the ones who stay back and just model and allow.

And at the end of the day, in one of the verses of the Tao, it says, the people will say, we did it ourselves. We did it ourselves. In verse 49 of the Tao to Ching, here's an exact quote the sage is kind to the kind

and kind to the unkind because the nature of his being is kindness and also be wise and help all beings impartially abandoning none

you know what I do just before I did this program I have to admit I was nervous I was humbled by it. Who are you, Wayne Dyer? Who are you to read the Tao and believe that you can interpret it on television

and interpret it in a book and spend a year and say, I got real humble with that and you know what I say? Dao, which is just another word for God or source, or Krishna or Allah, or whatever you want to call it, guide me.

Guide me now. I have that awareness before I come out. If you knew, it says in the course in miracles, if you knew who walked beside you at all times, on this path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again. I remember Mother Teresa saying to a dear friend of mine who was asking, what could he do?

What could he do to do something for her? His name was Pat McMahon. He was on KTR Radio in Phoenix. And finally Mother Teresa said to him, you can do something for me. She said tomorrow morning, get up at 4 a.m. And go out onto the streets of Phoenix and find someone who's living there

who believes that he's alone and convince him that he's not. That's what you can do. That's how saints talk. That's how Lao Tzu spoke. Okay, let's go on to the next thing. thought to change. So you're changing from not trusting in your nature to trusting in your nature. You change your thought from I need more to what I call living contentment. What is this thing

about more? It's the mantra of the ego, isn't it? I have to have more. I have to collect more stuff. I have to have more friends. I have to have more money. It's more, more, more, more, more. where you came from came from nowhere. You don't need anything. It's a continuous bombardment that we are all exposed to in this whole world of believing that we have to have more. It's one of the reasons why I love public television so much. You don't see ads on PBS.

You don't have to be constantly exposed to the idea that you have to have more and you have to get more. And if you don't have this, then you're not complete and so on. So we get bombarded with this idea of attracting more. And Lao Tzu says, live contentment. Live in a state of being contented. Here's verse 81, the last verse of the Tao Te Ching. My favorite translation of it, and I put it right into the book.

Sages do not accumulate anything, but give everything to others, having more, the more they give. It's a great lesson. And my son Sands, who's, you know, we're very, very close. We just spent a couple of months together over in Maui, just being together. Just being. It was a divine time. And he came home with last summer.

He came home with four T-shirts that he loved. And I said, well, honey, I said, which one do you like the best? He said, well, that one over there, that blue one, it's got the writing, and it's got a surfer. And it's kind of. I said, that's great. I said, I'd like to have that one. He said, no, no, Dad, that's my favorite. That's the one I like the best.

I said, I know. I said, that's the one. Would you mind if I had that one? He said, I would mind a lot. If you had that one. He said, maybe you can have one. I'm not so crazy about this one over here. I said, so you're going to give me something you don't like?

I said, I want, that's the one. I love that because we have the same taste. Could I have that one? He said, Dad, you're crazy. He said, you can't have my favorite T-shirt. I said, well, I want you to think about that. I want you to think about detaching and letting go and not needing to have more.

And he's heard me talk about this stuff his entire life. So finally, he just, you know, I went in and I tried it on, and I said, ah, this thing looks so great. Looking in the mirror, you know what I'm saying? He said, Dad, that really is mine. I said, yeah, I said, but you're going to give it to me. He said, no, no. I said, well, just think about it, you know,

because I'm your dad, and I'd really like to have this. So he reluctantly parted with it. And so the next, that evening, I was still wearing the shirt and he looked at me and he said, oh, that's my shirt. I said, you know, Sam's, I said, you gave me the shirt. I said, I'm gonna wear this shirt until you are happy that I have your favorite shirt.

I'm never gonna take it off until you are happy. He said, well, you'll be wearing that shirt a long time. I said, well, that's okay. So I wore it the next day I got up, I slept in it that night, I got up the night. I did. I got up the next morning, I put it on, and that sans would come in and look at me. I said, oh, you're still not happy that you gave me something that you really love.

Because this is what it really means to be a sage. This is what it means to be a divine being, to be someone who's willing to depart with not the things they don't like, but what they do like. I wore it the next day, I wore it the next day, I wore it for two weeks. Take it off only to wash it, put it right back on. Two solid weeks. Each one of my children will tell you. Finally, one day he said, Dad, I'm so happy. I am so thrilled that you have that T-shirt.

I said, oh, that's great. I can finally take this thing off. I'm going to just give it away. But it's like, what a great lesson in that. The idea that you take, you know, there's a rule. It's called the 80-20 rule. And in the 80-20 rule, it says everything that you have, all of your stuff, 20% of it is what you use. All of your clothes in your closet.

20%, you just keep using the same 20% over and over. 80% of the clothing that you have in your closet for so many people is something that you never use. You don't wear. You look at it, you store it, you think, well, there might come a day. I can't part with that, even though you've been carting it around. Every time you move, you move it, and you put it. Take the 80% that you don't use, says Lao Tzu, and give it away. give it away.

Lao Tzu said that when your cup is full, stop pouring. When your cup is full, stop pouring. We have an obesity crisis in the United States in the Western world. The obesity crisis can be handled if you just read the Dow. If you realize in verse 33,

it says if you realize you have enough, you are truly rich. If you could just learn something called portion control, well you just take a bite and you say is my cup full stop pouring stop pouring in other words instead of filling yourself with

that which is already a surplus and the Tao it teaches us to take surpluses and to reduce them and to take deficiencies and increase them so that we create balance in our lives to be in balance you can take the jewelry that you don't use you can take the clothing that

And then once you've given away the 80% that you don't use, take one of the things that you really like and practice giving that away. It's such a wonderful way. Listen to this poem. It was written by a great Persian poet named Hafiz. It says, even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth,

you owe me. Just look, what happens with a love like that, it lights up the whole sky. It lights up the whole sky. There's no owing, there's no owing. You don't have to be, you can practice living a state of contentment. This was so powerful for me. You just can't imagine how good it felt for one entire year

to walk through every day and say, I'm content, I'm content. I start out every, morning of my life. The first words, Hafiz says, if there's only one prayer that you say every day, make it thank you. Just say thank you. That's how I start. Wake up, thank you, God. Thank you. Thank you, source. Thank you, Dow. Whatever you want to call. The opening line of the Dow says, the Tao that can be named is not the Tao.

As soon as you put a name on it, it dissolves. There's no name for it. It's just endlessly, invisibly, in a state of creating, out of a state of love. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.