Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life by Dr. Wayne Dyer is one of the most inspirational books I have ever read. I go to this book whenever I need help emotionally and mentally.
In this book, Dr. Dyer translates an ancient book of wisdom, the Tao Te Ching. He writes so beautifully and understandably while inspiring you to be a better person. Dr. Dyer writes in his own words how the Tao describes a way of living that is balanced, moral, and spiritual.
This book has helped me so much in the past. When I was having a hard time with a breakup, I would open this book. Anytime I needed a spiritual boost, I would open this book. When I felt like the world was consuming me, I would open this book. Anytime darkness and negativity enter, I open this book.
"What could be better than the freedom of going through life without feeling that people and circumstances control you without your permission?"
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In this book, Dr. Dyer translates an ancient book of wisdom, the Tao Te Ching. He writes so beautifully and understandably while inspiring you to be a better person. Dr. Dyer writes in his own words how the Tao describes a way of living that is balanced, moral, and spiritual.
This book has helped me so much in the past. When I was having a hard time with a breakup, I would open this book. Anytime I needed a spiritual boost, I would open this book. When I felt like the world was consuming me, I would open this book. Anytime darkness and negativity enter, I open this book.
"What could be better than the freedom of going through life without feeling that people and circumstances control you without your permission?"
Right now, I am feeling very sad and frustrated for a variety of reasons so I opened this book. Trying to figure out what kind of life we want to lead is very hard, stuck somewhere between consumerism and living in the wild. We always have a million things going on all at once adding giant piles of unwanted stress.
"Are you depressed? Irritated? Frustrated? Whatever your current state, if you believe a changing economic picture or a tapestry of events taking place around you is responsible - and you then use these external factors to explain your inner state of mind - you have lost touch with your root. The solution for life of unrest is choosing stillness."
"Of all the troubles reported in the media - including wars, terrorism, famine, hatred, crime, and disease - how many are the result of interfering with the natural unfolding of creation? How much of the essential nature of ourselves and our planet is able to shine through? What would Earth be like if governments did not meddle in everyone's lives? What if no one could be perceived as an enemy? Could there be a world where groups of people never got together to control others or to invade or conquer- how about where oceans, mountains, natural resources, air, plants, and animals were respected and allowed to flourish without any interference? Suppose that such place of simplicity and lack of interference existed... it would be acting exactly as the Tao does, doing nothing and yet leaving nothing undone. Now shift out of this highly imaginative scenario and begin to reconsider what's meant in this passage by the concept of powerful individuals transforming the world."
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