The Power Of Water

When I was walking on the beach the other day, I saw a huge block of polystyrene with half-inch thick steel plate attached to either side of it.  The edges of the steel plate had been broken rather than cut, and I wondered what it had been and where it had come from.  The steel on both sides had become the home to a large number of large barnacles, so

By |2016-01-22T18:56:03+10:00January 22nd, 2016|Taoism|

The Way Of The Tao

Cassie I had a difficult week.  Nothing seemed to go right first time and I seemed to be very busy doing things I’d rather not be doing.  I kept encountering situations which made me either angry or upset. It all came to a head yesterday when I finally overcame all of the computer problems I had had, and I cried and cried with racking sobs, which left me

By |2015-12-18T18:11:29+10:00December 18th, 2015|Taoism|

Preserving Our Children

If you preserve your original qualities, you can govern anything. As I read this quote from the Tao Te Ching on Wayne Dyer’s Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life perpetual calendar, I couldn’t help but think of those who govern us now, both here in Australia and in countries around the world.  I wonder how many of those who govern us have preserved their original qualities. What are your

By |2015-11-20T17:41:48+10:00November 20th, 2015|Children, Taoism|

When the Tao Is Lost

The quote for May 30 from the Tao Te Ching, in Dr Wayne Dyer’s perpetual calendar: Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life, is this: When the Tao is lost, there is goodness.When goodness is lost, there is morality.When morality is lost, there is ritual.Ritual is the husk of true faith, the beginning of chaos.   My understanding of this quote is that, even when a strong connection to God

By |2015-05-29T16:52:09+10:00May 29th, 2015|Christianity, God, Islam, Religion, Taoism|

Nature Love

If you have read any of my earlier blogs, you will know that I know that there is no such thing as coincidence.  I know that everything is happening in divine order, especially when I ask for God’s will to be done, as I do at the end of my meditation first thing every morning and last thing before I go to bed at night. You may also know that