Comments on: Effortless Success

By: tvance

tvance — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:14:13 +0000

I'm new to your website... I just wanted to add that from my energy healing and muscle testing that joint replacement is mostly due to the little bug causing Lyme Disease. Both me and my partner have made a study of this problem and the more I know of this, the more sure I am that all this joint problems are the little spirochete of Lyme disease. Good Luck with your joints! MMS or water purification drops will take care of this little bug and all other bad microorganisms. Blessings, Taylore PS: Some useful links: Water Purification Drops (MMS) Alternative Health Products and MMS

By: LifeCoachKaren

LifeCoachKaren — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:49:31 +0000

Hope your knee is continuing to heel. Sounds like you are on your way to being the bionic man.
Loving this post! Lots of thought-motivation! Wu wei brings me to thoughts of Being versus doing.
p.s. I carry the pocket version of Steven Mitchell’s translation. John C. Wu is another good one.

Thanks for always prompting us to our next level.

By: pat

pat — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:44:01 +0000

thanks for all the great comments- keep ‘em comin’

and wu-wei is very different from woo-woo, although i can make room for both. good catch.

and (and) thanks for putting up with me bitching about my knee. it’s better every day.

By: JB at MM

JB at MM — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:14:35 +0000

Wu Wei. Different from woo-woo.

Pat, my empathy for your knee. Take it easy and let it heal.

And thank you for summing up my Ultimate Goal in five words. I’ve been wasting words trying to explain it even to myself, when it was so simple. What I want is:

“multiple streams of passive income”

Pretty much sums it up.

By: sgrfan

sgrfan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:51:49 +0000

Great thought-provoking post, Pat. When we have to force things and deal with conflict we’re out of alignment with our highest good.
I also really like the Mitchell Tao, and not just because he’s Byron Katie’s husband. He has a wonderful way of expressing the essence in modern cultural terms that I miss in other translations.

By: BruceWChenoweth

BruceWChenoweth — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:30:33 +0000

“Multiple streams of income,” passive or not, is a concept that I have been trying to drill into the brains of my friends for years. A few listened, most didn’t. I now see those who didn’t all over the social networking sites, desperately seeking another single source of income to replace their unemployment checks. Those who “got it” are enjoying the freedom that comes from being unencumbered by their J. O. B.

Financial prosperity tends to be cyclic, like the flow of a stream. Although the chaotic runoff of early spring can be very exciting, and it’s power can literally change the face of the Earth, I get even more pleasure from the gentle flow of late summer and fall. The stillness of winter is a great time for reflection and meditation and cleansing in preparation for the next spring. It is all good, if we choose to allow that perception, and “go with the flow.”

When Napoleon Hill wrote and Roosevelt spoke the words “There is nothing to fear but fear itself” it was a slightly different time, but even then they could have written it as “There is nothing to fear but fear itself—and the news media that fertilizes it.”

Natural, organic, bovine-sourced fertilizer, I might add …

By: yakrider

yakrider — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:29:15 +0000

Hey Pat! Check out Stephen Mitchell’s NEWEST book…”The Second Book of the Tao”. Talk about epiphanies…
http://www.stephenmitchellbooks.com/transAdapt/secondTao.html

Jim

By: jhess56

jhess56 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:48:40 +0000

I always find campbell inspiring.I’ve been practicing more and more daily surrender of what I thought my life should be like,to make room for what God really has in store for me.

By: hollyjwood

hollyjwood — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:45:30 +0000

Wu Wei. Hmmmm, seems to have gotten me into a position of wanting to be in your position. I’ll have to think more about that when I get there.

In the meantime, I’m going to get back to playing with computer stuff and having fun.

By: thewordless

thewordless — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:34:19 +0000

Me, too.
I put my take on the tao here:
http://www.wordless.us/Tao.html

where I chickened out on selling anything. But here’s the quote that goes to your point:

“There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.”

Wu Wei!?!