have all of your stuff 20% of it is what
you use all of your clothes in your
closet 23 just keep using the same 20%
over 80% of the clothing that you have
in your in your closet for so many
people is something that you never use
you don’t work 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 so it’s love
to and give it away give it away loves
who says that when your cup is full stop
for it when your cup is full stop
chlorine we have an obesity crisis in
the United States in the Western world
the obesity crisis can be handled if you
just read the doll 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 stop calling
in other words instead of filling
yourself with with that which is already
a surplus and the Dow 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 it 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 says even after all this time the
son 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 always there’s no always 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 word javi
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 Dow that can be named is not
the Dow as soon as you put a name on it
it dissolves there’s no name for it it’s
just endlessly invisibly constantly in a
state of creating out of a state of love
the next thought that the doll teaches
us to change change your thoughts change
your life you really do see so much of
the previous PBS specials that I’ve done
on inspiration and intention these were
teaching people generically how to think
differently what Lao Tzu taught me was
what to specifically think in place of
thinking back instead of thinking that I
don’t trust my nature he said trust your
nature instead of saying I need more he
said you need less more is less that
comes right out of the dock next thought
move from thinking in a rigid way to
thinking and being flexible soft and
allowing from rigidity to softness what
a wonderful transformation that is I was
standing looking at with my son plan and
we were on Maui and we were looking at
water
as water was going against some rocks
and some cliffs and so on and in these
pictures in this in this moment I said
to my son I said which do you think is
stronger the water or the cliff the
water or the rocks which one do you
think is more powerful and stronger and
he said well he said the rocks obviously
they’re stronger and they’re bigger and
only two but I said water is very very
patient isn’t it how much chance to
those rocks have if there were if they
want to survive I mean what chance do
they have that would and and Lao Tzu is
speaking to us about understanding our
nature by examining how nature works and
then making it apply to our thoughts so
that a soft thought a thought that isn’t
a rigid thought a thought that doesn’t
say you have to be this way or you have
to be that way a thought that is not
stiff a thought that water he there are
so many references to water and what we
can learn from water here 75% water the
planet is 75% water we are water the
rest of us is just muscled water it’s
just it’s all water and water is soft
water can enter anywhere you get into a
conflict with somebody else and you
picture yourself as water you can enter
with water in any place that there’s an
opening if you can visualize yourself as
a being who moves into the space of
water if you can see yourself that way
you can just enter into those places and
the people that you love and your
children and your spouse and anyone at
all and and enter there softly here’s
verse 8 the supreme good is water which
nourishes all things without trying to
and verse 78 right smack out of the
doubt nothing in the world is softer and
weaker than water
but for attacking the heart the
unyielding nothing can surpass it there
is nothing like it here it is I asked
when they designed this set this
beautiful set of Thank You designers for
this I asked if I could have water on
the on the stage they did it they
figured it out there’s above now I’m
going to try to get some of this water
okay so you get down here and it just
stuff aller just scoop this up at night
okay no tighter you hold it the less
chance you have of doing anything with
it isn’t it how can I experience water
the way to experience water is to just
get saw just get unbending and there it
is that’s what water is the minute that
grass but the minute I try and Lao Tzu
is saying the same thing is true in
everything in your life the more you
glass the more you try to hold on to it
the more you try to be rigid with it the
less control you have them the softer
you are the less rigid you are the more
flexible you are as a person the more
you can accomplish and this is a great
way to practice in parenting as well and
this idea that a rigid thought how many
times have you heard this idea that if I
tell you something I’m going to stay
consistent with it we have a set of
rules these are the rules and we’ll do
it this way in the Dow it says the more
rules you make the more rule breakers
you create
it’s true the more rules you have in
your house about how everything has to
go we had in our house my wife would
have a big jar of mm penis you know
different with all these different
multicolored ones and so and the kids in
our house because we didn’t feed them
sugar and we didn’t give them sodas and
stuff like that so they you know they
were just more like a decoration every
once in a while someone would take them
they’d hardly ever be replaced now when
we had kids come over to our house who
weren’t ever allowed to have such
horrible things you should have seen
their behavior you know they would scoop
them up they’d be putting them in their
pocket and then get their curses and
they don’t put it up you know the whole
thing would be empty I said what are you
doing well well you mean you could just
have these whenever you want them as
well we don’t really have any rules
about that it’s just it’s not something
that we encourage or discourage it’s
just there it’s like Emerson had a
wonderful line he said a foolish
consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds a foolish consistency a rigid
consistency so that there are many
people who will say if I say it on
Monday you can be absolutely certain
that on Wednesday I’m going to believe
the same thing regardless of what might
happen on Tuesday now Tuesday might have
something real that you might want to be
changing your mind you might want to say
you know I thought that this time but
now I’ve seen this and now we can shift
and you can see how this can become when
and so much about the dollars on
leadership leadership in the family
leadership in the community leadership
geopolitically less rigidity more
openness more willingness to listen and
say I changed my mind because a foolish
consistency is the hobgoblin of
mind and what I believed on Wednesday
has changed because of what happened on
Tuesday now another important thing to
say to your children to your friends to
your lover to your spouse’s to whomever
to the people you work with words that
were so terrified to say but which give
us a sense of living with the DAO I
don’t know I don’t know I’ll look it up
say it I don’t know
doesn’t hurt say it again I don’t know
isn’t it fearful I make so many fear and
it’s like very freeing because my kids
call ask me something I think I don’t
know they say dad you know everything
you know everything I said well I don’t
know that and I’ll look it up but we’ll
try to find an answer to this but I
don’t quite know I know that what even
you know I spent 20 years running and I
ran every day for 20 years for 22 years
without missing a day 8 miles never
missed a day that’s Richard all right
I’m call that obsessive
but you brush your teeth every day I
used to say and you don’t call that
obsessive and you go to the bathroom
every day and you don’t think well he’s
obsessively doing that again today you
don’t do that but anyway what I learned
is that in even in the world of exercise
there are certain things that are built
in to make us widget to make us stiff to
make us hard and we live and we run and
we kick and we this is what we call get
working out there’s another kind of
working out that it’s ancient it goes
back to the time of Lao Tzu and before
which is called yoga and yoga means
union it means union with your source
and when you do yoga you can stay in the
same place you can do the equivalent of
eight miles nice to run eight miles I
had to run four miles that way turn
around
miles back and I’d be sweating now I can
do yoga and I can just stand in one
place in a 90 minute by being supple by
making myself stretched by not being
hard and rigid I can you know I can get
that out there I can get that leg up I
can do these kinds of things and nine
and ninety minutes later you know it’s
like I’m totally sweating until it and I
feel so different I used to when I would
go out at night to eat or something
after running so many miles running
marathons and doing those things I’d go
to get up and it would be okay it’s
going to take a little while everything
hotel that doesn’t happen anymore
because I’ve given up hard
I’ve given up being rigid and
substituted it for being supple for
being flexible for living a life in
which I don’t have to always be Sofia
listen to this verse of the daodejing
it’s one of my all-time favorites verse
number 76 a man is born gentle and weak
at his death he becomes hard and stiff
all things including the grass and the
trees are soft and pliable in life dry
and brittle in depth stiffness is thus a
companion in death flexibility is a
companion in life and it’s not just for
how you exercise it’s how you think how
you think
you use all of your clothes in your
closet 23 just keep using the same 20%
over 80% of the clothing that you have
in your in your closet for so many
people is something that you never use
you don’t work 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 so it’s love
to and give it away give it away loves
who says that when your cup is full stop
for it when your cup is full stop
chlorine we have an obesity crisis in
the United States in the Western world
the obesity crisis can be handled if you
just read the doll 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 stop calling
in other words instead of filling
yourself with with that which is already
a surplus and the Dow 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 it 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 says even after all this time the
son 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 always there’s no always 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 word javi
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 Dow that can be named is not
the Dow as soon as you put a name on it
it dissolves there’s no name for it it’s
just endlessly invisibly constantly in a
state of creating out of a state of love
the next thought that the doll teaches
us to change change your thoughts change
your life you really do see so much of
the previous PBS specials that I’ve done
on inspiration and intention these were
teaching people generically how to think
differently what Lao Tzu taught me was
what to specifically think in place of
thinking back instead of thinking that I
don’t trust my nature he said trust your
nature instead of saying I need more he
said you need less more is less that
comes right out of the dock next thought
move from thinking in a rigid way to
thinking and being flexible soft and
allowing from rigidity to softness what
a wonderful transformation that is I was
standing looking at with my son plan and
we were on Maui and we were looking at
water
as water was going against some rocks
and some cliffs and so on and in these
pictures in this in this moment I said
to my son I said which do you think is
stronger the water or the cliff the
water or the rocks which one do you
think is more powerful and stronger and
he said well he said the rocks obviously
they’re stronger and they’re bigger and
only two but I said water is very very
patient isn’t it how much chance to
those rocks have if there were if they
want to survive I mean what chance do
they have that would and and Lao Tzu is
speaking to us about understanding our
nature by examining how nature works and
then making it apply to our thoughts so
that a soft thought a thought that isn’t
a rigid thought a thought that doesn’t
say you have to be this way or you have
to be that way a thought that is not
stiff a thought that water he there are
so many references to water and what we
can learn from water here 75% water the
planet is 75% water we are water the
rest of us is just muscled water it’s
just it’s all water and water is soft
water can enter anywhere you get into a
conflict with somebody else and you
picture yourself as water you can enter
with water in any place that there’s an
opening if you can visualize yourself as
a being who moves into the space of
water if you can see yourself that way
you can just enter into those places and
the people that you love and your
children and your spouse and anyone at
all and and enter there softly here’s
verse 8 the supreme good is water which
nourishes all things without trying to
and verse 78 right smack out of the
doubt nothing in the world is softer and
weaker than water
but for attacking the heart the
unyielding nothing can surpass it there
is nothing like it here it is I asked
when they designed this set this
beautiful set of Thank You designers for
this I asked if I could have water on
the on the stage they did it they
figured it out there’s above now I’m
going to try to get some of this water
okay so you get down here and it just
stuff aller just scoop this up at night
okay no tighter you hold it the less
chance you have of doing anything with
it isn’t it how can I experience water
the way to experience water is to just
get saw just get unbending and there it
is that’s what water is the minute that
grass but the minute I try and Lao Tzu
is saying the same thing is true in
everything in your life the more you
glass the more you try to hold on to it
the more you try to be rigid with it the
less control you have them the softer
you are the less rigid you are the more
flexible you are as a person the more
you can accomplish and this is a great
way to practice in parenting as well and
this idea that a rigid thought how many
times have you heard this idea that if I
tell you something I’m going to stay
consistent with it we have a set of
rules these are the rules and we’ll do
it this way in the Dow it says the more
rules you make the more rule breakers
you create
it’s true the more rules you have in
your house about how everything has to
go we had in our house my wife would
have a big jar of mm penis you know
different with all these different
multicolored ones and so and the kids in
our house because we didn’t feed them
sugar and we didn’t give them sodas and
stuff like that so they you know they
were just more like a decoration every
once in a while someone would take them
they’d hardly ever be replaced now when
we had kids come over to our house who
weren’t ever allowed to have such
horrible things you should have seen
their behavior you know they would scoop
them up they’d be putting them in their
pocket and then get their curses and
they don’t put it up you know the whole
thing would be empty I said what are you
doing well well you mean you could just
have these whenever you want them as
well we don’t really have any rules
about that it’s just it’s not something
that we encourage or discourage it’s
just there it’s like Emerson had a
wonderful line he said a foolish
consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds a foolish consistency a rigid
consistency so that there are many
people who will say if I say it on
Monday you can be absolutely certain
that on Wednesday I’m going to believe
the same thing regardless of what might
happen on Tuesday now Tuesday might have
something real that you might want to be
changing your mind you might want to say
you know I thought that this time but
now I’ve seen this and now we can shift
and you can see how this can become when
and so much about the dollars on
leadership leadership in the family
leadership in the community leadership
geopolitically less rigidity more
openness more willingness to listen and
say I changed my mind because a foolish
consistency is the hobgoblin of
mind and what I believed on Wednesday
has changed because of what happened on
Tuesday now another important thing to
say to your children to your friends to
your lover to your spouse’s to whomever
to the people you work with words that
were so terrified to say but which give
us a sense of living with the DAO I
don’t know I don’t know I’ll look it up
say it I don’t know
doesn’t hurt say it again I don’t know
isn’t it fearful I make so many fear and
it’s like very freeing because my kids
call ask me something I think I don’t
know they say dad you know everything
you know everything I said well I don’t
know that and I’ll look it up but we’ll
try to find an answer to this but I
don’t quite know I know that what even
you know I spent 20 years running and I
ran every day for 20 years for 22 years
without missing a day 8 miles never
missed a day that’s Richard all right
I’m call that obsessive
but you brush your teeth every day I
used to say and you don’t call that
obsessive and you go to the bathroom
every day and you don’t think well he’s
obsessively doing that again today you
don’t do that but anyway what I learned
is that in even in the world of exercise
there are certain things that are built
in to make us widget to make us stiff to
make us hard and we live and we run and
we kick and we this is what we call get
working out there’s another kind of
working out that it’s ancient it goes
back to the time of Lao Tzu and before
which is called yoga and yoga means
union it means union with your source
and when you do yoga you can stay in the
same place you can do the equivalent of
eight miles nice to run eight miles I
had to run four miles that way turn
around
miles back and I’d be sweating now I can
do yoga and I can just stand in one
place in a 90 minute by being supple by
making myself stretched by not being
hard and rigid I can you know I can get
that out there I can get that leg up I
can do these kinds of things and nine
and ninety minutes later you know it’s
like I’m totally sweating until it and I
feel so different I used to when I would
go out at night to eat or something
after running so many miles running
marathons and doing those things I’d go
to get up and it would be okay it’s
going to take a little while everything
hotel that doesn’t happen anymore
because I’ve given up hard
I’ve given up being rigid and
substituted it for being supple for
being flexible for living a life in
which I don’t have to always be Sofia
listen to this verse of the daodejing
it’s one of my all-time favorites verse
number 76 a man is born gentle and weak
at his death he becomes hard and stiff
all things including the grass and the
trees are soft and pliable in life dry
and brittle in depth stiffness is thus a
companion in death flexibility is a
companion in life and it’s not just for
how you exercise it’s how you think how
you think
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