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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
May 8, 2024
The focus for today is:
As I increase my gratitude, I experience an ease and lightness in all I do.
Today's inspiration was written by Gregory Ripley:
If we turn our minds to the spiritual and remain mindful throughout our day, our lives will become more joyful. We’ll find an increased sense of gratitude and contentment, and we’ll experience an ease and lightness in all we do.
Now this isn’t to say we won’t have challenging events in our lives. The change won’t necessarily come in the events of our lives, in the things that happen to us, but in how we experience and respond to them.
We may find that once we begin responding differently to events, it may seem like there is less drama. We will still have problems, but we may no longer have a problem with our problems, so to speak.
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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
Being Mindful and Cultivating the Tao
Written by Gregory Ripley.
Read the complete article here.
This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of gratitude, ease, and lightness (today and every day)
Comment from Marie: You know that old story: "How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice." Well, how do we get to experience a life of joy and contentment? Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude. And also another word that rhymes with gratitude (and is related in a way), attitude, attitude, attitude. Wishing you a day where you harbor an attitude of gratitude!
Our focus for today: As I increase my gratitude, I experience an ease and lightness in all I do.
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RELATED BOOK: The Hundred Remedies of the Tao
The Hundred Remedies of the Tao: Spiritual Wisdom for Interesting Times
by Gregory Ripley.
In modern Taoist practice, the emphasis is often on “going with the flow” (wu-wei) and not following any fixed rules of any kind. This may work well for an already enlightened Taoist Sage, but for the rest of us. As author and translator Gregory Ripley (Li Guan, ??) explains, the little-known 6th-century Taoist text called the Bai Yao Lu (Statutes of the Hundred Remedies) was created as a practical guide to what enlightened or sagely behavior looks like—and each of the 100 spiritual remedies are just as relevant today as they were when written over 1500 years ago.
Both scholarly and inspirational, this guidebook to Taoist spiritual living will help you learn to effortlessly go with the flow, deepen your meditation practice, and find the natural balance in all things.
For more info and/or to order this book, click here. Also available as an Audible Audiobook and a Kindle edition.
About the Author
Gregory Ripley (Li Guan, ??) is a Taoist Priest in the 22nd generation of the Quanzhen Longmen tradition as well as a Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Asian studies from the University of Tennessee and a master’s degree in acupuncture from Northwestern Health Sciences University. He is also the author of Tao of Sustainability and Voice of the Elders.
Visit his website: GregoryRipley.com
