Summary of Dr. Wayne W. Dyer's Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

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#1 The Tao is both named and unnamed. It is unknowable and unseeable, but it is also invisibly within everything. When we desire to see the mystery of the Tao, we must let go of trying to define it in terms of the outer world of form.

#2 The 10,000 things that Lao-tzu refers to in the passage represent the categorized, classified, and scientifically named objects of the earth. Yet for all our technological expertise and scientific categorization, we can never truly create a human eye or liver.

#3 Don’t try so hard to make things work, and don’t always try to understand your partner, your children, your parents, or your boss. The Tao is always working. When expectations are shattered, practice allowing that to be the way it is.

#4 The labeling process is what most of us were taught in school. We studied hard to be able to define things correctly in order to get what we called high grades. But we know, without anyone telling us, that there is no title, degree, or distinguishing label that truly defines us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669389361

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Tao is both named and unnamed. It is unknowable and unseeable, but it is also invisibly within everything. When we desire to see the mystery of the Tao, we must let go of trying to define it in terms of the outer world of form.

#2

The 10,000 things that Lao-tzu refers to in the passage represent the categorized, classified, and scientifically named objects of the earth. Yet for all our technological expertise and scientific categorization, we can never truly create a human eye or liver.

#3

Don’t try so hard to make things work, and don’t always try to understand your partner, your children, your parents, or your boss. The Tao is always working. When expectations are shattered, practice allowing that to be the way it is.

#4

The labeling process is what most of us were taught in school. We studied hard to be able to define things correctly in order to get what we called high grades. But we know, without anyone telling us, that there is no title, degree, or distinguishing label that truly defines us.

#5

Today, notice an instance of irritation or annoyance you have with another person or situation. Decide to do the Tao in that moment by turning inward with curiosity about where you are on the continuum between desire and allowing. Allow the paradox of wanting the irritant to vanish and allowing it to be what it is.

#6

The difficult is born in the easy. The sage lives openly with apparent duality and paradoxical unity. The sage can act without effort and teach without words. He works, but not for rewards.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The concept of beauty is based on the idea of duality and judgment. The perfection of the Tao is allowing apparent duality while seeing the unity that is reality. Life and death are identical. Virtue and sin are judgments, and both must exist for us to identify either.

#2

The world of oneness is a place where you can be free of the constraints of good and bad, right and wrong. It is a place where you can practice the Tao, and it can be experienced even in the embodied condition.

#3

Effort is one part of the whole, and non-effort is another. When you fuse these two dichotomies, you achieve effortless action without attachment to outcome.

#4

Do the Tao today by noticing an opportunity to defend or explain yourself, and choosing not to. Instead, turn within and sense the texture of misunderstanding. Don’t get caught up in the apparent duality of being right or wrong.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The third verse of the Tao Te Ching advises us to rearrange our priorities to ensure contentment. We must replace personal desires with the Tao-centered question: How may I serve. By simply changing these kinds of thoughts, we will begin to see major changes taking place in our lives.

#2

You must stop pushing yourself and feel gratitude and awe for what is. Your life is controlled by something far bigger and more significant than the petty details of your lofty aspirations.

#3

The Tao is working for and with you, so you don’t have to remind it of what you crave or what it has forgotten on your behalf. Trust the harmony of the Tao. It took care of everything you needed in your creation and your first nine months of life without any assistance from you.

#4

The Tao is the path that leads you to contentment. It is the practice of doing nothing, and it is through your feelings that the path will be revealed. Trust it and do not do anything.

Insights from Chapter 4

#1

The Tao is the source of all life, but it is also empty and limitless. It cannot be constrained, quantified, or measured. It

Reviews for Summary of Dr. Wayne W. Dyer's Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

[Charbel Haddad · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Good book, inspiring and gives a new perspective for life to see it from different angle.