July Audiobook: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

My audiobook selection for July was another by Dr. Wayne Dyer. This time the book was Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life:  Living the Wisdom of the Tao.

This book focuses the entirety of its contents reviewing and digesting the 81 verses of the Tao Te Ching, a text authored by Lao-tzu in ancient China 500 B.C. These principles were the foundation of Taoism and significant influence upon much of eastern philosophy and religion, specifically eastern Buddhism. Like many, many people before him, Dr. Dyer was inspired to live a peaceful, meaningful life through the teachings in the Tao Te Ching and to hold reverence for God, the Tao.

Dr. Dyer studied ten of translations of the Tao Te Ching attempting to understand its truest meaning. After contemplating each verse, he then wrote an essay on each as his interpretation of its meaning in today's world. This was followed by suggestions on how to live the teachings in modern life. 

Many of us have heard several verses of the Tao Te Ching but never knew it, and more importantly, never understood the meaning. Taoist teaching is reference over and over and over again in eastern philosophy and religion. While I was not able to feel each word or understand each verse, I was able to understand the underlying concepts of peace, love of the natural world, surrender, and flow that is spoken of so often. I'm sure I will continue to hear these concepts over and over again as I continue through life on my journey to infinity.