Why feel your way along?

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.” ~Tao Te Ching

Human beings learn, evolve or remember in infinite ways, including; reflection, imitation and/or experience.   How do you feel and understand stages of your own awakening?

See through the fear

Ask yourself what you sense when you hear the word, 'safe.'  What does it entail? Perhaps you imagine the feeling that the heart is totally fulfilled and all is well. Perhaps the mind suggests this is a mental understanding that you are free from danger or threat.  Somewhere, in the deepest part of oneself, unwavering security is.   

Consider what enables you to feel free from worry and what forces or situations trigger it. Notice common threads or patterns. What prevents you from experiencing an unwavering sense of security? What if mind is the start and end of fear? How does it resonate to begin to see though your own self-constructed illusions?

"Whomever can see through all fear will always be safe." -Tao Te Ching

What is proof of greatness?

Ordinary people think the "Great Tao" is actually useless.

That everyone thinks it is useless, is proof of how great it is. 

If it was the kind of thing ordinary people thought was useful, it would have disappeared long ago.

~Lao Tzu

One view is it takes alchemy to bring about fundamental, inner change. If you do not know alchemy, then you do not yet experience fundamental change.  Raising awareness invites you to shift vantage points, expand perspective and possibility.  How do you propose to expand if you live at the same level of conscious awareness that brought you to where you are?