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Tao 29 Allow your life to unfold naturally Know that it too is a vessel of perfection Just as you breathe in and breathe out Sometimes you're ahead and other times behind Sometimes you're strong and other times weak Sometimes you're with people and other times alone To the Sage, all of life is a movement toward perfection So what need has he for the excessive, the extravagant, or the extreme? Excerpt From: Tzu, Lao. "Tao Te Ching." Jeremy P. Tarcher/penguin, 2008-01-10. iBooks. "Allow your life to unfold naturally" - seems simple enough. And yet… And yet this has been possibly the most difficult of life's lessons for me to learn. A younger version of me often said that I would rather hear God say "no" than to say "yes, but wait." I'm not sure when I became so impatient. As a child, I was often content to play for hours with the most simple of things. Sticks, mud, or Matchbox cars. I had n...