Dr. Wayne W. Dyer - Living the Wisdom of the Tao: The Complete Tao Te Ching and Affirmations

BOOKS

Being in Balance
Change Your ThoughtsChange Your Life
Everyday Wisdom
Everyday Wisdom for Success
Excuses Begone!
Getting in the Gap (book-with-audio-download)
Good-bye, Bumps! (childrens book with Saje Dyer)
I Am (childrens book with Kristina Tracy)
I Can See Clearly Now
Incredible You! (childrens book with Kristina Tracy)
Inspiration
The Invisible Force
Its Not What Youve Got! (childrens book with Kristina Tracy)
My Greatest Teacher (with Lynn Lauber)
No Excuses! (childrens book with Kristina Tracy)
The Power of Intention
The Power of Intention gift edition
A Promise Is a Promise
The Shift
Staying on the Path
10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace
Unstoppable Me! (childrens book with Kristina Tracy)
Your Ultimate Calling
Wishes Fulfilled

AUDIO/CD PROGRAMS

Advancing Your Spirit (with Marianne Williamson)
Applying the 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace
The Caroline Myss & Wayne Dyer Seminar
Change Your ThoughtsChange Your Life (unabridged audio book)
Change Your Thoughts Meditation
Divine Love
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Unplugged (interviews with Lisa Garr)
Everyday Wisdom (audio book)
Excuses Begone! (available as an audio book and a lecture)
How to Get What You Really, Really, Really, Really Want
I AM Wishes Fulfilled Meditation (with James Twyman)
I Can See Clearly Now (unabridged audio book)
The Importance of Being Extraordinary (with Eckhart Tolle)
Inspiration (abridged 4-CD set)
Inspirational Thoughts
Making the Shift (6-CD set)
Making Your Thoughts Work for You (with Byron Katie)
Meditations for Manifesting
101 Ways to Transform Your Life (audio book)
The Power of Intention (abridged 4-CD set)
A Promise Is a Promise (audio book)
Secrets of Manifesting
The Secrets of the Power of Intention (6-CD set)
10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace
There Is a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
The Wayne Dyer Audio Collection/CD Collection
Wishes Fulfilled (unabridged audio book)

DVDs

Change Your ThoughtsChange Your Life
Excuses Begone!
Experiencing the Miraculous
I Can See Clearly Now
The Importance of Being Extraordinary (with Eckhart Tolle)
Inspiration
Modern Wisdom from the Ancient World
My Greatest Teacher (a film with bonus material featuring Wayne)
The Power of Intention
The Shift, the movie (available as a 1-DVD program
and an expanded 2-DVD set)
10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace
Theres a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
Wishes Fulfilled

MISCELLANEOUS

Change Your ThoughtsChange Your Life Perpetual Flip Calendar
Everyday Wisdom Perpetual Flip Calendar
Inner Peace Cards
Inspiration Perpetual Flip Calendar
The Power of Intention Cards
The Power of Intention Perpetual Flip Calendar
The Shift Box Set (includes The Shift DVD and
The Shift tradepaper book)
10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace Cards
10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace gift products:
Notecards, Candle, and Journal

All of the above are available
at your local bookstore, or may be ordered by visiting:

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Hay House Australia: www.hayhouse.com.au
Hay House UK: www.hayhouse.co.uk
Hay House India: www.hayhouse.co.in

Copyright 2008 by Wayne W. Dyer

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Editorial supervision: Jill Kramer Design: Amy Rose Grigoriou

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The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dyer, Wayne W.

Living the Wisdom of the Tao: The complete tao te ching and affirmations / Wayne W. Dyer.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4019-2149-1 (tradepaper) 1. Laozi. Dao de jing. 2. Adaptation, Psychological. 3. Lifestyle. 4. Thinking. I. Title.

BL1900.L35D94 2008

299.51482--dc22

2007038306

Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-2149-1

eBook ISBN: 978-1-4019-3246-6

For Kerry.
10,000 thank-yous
for your beautiful soul.

This book offers you an opportunity to internalize and directly experience the great wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, a collection of 81 verses authored by Lao-tzu, a Chinese prophet who was also the keeper of the imperial archives in the ancient capital of Luoyang. Seeing the continual decay during a period of warring states, Lao-tzu decided to ride westward into the desert. At the Hanku Pass, a gatekeeper named Yin Hsi, knowing of Lao-tzus reputation for being a man of wisdom, begged him to record the essence of his teaching. Thus, the Tao Te Ching was born out of 5,000 Chinese characters some 25 centuries ago.

The words Tao Te Ching translate to living and applying the Great Way. The Tao is considered by many scholars to be the wisest book ever written. Although it is just 81 short verses, it encourages you to change your life by literally changing the way you think. By reading through the verses presented here (which Ive pieced together after reviewing hundreds of translations*)along with the corresponding affirmation Ive created for each verseyoull be embarking on a path that encompasses the profound ideas that Lao-tzu intended to convey.

By absorbing these powerful new thoughts and imprinting them onto your consciousness, you will begin to see the world and all of its people in a new way. That is precisely what it has done for me. Reading the Tao and incorporating this philosophy into my life has changed me forever.

I created this book to provide you with a simple yet direct experience for changing your thoughts and ultimately changing your life. Through the steady use of this relaxing Tao-centered work, you will begin to live in harmony with your own nature, feeling more at home than you ever felt before and living what is called a truly God-realized life.