The following is the 23rd verse of the Tao Te Ching that I took from Wayne Dyer's , Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life.

I found this passage particuraly prophetic because as I was reading it, Southern California is going through a week long

series of heavy storms. Like misfortunes that happen to us in life, the saying,"This too shall pass" comes to mind.

To talk little is natural:
Fierce winds do not blow all morning:
a downpour of rain does not last the day:
Who does this? Heaven and earth.

But these are exaggerated, forced effects,
and that is why they cannot be sustained.
If heaven and earth cannot sustain a forced action,
how much less is man able to do?

Those who follow the Way
become one with the Way.
Those who follow goodness
become one with goodness.
Those who stray from the Way and goodness
become one with failure.

If you conform to the Way, it's power flows through you.
Your actions become those of nature,
your ways those of heaven.

Open yourself to the Tao
and trust your natural responses...
then everything will fall into place.

The Tao was written by Lao-tzo over 2,550 years ago.
I believe that many of our own religious beliefs mirror the wisdom written here.
Feel free to substitute Tao with your own belief like God or the universe.

For basically the message is like what Wayne Dyer is fond of saying:
Let go and let God.

Bob Miller
StrokesSuck.com