Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara.

And in this episode, we are going to talk about why this moment is it.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the Tao Te Ching.

And this is titled This Is It. Always we hope someone else has the answer. Some other place will be better. Some other time it will all turn out.

This is it.

No one else has the answer.

No other place will be better, and it has already turned out.

At the center of your being, you have the answer.

You know who you are and you know what you want.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing, nor to peer from a window.

Rather, abide at the center of your being, for the more you leave it, the less you learn.

Okay, so as with all of the passages and poems I share here, notice how this one lands. I know for me this lands in different ways. It's a part of it that

resonates deeply as truth and pointing to something very important, reconnecting me to my practice, the felt sense of my practice.

And there are other parts of it that, well, make me want to argue with the passage,

especially the line, the second passage that goes, second paragraph, this is it, no one else has the answer.

No other place will be better. No other place will be better. You know, that's an interesting

one. It can sometimes be hard to hear. It could be actually triggering, make us push back.

It's like, actually, no, where I'm at right now is not good. It's painful.

Or I'm struggling. My community is struggling. Our world is struggling. And I can imagine a place

in the future that is better. And so that reality is there. And I don't actually think Lao Tzu would argue that, would dismiss that point.

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