Even if you are not fond of yourself at a given moment, you are the living embodiment of everything that is right with the world. Even when you feel like crap and have made bad choices and performed poorly and done things that you wish you hadn’t, you are holy - because you cannot help but be holy. That’s part of the joy that is life on earth.

Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao.
It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it.
That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. (Mitchell, chapter 51)

Alan Watts talks about this, about how erroneous it is to ever indulge in the thought that you are in sin or out of step or untrue to yourself. You may be doing bad things, but you are not bad; you may be behaving incorrectly based on your goals and values, but you are not incorrect.

Isn’t that a bit of comfort?

Posted on April 10th, 2008 by James
Filed under: Self