Lao Tzu: If You Release These 7 Things, Nothing Can Be Taken From You

You hold on to everything: money, plans, reputation, people, your past. Lao Tzu taught that the desire to own is the root of your suffering. The more you keep, the more you must defend, and the less free you become.

Seven Taoist principles:
1. Nothing you own is truly yours
2. More to keep, more to protect
3. Owning an outcome destroys the process
4. Stop trying to own people
5. Identity is the most dangerous thing you own
6. Let go of your story about the past
7. Release even the need to keep

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