Lao Tzu – A Lighthouse for the Soul

Lao Tzu on How To Be a Dispassionate, but Compassionate, Observer

January 25, 2026 by Rob Loveland, posted in Channeling, spiritual guidance, spiritual info

Rob: Welcome Lao Tzu. My question is, how do we reconcile this idea of not getting wrapped up in external events, almost to the point of not caring. But it’s not really not caring. Of course we care. So how do we care without caring?

Lao Tzu: Greetings, all. It is my honor to be with you today, in this setting, within your circle, as you contemplate the deeper experiences of life, the meaning behind all that you experience. These are questions that everyone must grapple with at some point in their journey. So of course, all of us are so proud of the progress you are all making.

It is an interesting question, is it not? How do you go through life, filled with compassion for others, while at the same time recognizing it’s not your role to be involved in all that others are experiencing for themselves. And I would suggest to you that it is, in fact, an act of very deep caring [and] compassion to allow others to experience what they came to experience.

It may not be your path. You may look upon the events as something you would never choose for ANY society that would experience love and ask yourself, “Why would you do that?! How does that make the world a better place?”

But it is all for a purpose, so your act of compassion is to allow others to experience what they came to experience. Let them choose for themselves. If you go through life trying to control how others behave, how others think, what others believe, where is the caring in that? That would be you trying to impose your will on another. That’s not exhibiting a care for them. That’s, again, you trying to exert your control based on YOUR beliefs, based on your understanding within your own journey. They have theirs; you have yours, so allow them to be.

As your teammate said, let it be, not in an uncaring way, but with the mindset that you care enough for them to let them be who they are. Approach all events that occur to you in your life from that perspective. THAT is the loving response.

The only force in the universe that truly matters is love. Ask yourself every day, what is the loving response to anything that you see? If it does not feel like love, whatever it is that you witness, and you say to yourself, “I don’t see the love in that,” then choose, choose that that is NOT the way that you want to go.

And as you constantly come back, within your own heart, to that feeling of love for ALL that you see, exhibiting that caring enough to allow it to unfold as it must, then you will find that all that you see will change. It will morph. It will transition … perhaps slower than you would desire, but again, let it be. Let it proceed at the pace that it needs to proceed to bring as many along as the Divine Plan calls for.

Lao Tzu on Being in a State of Contentment

July 21, 2025July 20, 2025 by Rob Loveland, posted in Channeling, spiritual guidance, spiritual info

[Often when I get together with my teammates to channel, we find that we don’t have many questions or topics to discuss. It seems there’s a reason for that … and it’s a good thing! 😉 — Rob]

Rob and Teammates: Is it enough to just get together to enjoy each other’s company and wisdom, rather than having to have a specific topic to discuss?

Lao Tzu: Indeed. I would also suggest that the lack of a topic is simply an indicator that you are learning, all of you, to just be, to just take life as it comes to you, without any major issues, without any major concerns, or simply living your life and accepting the experiences as they come, for whatever they can offer you and you are happy to do so. As was said, just taking life as it is, no real issues.

This is a state of contentment. Is this not what you are all after from the beginning? Revel in this. Accept that this is what you came to do. And yes, you are raising your vibration with each and every breath where you have no expectations and you are just allowing life to unfold according to your own plan.

It is you beginning to understand at the physical level what it means to be divine in this physical form. Accept it, allow it, have fun with it. Once you are comfortable in this space, then it is time to explore whatever your heart desires.

I will echo to just trust that all that you are putting out in the world, to the universe, is indeed manifesting what you hope to create through that love, that joy. Whether you ever see that or not does not matter … not one iota! Trust that the love will do its work, just as you intended, just as you had infused whatever offering that you put out with that love will, in fact, achieve its end, achieve the end for the greater good, for the divine plan and your part in it.

And, I feel I would be remiss, or Rob would be disappointed in me, if I did not bring up the idea of humility in the midst of this. All of you here, with all of us as equals — no one above, no one below — all taking our place in the oneness of all. I will say again, is this not what you are after from the beginning? You are doing it. You have done it. Enjoy just being here with all of us, as us.

So with that, I will step back. Go with my blessings and my love.

Lao Tzu on Humility and Finding Peace

November 3, 2024November 4, 2024 by Rob Loveland, posted in Channeling, spiritual guidance, spiritual info

Rob: So I’m in my sacred landscape, and I’m going down to the water. And at the edge of the water is a tree with a big rock, a boulder, underneath it. Lao Tzu is there, sitting on the rock, waiting for me. So I’m taking a seat next to him in the shade of the tree.

So since I drew a card on humility, and because humility is one of the Blessings and Virtues, and in fact, I had chosen it as one of the Keys to Self, I probably would have said I know what I need to know about humility. But I acknowledge, also, there’s always more.

So do you have anything to share with me, something I don’t know, perhaps about myself and my own attitudes, my own beliefs, about humility?

Lao Tzu: Greetings, Rob. So nice of you to join me here [on] this pleasant day, enjoying the calm by the water’s edge. And the calm is important. It seems to be a theme — slow down, take time out to just enjoy the peace.

At the end of the day, that’s really what humans need to learn — how to go through this life, any life, in a state of peace and calm. It is fine to be excited about something new, learning something new, experiencing something new. That brings the joy.

But at the end of the day, the lasting contentment comes from the peace, leaving the turmoil behind, centering yourself and going within in order to find that place of calm, to find that place that really speaks to who you really are. For at the end of the day, nothing that happens out there — there in the physical world — can affect you unless you allow it.

And as soon as you accept that, firmly believe that, it stops affecting you; it stops disturbing your calm, your peace. It’s just something that’s happening. It’s all just happening for your entertainment and, yes, perhaps for you to learn something, to witness a scenario play out so that you may understand all sides, so that you can fully grasp the depth of whatever the situation is, whatever it is that you have to learn, that you have chosen to learn.

There is nothing you have to do in this life or any other. It is all based on the plan of what it is that you have set out to learn, set out to experience. So why would any of that disturb your peace? It only does if you allow it. But I am asking, why would you allow it?

Think of it as sitting in a classroom … as you’re sitting in the chair, waiting for the teacher to present their lecture, present the material, whatever form that is, do you feel anxious about that? Do you feel a lack of calm and peace while you’re sitting there absorbing what the teacher is offering? Most likely not. So why would you feel any different about your own experiences that you have chosen as a means to teach you? It’s no different.

The point is, to get to that state, one has to acknowledge at all times that you are divine, that you are a divine spirit who is simply choosing a set of experiences in order to learn or in order to just have fun as a source of entertainment. So none of this should be taken too seriously. The trick is, if I could call it a trick, is to keep in mind at all times [to] never forget who you are. If you are operating from that perspective, then all the rest of it, all of the turmoil in the world, just seems silly to allow that to disturb your own peace.

So the notion of humility is simply understanding, operating from the perspective, that God is your only source, for God is all that there is. You hear at times people refer to God as “All That Is,” and it is true … and you are part of that. You are part of the All, therefore you also are All That Is!

That’s not to be taken in any way as boastful. No, it is operating from a position of humility that you are nothing without the God Source within you. You would not be here without that. None of us would be.

And think of the majesty of ALL of what that means, the complexity involved, the magnificence involved, and yes, THOU ART THAT, that is living from a position of humility and respect for who you are.

I hope that has helped. Perhaps your teammate has some questions for us.