Here is an excerpt from Dr Tae Yun Kim's book, The Silent Master:

"CHAPTER 1

 FREEDOM!

THE GOAL OF SELF-DISCOVERY

 Silent Master Image I

You Are One of a Kind

Your Silent Master is your Real Self, 

your original Self. 

It expresses Itself through your thinking, 

through true Ideas and Thoughts in your mind. 

It is your eternal Selfhood that exists apart from your brain 

(which is a sensory processor only) 

and the personality traits imposed 

on you from your environment.

 FREEDOM IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT

You were born to be free! Just as nature is full of wildlife that is born in freedom, you, too, are meant to live free. You are a part of nature, too. And there is no greater freedom than to be the master of your own destiny. There is no greater happiness than to be who you are in truth not a copy or an imitation of someone else, but rather your own original self.

 When you know who you are, you experience yourself as unique, one of a kind. You have a special place and a special purpose in being here. No one can take your place in life or in the universe. When you know who you really are, you become free because you realize you can be in charge of your life. You learn to use the natural power within you to realize your true desires, to set meaningful goals for yourself and to fulfill them successfully."

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Dr Tae Yun Kim's Words Inspire Me

 Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim is a martial artist, an author, a speaker and much more.  Here is an excerpt from her book,   The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within:

 "My own life certainly has not been free of obstacles. To reach my goal of becoming a Grandmaster, I had to overcome the hardships of war and many centuries of limiting prejudice towards women living in the Orient.

 Today, and every day, I still have many problems to overcome in continuing my work to train others in the art of Jung SuWon. One purpose of this book is to share with you the action steps that have helped me win my goals. I have never regarded defeat as an acceptable alternative. If defeat has any purpose, it is only to act as a guidepost, as feedback, while you keep moving toward your goal.

 If you have tried before and failed try again! In this book I will be asking you to try it my way. I can only tell you that my principles have worked for me and worked for my students. If you are willing to take action, they will work for you too. I have included many action steps in this book to help you create your own path. Keep a pencil handy as you read, and give some of these exercises a chance. You can always go back to your way.

 Remember that you are not alone. Like the single blade of grass, you are one with the Life Force of the universe, and you have the power and ability to fulfill your dreams. My greatest wish is to help you discover the true Love within you, and show you how to use It in creating a life of fulfillment, peace, and joy."

Dr Tae Yun Kim's Words Inspire Me

 Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim is a martial artist, an author, a speaker and much more.  Here is an excerpt from her book,   The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within:

"In Self Discovery, work is a joyful process! Yes, it involves effort, and it involves changing yourself. It may involve doing "scary" things for the first time, and it involves some sacrifice. But the word sacrifice comes from a root that means "to make holy." Sacrifice is not real loss. In discovering your true self, you will never lose anything you need, and you will gain only what makes you more pure and more free!

Your work is uniquely yours. No one can do your work or your living for you no one can know your truth.  Even the blade of grass must move the earth by itself.  But the single little blade does move the earth!  The truth is, all your struggles, all your obstacles, all your mistakes are destined to end in victory, not defeat.  The powerful presence within you - your Silent Master - is the force of Love.  And this Love desires above all to bring you to your highest potential.  Love brings you every situation, every obstacle, and every lesson that you need to create your greatest growth."

Dr Tae Yun Kim's Writings Inspire Me

Dr Tae Yun Kim shares her personal challenges and experiences in her book, The Silent Master. Her writings have been very inspiring and helpful in my life. 

"In my first book, Seven Steps to Inner Power, I present a foundation of principles that lead to the discovery of your Silent Master. But once you know about the Silent Master within, when you know who you are and what your potential is, there is one more vital step to take. Action! Inner knowledge brings freedom only when you put it into action. In this second book, I emphasize how to create your own path of Self Discovery so that your knowledge brings you freedom and love and joy.Something else comes with this territory: Work! Self Discovery, taking action, staying on your path until your reach your goal, takes work. There's no way around it. Work takes effort! I can tell you honestly I haven't yet met anyone seeking true Self Discovery who didn't have obstacles to overcome. But obstacles and mistakes are your friends and teachers. They come to you in exactly the strength you need to build equal strength for overcoming them.

I had to learn this lesson of the butterfly the hard way when I was a young girl studying with my Master in Korea. For many weeks I had been watching a cocoon, waiting for the butterfly to emerge. It was hard to believe that there was any kind of life in there, and I even wondered if maybe the cocoon was dead. My master assured me much was happening that I couldn't see. "Learn to be patient...watch," he said.

One day I thought I saw the tiniest of movements. Putting my ear up to the cocoon, I was startled and thrilled to hear the small scratching sounds of the butterfly within. After so much waiting, it was happening! Finally I was going to see a butterfly emerge. But it seemed to be taking forever. Although I waited for many hours, it still didn't seem able to break out of its cocoon. I decided that it must be having trouble and that I'd better help it. Very carefully I peeled away the outer layer of the cocoon to set the butterfly free. The butterfly did step out, but, it couldn't fly! It was just able to walk and flutter. When I called to my master for help, he saw at once what I had done without me telling him. I had interfered with the butterfly's process. The effort - the work - to break out of the cocoon was a necessary part of the butterfly's transformation. In my ignorance, I took away the work necessary to prepare for a life of flying."

Dr. Tae Yun Kim’s Quotes Inspire Me

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Here is an excerpt from Dr. Tae Yun Kim‘s book, The Silent Master:

“INTRODUCTION

As part of my Jung SuWon teaching, I hold Self Discovery Weekends where people explore and express themselves through many different energizing activities. The purpose of these weekends is to give people an opportunity to open up, to love themselves in a more expansive way, and most importantly, to discover more of their true Self. Most of each weekend is spent outdoors in beautiful, remote areas of nature.

I remember that during of these one weekends, while everyone was seated in a circle after completing some breathing exercises, a large butterfly flew into the circle and alighted on my arm.

This charming and fascinating visitor seemed to have a mission. I invited him to step on my hand, and he did so without making any gesture to leave. He stretched his beautiful wings and waved them gently at everyone who came close to look. Even when I stood up and moved around, he still didn’t fly away.

Like the butterfly, we had a mission as well. We were gathered together on this day for the purpose of true Self Discovery. It seemed as though this little visitor came to say, “Look at me if you want to know about self discovery.” Perhaps his mission was to remind us of the powerful symbol nature gives us when a lowly drab caterpillar transforms itself into a multicolored winged being. No longer bound to crawl upon the earth, an altogether different creature flies to the air in freedom!

But imagine if some terrible spell were to make the caterpillar forget his destiny, or forget who he really is. Imagine that the caterpillar never took steps to make the transformation possible. Imagine that he never ate the proper leaves, nor spun the cocoon. Perhaps he spent the rest of his life simply crawling around and avoiding his enemies finally dying of starvation or old age. What a loss this would be! We would only hope that something, somewhere, sometime would make the caterpillar remember his true identity and fulfill his true destiny.

In the same way, you have the potential to transform a life that is drab, unhappy, limited, or without fulfillment into one that brings the freedom of a butterfly! I call this Self Discovery. But Self Discovery is really self rediscovery. You already possess a powerful, pure, and radiant consciousness, which I call the Silent Master. The rediscovery of this aspect of yourself can bring you the freedom that makes life worth living, not avoiding, not hiding from, not faking.”