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โˆž there is something about the physical action of writing โˆž

Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 11:33:17 AM

that helps to fix the principles of recovery in my mind and heart.
and perhaps that is why i am so consistent in writing this little ditty on a daily basis. today would have been a day to skip and i have had better starts to my day. yes i am clean and yes i can meet my responsibilities today but the way the morning has gone i want to go back to bed and hide from the world. my main computer is broke because i was impatient with a process and perhaps it will work by the time i get done writing this. or maybe i will be formatting and starting over, either way i have to accept that things are how they are and let go of the outcomes.
so what else do i need to write about, bunches of stuff i am sure, like how to help my sponsee in jail accept that he is where he is because he chose to turn his back on a spiritual principle or three. or how i am going to get all the work done i need to before leaving for service on friday, especially since i have to get my main box up and running. that to will be what it will be.
so off to face the consequences of my behaviors and see what i can get accomplished today.

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

2) Therefore the sentence-makers have thus expressed themselves:--

'The Tao, when brightest seen, seems light to lack;
Who progress in it makes, seems drawing back;
Its even way is like a rugged track.
Its highest virtue from the vale doth rise;
Its greatest beauty seems to offend the eyes;
And he has most whose lot the least supplies.
Its firmest virtue seems but poor and low;
Its solid truth seems change to undergo;
Its largest square doth yet no corner show
A vessel great, it is the slowest made;
Loud is its sound, but never word it said;
A semblance great, the shadow of a shade.'