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Wed, May 23, 2007 06:37:36 AM


∞ i am not just seeking freedom from remorse ∞
posted: Wed, May 23, 2007 06:37:36 AM

 

i am seeking freedom from my defects.
well i thought i would write about how i have been acting-out the past couple of days and how i need to make amends, but i have decided that doing so would probably cause more harm, contrary to the nature of the amends process. and trust me there are more than a few huge ones that i am working on and thinking about today.
so what does that leave me to write about? well this step is officially kicking my butt, i really hate the process of becoming entirely ready, with all its implications, i would rather just skip past this step and humbly ask to have them removed. but i would hardly be ready to become willing to make amends to all those i have harmed, so onward i plod towards the conclusion of this process and hopefully i will learn a few things over the next few hours to minimize the damage i am doing.
yes the reading was about the ninth step, and how i need to check in with my sponsor before trying to make amends, just to verify that i am not doing any more harm.
so since what is on my mind is something i choose to keep off the internet, suffice it to say that i am okay today and am working towards becoming the person i was always meant to be.

∞ DT ∞

 

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☯ 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) There is always One who presides over the infliction death. He
who would inflict death in the room of him who so presides over it
may be described as hewing wood instead of a great carpenter. Seldom
is it that he who undertakes the hewing, instead of the great carpenter,
does not cut his own hands!