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ฮฑ the variety of people i encounter in my day and the quality of my relations with them ฯ‰

Posted: Sun, Jul 15, 2007 08:04:21 AM

determines, to a great extent, the quality of my very life.
so the better i treat the people i encounter, the better my life will be. an interesting concept, and of course i am reading more into this than was said. that is my nature, and this morning that is what struck me most about this particular reading.
before going down that line, i will talk about what the main idea of this reading is, namely becoming willing to amend the relationships i have damaged and destroyed in the past. many of those relationships were far beyond repair when i came to recovery. i was the type that used people for as long as i could then ’X-d’ them out of my life. so the relationships that were still intact, no matter what their current condition became very important to me, when i first approached this step. i would lie about how important they were, because being dependent on others was hardly the persona i wanted to show, nevertheless, i was desperate to retain those relationships and was more than willing during my first course of the twelve steps.
so the eighth step has always been a very important step to me, and it will be interesting what shows up when i approach this step for the third time some time in the future. however, i am not on that step now, so of course i focus on a different message...
it has been my experience, that how i treat the people i encounter on a daily basis does effect my mood, my serenity and my outlook on life. if i find fault by judging their behavior, i find myself judging myself, and i am the harshest judge of me i know. if i disrespect them and treat them as less than myself, i find myself feeling less than everyone else, after all a few days in recovery should have weeded that behavior out my my garden. on the other hand, when i treat them as equals, and accept them for who they are, i find myself feeling equal, and i find a bit of self-acceptance. so for me, practicing these principles in all my affairs, create a better sense of self and i am in a better mood, after all don’t i know who i am? an addict in recovery learning how to live with my human condition. and for me, that is a good place to end this little missive and move into my day!

∞ 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 1

3) Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as
he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who
would administer it with the love which he bears to his own person
may be entrusted with it.