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Wed, Feb 20, 2008 10:50:37 AM
δ instead of living my life by default, i can learn how to make responsible choices and take risks. δ
posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 10:50:37 AM
a heightened awareness of myself and an increased willingness to accept personal responsibility gives me the freedom to change, to make choices, and to grow.
so i was up way early this morning and got started on a project that was only going to take a few minutes. HA! the project i got started now will be a whole morning long, and it has been one that i have been putting off for quite some time now. life is like that too! i think i know what i need to undertake on a daily basis, and i often find what i start is not going to take as long as i think it is or takes even longer. the irony of this ties back to the reading, if i choose to continue to let the world decide what i am going to do, how i am going to behave and live in a reactive mode, i will continue to be miserable. the choice to be a victim is mine on a daily basis, heck a minute by minute basis. i believe that i choose to accept responsibility for my actions and behaviors today. after all, it is yet another good day to recover!
so i was up way early this morning and got started on a project that was only going to take a few minutes. HA! the project i got started now will be a whole morning long, and it has been one that i have been putting off for quite some time now. life is like that too! i think i know what i need to undertake on a daily basis, and i often find what i start is not going to take as long as i think it is or takes even longer. the irony of this ties back to the reading, if i choose to continue to let the world decide what i am going to do, how i am going to behave and live in a reactive mode, i will continue to be miserable. the choice to be a victim is mine on a daily basis, heck a minute by minute basis. i believe that i choose to accept responsibility for my actions and behaviors today. after all, it is yet another good day to recover!
∞ DT ∞
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
2) Therefore (to guard against this), the sage keeps the left-hand
portion of the record of the engagement, and does not insist on the
(speedy) fulfilment of it by the other party. (So), he who has the
attributes (of the Tao) regards (only) the conditions of the engagement,
while he who has not those attributes regards only the conditions
favourable to himself.