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manipulating my way into a manageable life

Posted: Sat, Oct 23, 2004 01:44:13 PM

if only i could!
what a world, just a little lie here and a quick use of someone there and my life would be exactly as i desire.
and then i woke-up and got clean!
although i believed i had quite a bit of power when i got here, that little myth got quickly dispelled as i dealt with the damage of my unmanageable life. the biggest lie i told was to myself that somehow, if i could satisfy certain conditions i could not only return to my old life and it would be somehow more than it ever was.
what i got instead was a life far beyond my wildest dreams that is no mopre manageable than before, except today i can accept that i am not in charge and SURRENDER my life to my HIGHER POWER and let it do the work that i so clearly lack the skill set for -- namely managing and caring for my life --..
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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

1) There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and
yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing
that can take precedence of it;--for there is nothing (so effectual)
for which it can be changed.