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ฮด i do understand suffering and, in recovery, i can do our best to alleviate it. ฮด

Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2008 09:42:31 AM

when my individual contribution is combined with others, i become an essential part of a grand design. i am connected at last. so for a Saturday morning i am far from home and have been up for way to long already. the drive to where i am presents a parallel to the reading. on the way down, i finally came to terms with why i was so involved in chaos and controversy over the past week. what it comes down to, is that i share a passion and a vision but not necessarily the means for accomplishing it. within in me i find an awakening to being true and whole, and to not be who i am, and let those with whom i serve know who i am, i am being dishonest and at best disingenuous. the conflict withing, coming from my fear of being wrong and my need to be right, spilled out of my human shell, and as a reult chaos swirled around me. so this morning way down south, i find a new direction for this inner conflict, be true to myself, express my doubt and reservations out loud and let the process work. a paradigm shift for sure for me, keeping a vision in mind but focusing on the process of achieving it and allowing others that same creative freedom. i do make a difference, and my legacy is that in some small, perhaps insignificant way i can assist my vision in be realized.
so the time to go take care of responsibility has come and now i must leave. see you all later!

∞ 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

4) Why was it that the ancients prized this Tao so much? Was it not
because it could be got by seeking for it, and the guilty could escape
(from the stain of their guilt) by it? This is the reason why all
under heaven consider it the most valuable thing.