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โˆž my **quiet time** need not be lengthy to be effective, provided it is consistent โˆž

Posted: Thu, Jul 3, 2008 09:25:53 AM

twenty minutes taken regularly each day, however, renews and reinforces an already lively contact with my Higher Power. i understand the suggestion of twenty minutes and perhaps if i add up all the time is spend during the couple of times each day i stop and take the quiet time it adds up to twenty minutes. however, i do believe that the reading was speaking to length of time, but rather the maintenance of a routine. it is something i try and get the men i sponsor to engage in, and something that i have found helpful it keeping my recovery going -- a recovery routine that includes prayer and meditation. so back to the task at hand, writing about how my recovery routine helps me to stay clean. i have no doubts that such activity is important, at least to this addict. i know i had routines in active addiction, i also know that i am a creature of habit who needs to have routines in my life. so it feels quite natural, that to recover i need to replace my routines of active addiction with routines that promote my active recovery. so spending a few minutes at the beginning and end of my day asking for help and being grateful for the help i received is a good thing fopr me. spending some time in the morning listening rather than asking is also a good way for me, to get my day rolling. but anyhow i have things to do and people to see, so it is off to the rat race to see what i can get done, this day. after all, it is a good day to be in recovery.

∞ 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

2) We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications
of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves
into agreement with the obscurity of others. How pure and still the
Tao is, as if it would ever so continue!