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ฮฑ i am sure to find that i have literally hundreds of things โ€ฆ

Posted: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 09:55:03 AM

...in my life that inspires my gratitude. an awakening of the spirit is the most valuable gift an addict can receive. okay, this last twelve hours has been to say the least a trying period in my recent adventure called life. i could inventory everything that has gone sour over this period, but dwelling on that aspect of my life is hardly the direction that i need to go this morning. so taking my cue from my daily horoscope as well as the JFT reading this morning, i am changing the manner that i am reacting to the little speed bumps that have been part and parcel of my life in this recent period.
a gratitude list? hmmmm. if i wanted to say bah humbug i don’t need no stinkin’ gratitude list, and move on, i am sure that i would probably not use. however, that is not a risk i choose to take today, so her goes …
    i am grateful for:
  • having the means to support myself
  • having a place to live that is protected from the elements
  • having the opportunity to work out on a daily basis
  • having a way of earning money that i enjoy and provides me the opportunity to exercise my mind
  • having the desire to improve my health by fixing problems that i have settled for in the past
  • the choice to recover
  • freedom from active addiction
  • friends, loved ones and family
  • a relationship with a POWER THAT KEEPS ME CLEAN
  • and the ability to get past what seem like insurmountable obstacles today
well maybe not hundreds , but enough to change my current outlook. things are better now, not that the problems of the past day have disappeared, no i still have to face those challenges , but at least i can face them with attitude far superior to the one i had before i started this little exercise. so off to the showers and then back at it, to see what i can get done today!

∞ 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

1) The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps;
the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed;
the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful closer needs no
bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible;
the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what
he has bound will be impossible. In the same way the sage is always
skilful at saving men, and so he does not cast away any man; he is
always skilful at saving things, and so he does not cast away anything.
This is called 'Hiding the light of his procedure.'