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Thu, Oct 16, 2008 10:36:50 AM
μ learning to pray is simple. i ask for **knowledge of the will of a HIGHER POWER for me and the power to carry that out** μ
posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 10:36:50 AM
by doing that, i find the direction i lacked and the strength i need. so as i sit here far from my normal path, i am struck by the simplicity of what i heard this morning. although i was incapable of settling in, and making quiet time this morning, i nevertheless feel a connection. a stronger connection than i have had in the past, or perhaps it is just that i am becoming more aware of what is really going on, inside of me. i know that my current garbage dump is done. i also know that i am in the process of moving forward into a place i have yet to see. and i am also running out of time before i need to leave and get to my next appointment.
so what?! well, for one, all of this knowledge is a bit overwhelming this morning, and being the creature of habit that i am, being this far out of my rut is more than a bit uncomfortable. that means that i need to be careful to be present for what my concept of a HIGHER POWER has in store for me today. i also need to be present for what is going on around me, i have a feeling that i may miss something if i travel through this day in my normal indifference to the world around me. so off to the races and into the cool bright world that is my reality this morning. life is good and i am ready to participate in it today.
so what?! well, for one, all of this knowledge is a bit overwhelming this morning, and being the creature of habit that i am, being this far out of my rut is more than a bit uncomfortable. that means that i need to be careful to be present for what my concept of a HIGHER POWER has in store for me today. i also need to be present for what is going on around me, i have a feeling that i may miss something if i travel through this day in my normal indifference to the world around me. so off to the races and into the cool bright world that is my reality this morning. life is good and i am ready to participate in it today.
∞ DT ∞
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
2) Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found
in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign
to him, and yet that person is preserved. Is it not because he has
no personal and private ends, that therefore such ends are realised?