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ΞΌ by working the steps, i can become a person i am proud to be. ΞΌ

Posted: Sun, Oct 26, 2008 05:12:44 PM

i can freely tell the truth about myself, for i have nothing to hide. or do i? well it has been several hours since i read this reading, and it is way late in the day to be writing on this. i just got back from one of the best conventions i have personally attended, and although the speakers and workshops were probably not anything out of the ordinary, i felt something more than i have felt in at least a few conventions. i do not know what tripped the fantastic switch inside of me, perhaps it was step work with sponsees, or perhaps it was that the many people i had not seen for for a year, or perhaps it was because i finally defined and spoke my passion to people who were actually listening to me. whatever it was, i am running with the feeling that i feel good and surrendering the why and how to that POWER that is the source of my recovery.
but anyhow…
hellip; i do know that i have finished taking out the garbage from my ninth step and that i have forgiven myself for the harm i have done, and i can face the fellowship, my peers and my friends with a clear mind, being who i am, without falling back into the same old crap, at least for today.
well, i have more work to accomplish before running off to a meeting, so back to the salt mines!

∞ 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) In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there
were (their rulers). In the next age they loved them and praised them.
In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Thus
it was that when faith (in the Tao) was deficient (in the rulers)
a want of faith in them ensued (in the people).