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Sun, Nov 16, 2008 02:26:05 PM
↔ i may still feel isolated, focusing on the differences rather than the similarities ↔
posted: Sun, Nov 16, 2008 02:26:05 PM
the overwhelming feelings that often arise in recovery -- feelings of fear, anger, and mistrust -- can also keep me isolated. so here i sit in a service committee, waiting for it to get done. but it goes on and on, talking about the same old stuff. oh well, i do get the opportunity to serve the fellowship. but what does it really have to do with the topic of my feeling different? well, for one, i feel like i am sometimes miles away from the members in the room. so a quick note while my tenuous internet connection lasts. so off tot he races and time to pay attention to what is going on.
∞ 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
1) Who knows his manhood's strength,
Yet still his female feebleness maintains;
As to one channel flow the many drains,
All come to him, yea, all beneath the sky.
Thus he the constant excellence retains;
The simple child again, free from all stains.
Who knows how white attracts,
Yet always keeps himself within black's shade,
The pattern of humility displayed,
Displayed in view of all beneath the sky;
He in the unchanging excellence arrayed,
Endless return to man's first state has made.
Who knows how glory shines,
Yet loves disgrace, nor e'er for it is pale;
Behold his presence in a spacious vale,
To which men come from all beneath the sky.
The unchanging excellence completes its tale;
The simple infant man in him we hail.