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grateful for my life? just as it is today?

Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 06:33:33 AM

this has always been a problem for me, no matter how good i feel, no matter how many gifts i have received, no matter how well i appear to be doing, i always seem to want more. i know i suffer from a disease that demands that i get more and more. i can never be satisfied with what i have. this morning's reading reminds me that for me to be happy, joyous and free all i need to do is look at what i have and be grateful.
a concept that is simple and easy to implement on a moment by moment basis. nothing in this says i have to do it tomorrow or a year from now or even an hour from now, just right here and right now
so for me i guess i need to start NOW and let the next moments take care of themselves
-- 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 2

3) He who possesses the mother of the state may continue long. His
case is like that (of the plant) of which we say that its roots are
deep and its flower stalks firm:--this is the way to secure that its
enduring life shall long be seen