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โˆž unity is not uniformity. i often find that while myself and others strive โ€ฆ

Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2009 10:00:47 AM

...to fulfill the same purpose, our means and methods may be radically different. so is this about carrying the messages, or working a program? either way i have an opinion and could go on for quite some time about the topic. what i feel this morning is more in the service vein, and my actions over the past few months. have i been source of disunity? perhaps, i certainly have shaken the cobwebs off some of the members i have the privilege to serve with. i have introduced some ideas, that while not adopted now, will probably come back to be revisited in another form. and a member with whom i serve, has not a clue where my real passion lies, not that i have duplicitous in my behavior, it is more that member chooses not to listen. so on the surface, it may be said, that i have not been a unifying force, but i believe that in the long run, the little apple carts i have upset, and the eyes i have opened will make the service body stronger and more unified. this is hardly my swan song, and as to the nature of my service (and i am not soliciting advice here) in the next service cycle will not be determined by me. although i lack specific knowledge of the will of a HIGHER POWER in this respect, i know what, as my friend Derek likes to say, has been put on my heart. the next couple of months will be crucial to see where i end up going and as i progress through the days towards the expiration of my current terms, i will keep in mind, that all any of the members i serve with wants, is to carry the message to the still suffering addict, politics aside, so what happens to me, will be revealed and i will learn to accept it.
so off to the showers and into the real world to meet my responsibilities.

∞ 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

1) Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly
carry it into practice. Scholars of the middle class, when they have
heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it. Scholars of
the lowest class, when they have heard about it, laugh greatly at
it. If it were not (thus) laughed at, it would not be fit to be the
Tao.