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โˆž center of the universe? โˆž

Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 05:40:42 AM

so, the world does not revolve around me? BUMMER! i know i believed that when i first came to recovery and probably for quite a while in early recovery, after all were you all not here to help me get better? and did i not NEED every bit of love and attention you gave me? OF COURSE, but you gave that to me not because i was entitled to it, but because you had learned how to live by a spiritual principle or two.
today i do understand that to nurture my spirit i need to give of myself to not only those i share time with but also to the world around me. learning what my place was in this world and how to live there was a difficult but rather simple task, all i had to was give up all my preconceived notions of who and what i was, and what i was entitled to and learn to live.
so over the course of time, i now have the ability to give back to this world and those around me and have a better idea my place in the world.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS ALL
∞ 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) The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps;
the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed;
the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful closer needs no
bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible;
the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what
he has bound will be impossible. In the same way the sage is always
skilful at saving men, and so he does not cast away any man; he is
always skilful at saving things, and so he does not cast away anything.
This is called 'Hiding the light of his procedure.'