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Thu, Dec 23, 2004 05:37:36 AM


∞ NEW ideas ∞
posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 05:37:36 AM

 

i have been having a dialogue with someone recently who is just like me in any respects: inflexible, close-minded to feedback and unwilling to change. the only difference between us is that i have a sponsor to explain those principles that somehow i fail to grasp. this dialogue has made me angry and made contemplate some old behaviors, such as name-calling and getting more than even. however in a moment of clarity i have come to realize what exactly is going on, i am seeing a mirror of myself and so not like what i see, hence the REACTION. the new idea i have this morning, is that i need to follow this path, address the issues i raised and look to my own motives. i do not want to be unapproachable and close-minded anymore. i know that i cannot remove these things from myself, but i can surrender them to GOD and let them be removed in the course of time. all of this has been revealed to me before and i chose to forget that i can be relieved of my pain and suffering if i only let go.
although i have strayed way off-topic this morning, i do know that now is the time to let go and let GOD do the work on me that is required today. this is part of the whole packet of new ideas that make up this new way of living today.
∞ DT ∞

 

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☯ 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

2) It is simply by being pained at (the thought of) having this disease
that we are preserved from it. The sage has not the disease. He knows
the pain that would be inseparable from it, and therefore he does
not have it.