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โŠ— when i admit my powerlessness, i stop trying to control and manage my; โŠ—

Posted: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 11:29:38 AM

my way to a better life -- i surrender. well i have had better starts to my day. not that anything real bad has happened, just the frustration of trying to get things to work on the system. so it goes. i am about to give up, surrender as it were and allow myself to move forward with some other stuff.
i think i am having one of the HP shots day, where no matter what i think is the next right thing it is not -- DANG IT! so what does surrendering mean to me today? well for one, stop beating my head up against the wall. if things will not work, they will not work and i can move on to something else. it also means that i need to STOP and take a moment to get my head in the right place, which is the her and now. i have a bunch of stuff that would be nice to do, a bunch of stuff that i HAVE to do, and all of this is going to get done, the HAVE to’s anyhow.
so it is off to gas up the automobile and get some stuff from the store than back at this pain in the BUTT.
BTW i am excited about convention this weekend.

∞ 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) In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there
were (their rulers). In the next age they loved them and praised them.
In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Thus
it was that when faith (in the Tao) was deficient (in the rulers)
a want of faith in them ensued (in the people).