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Sun, Jan 2, 2005 09:19:12 AM
∞ dealing with frustration ∞
posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 09:19:12 AM
i have been a mass of frustrations for the past 6 weeks and have been handling the feelings with less than stellar behaviors (a nice spin on fucked-up). i still do not have a clue what is going on inside, but i have sat down with my sponsor and am following his suggested course of action (which is new and different).
i could have used this reading about a month ago, the reminder to breathe and ask GOD for whatever it is i need to handle the situation would have made my life a whole lot smoother. of course if wishes were horses we all would ride. hopefully i will be remember this reading over the next rough patch i have and work through the little and not so little speed bumps of life a bit more sanely.
∞ DT ∞
i could have used this reading about a month ago, the reminder to breathe and ask GOD for whatever it is i need to handle the situation would have made my life a whole lot smoother. of course if wishes were horses we all would ride. hopefully i will be remember this reading over the next rough patch i have and work through the little and not so little speed bumps of life a bit more sanely.
∞ DT ∞
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
1) Who knows his manhood's strength,
Yet still his female feebleness maintains;
As to one channel flow the many drains,
All come to him, yea, all beneath the sky.
Thus he the constant excellence retains;
The simple child again, free from all stains.
Who knows how white attracts,
Yet always keeps himself within black's shade,
The pattern of humility displayed,
Displayed in view of all beneath the sky;
He in the unchanging excellence arrayed,
Endless return to man's first state has made.
Who knows how glory shines,
Yet loves disgrace, nor e'er for it is pale;
Behold his presence in a spacious vale,
To which men come from all beneath the sky.
The unchanging excellence completes its tale;
The simple infant man in him we hail.