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Posted: Sun, Jul 4, 2004 08:27:36 AM

i can use the tools of the program to resolve confrontations in my life??
i can walk away from a situation and come back and resolve it when i have a cooler head

how 'bout that!
just these two statements from this morning"s reading allow for an incredible freedom
i am not stuck in old behaviors of resolving coflicts with those people who are part of my life or who i happen to stumble across in the course of my daily affairs
of course, the trick for me is to remember that i have this choice, that these principles are available for me to use at any time
i am not destined to be arrogant SOB forever or even right now
i am grateful that the program provides me the means to resolve conflict without hurting anyone including myelf.
i do not have to be a doormat nor do i have to victimize those that do not see things the way i do.
living the program today reduces the pain, stress and chaos that i cause and accepting (or at least tolerating) the chaos caused be others in the HERE AND NOW and not swallowing or taking on their stuff
What a concept!
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

3) Thus it is that dignity finds its (firm) root in its (previous)
meanness, and what is lofty finds its stability in the lowness (from
which it rises). Hence princes and kings call themselves 'Orphans,'
'Men of small virtue,' and as 'Carriages without a nave.' Is not this
an acknowledgment that in their considering themselves mean they see
the foundation of their dignity? So it is that in the enumeration
of the different parts of a carriage we do not come on what makes
it answer the ends of a carriage. They do not wish to show themselves
elegant-looking as jade, but (prefer) to be coarse-looking as an (ordinary)
stone.