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ยซ i continue to take personal inventory and when i am wrong promptly admit it ยป

Posted: Tue, Feb 22, 2011 10:00:23 AM

or at least do my best. the catch here is promptly, what exactly does that mean? if i do catch my wrong until hours, days even weeks after the fact, how can that possibly be prompt? the loophole, for me, is that when i stumble across something way after the event, i have a tendency to put it off, after all, the object of my wrongs has probably already forgotten about it. prompt, according to this loophole means in proximity to the event. what i think prompt means in reality, is proximity to the discovery of the wrong and then it is the next opportunity i get to own my mistakes. that is the second loophole for me, the whole opportunity bit. i can say that living in FAITH, that the POWER that fuels my recovery will present the perfect opportunity and wait for it to arise in a natural manner. once again, going against the intent of what i think STEP 10 is all about. it is true, most of the time the wrongs i NEED to admit will occur with those interact with on a daily basis, so those natural opportunities will come up all the time. it is those wrongs i commit to those i see occasionally, or even will never see again that is the tricky part. i do not live in the 19th century, so i do have the means to make those opportunities occur. a phone call, e-mail or text message may suffice to admit where i was wrong to those i know. the random acts of wrongness? well the TENTH STEP gives me the means to correct my behavior and live in a manner of living where they occur much else.
anyhow, i do have a bunch of work to get done this morning, regardless of how much i have already accomplished. so i will end this with the thought that i am grateful i have the means to discover where i stray from the straight and narrow, the most importantly the means to correct those transgressions, in as close to real-time as possible. the loopholes? just further evidence that i am far from cured and that i MUST keep doing what i have been taught to do, it is after, all a great day to be clean.

∞ 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

2) The superior man ordinarily considers the left hand the most honourable
place, but in time of war the right hand. Those sharp weapons are
instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior
man;--he uses them only on the compulsion of necessity. Calm and repose
are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable.
To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of
men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will
in the kingdom.