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FAITH, FEAR and FEELINGS

Posted: Mon, Feb 28, 2005 05:48:15 AM

well to tell the truth, i did not blog over the weekend because i did not feel like i had anything to offer myself or anyone else. the part of me that expresses my disease has found an old tape to run, namely that i am full of crap and that what i have to offer no one wants or needs. i am not used to be so pummeled by myself, ands it sounded so convincing. part of what is going on is that i do not want to be an addict anymore and this reservation was revealed as part of my writing on step one. the meditation reading addressed what is really going though, i am afraid to feel hopeless and desperate, so instead of feeling i come up with hundreds of ways to rationalize away and avoid feeling what i need to feel. i am afraid i do not have the courage to face the feelings that i am having and WILL have as a result of my current step work and that is understandable and even rational, but all that is a boat load of shit. I JUST LACK THE FAITH to feel and let those who love me see me suffering.
and that is something that too will pass. i am not going to use today, i am not going buy a new toy, i am not going to run away and isolate, but i am going to find the FAITH i need to survive this day 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 2

2) What men dislike is to be orphans, to have little virtue, to be
as carriages without naves; and yet these are the designations which
kings and princes use for themselves. So it is that some things are
increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being
increased.