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โˆž my balancing act โˆž

Posted: Wed, May 11, 2005 05:42:25 AM

well another principle that i seem to lack today. from outside appearances it looks like i have this under control, but inside i still feel that the demands on my time are way skewed towards everyone else. this whole balancing act is sometimes way beyond me, i want to be available for my employer and my clients. i want to be able to spend time with my sponsees. i want to be present for my family and significant other. i have to find time to do service and the place i steal time from is from myself.
all this adds up to a life where i come last and end up feeling resentful if anyone needs one more second of my time than i have already allotted.
ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
so once more i will return to the scales and start moving the grains of time around to see where i can find the balance my life so sorely needs!
∞ 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

The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on
the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends.
Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness,
that their use depends. The door and windows are cut out (from the
walls) to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space (within),
that its use depends. Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves
for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.