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โ†” responsible friendship โ†”

Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 09:52:15 AM

well i knew i was responsible for my recovery. and i knew that i responsible for my behavior. i now have to be responsible for how i interact with others, including my friends? boy what will they come up with next -- something like aligning my will with GOD‘s -- well that is an entirely different matter that will come up again soon enough.
actually taking responsibility for my actions and cleaning-up the messes i make, through the amends process is probably a step further along the alignment process. the worse part of this whole thing is; that as i get more days under my belt, as i work more steps, as i grow spiritually i actually have less and less freedom to act selfishly and more and more responsibility to practice a spiritual principle or three in my daily life. my excuses diminish and i am left standing bare-assed in front of GOD and everyone, when i behave in a manner that requires an amend of any sort.
so not only do i want to be a responsible friend, who makes amends simply and directly as needed, i try and take responsibility one step further, choose my behaviors and actions in such a manner that i do not have to go and clean-up any of my little shit piles. and that truly is the path towards aligning my will with GOD‘s
∞ 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

He who in (Tao's) wars has skill
Assumes no martial port;
He who fights with most good will
To rage makes no resort.
He who vanquishes yet still
Keeps from his foes apart;
He whose hests men most fulfil
Yet humbly plies his art.

Thus we say, 'He ne'er contends,
And therein is his might.'
Thus we say, 'Men's wills he bends,
That they with him unite.'
Thus we say, 'Like Heaven's his ends,
No sage of old more bright.'