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Thu, Jun 2, 2005 05:39:05 AM
∞ process of change ∞
posted: Thu, Jun 2, 2005 05:39:05 AM
am i truly sick and tired of being tired and sick?? the easy answer is of course but the real question is am i ready to something about it? and there is the rub! i have been a creature of habit for so long that what i really want is to bitch about whatever is going on in my life, let someone else offer a suggestion and then dismiss it and go back to whatever it was i was doing. hardly a spiritual manner to handle my life, n‘est-ce pas?
well two nights ago i actually decided to do something about what i am feeling and started the step work assignment i had been given 4 weeks ago, and you know what, i have been starting to awaken to the possibility that growth does not have to be painful nor undesirable. i know that for me anyhow, that i need to be actually formally be working a step almost all the time or i get further and further away from where i want to be going. and where i want to be going is forward on my journey to become the man my Higher Power has always wanted me to be.
so once again the reading applies to what is currently going on in my life.
the sweet and delicious irony of recovery is once again revealed in a daily reading.
∞ DT ∞
well two nights ago i actually decided to do something about what i am feeling and started the step work assignment i had been given 4 weeks ago, and you know what, i have been starting to awaken to the possibility that growth does not have to be painful nor undesirable. i know that for me anyhow, that i need to be actually formally be working a step almost all the time or i get further and further away from where i want to be going. and where i want to be going is forward on my journey to become the man my Higher Power has always wanted me to be.
so once again the reading applies to what is currently going on in my life.
the sweet and delicious irony of recovery is once again revealed in a daily reading.
∞ DT ∞
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While the author is a member of a 12 Step recovery fellowship, these writings are not intended to endorse or express the published wisdom of any fellowship.
These writings are not meant to be socially or politically correct, and if you take issue with any opinions expressed, please seek the guidance of someone wiser than me.
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
2) If heaven were not thus pure, it soon would rend;
If earth were not thus sure, 'twould break and bend;
Without these powers, the spirits soon would fail;
If not so filled, the drought would parch each vale;
Without that life, creatures would pass away;
Princes and kings, without that moral sway,
However grand and high, would all decay.