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Thu, Jun 9, 2005 05:12:35 AM
↔ dreams ↔
posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 05:12:35 AM
the problem with some dreams is that i find when they come true, i lack the imagination to move on. i realized one dream a year ago when i finally got a college degree after giving that dream away to my active disease. now i am stuck trying to go beyond that. i know that the nature of my insanity is that i block myself from realizing my hopes and dreams, including using my native imagination to go beyond my mundane day-to-day existence and dare to dream once more.
without a doubt, my life today is so much better than it was when i started this journey, that i almost feel afraid to dream that it can get any better. and if it is fear that is blocking me from looking beyond, then i need to learn to replace those fears with the faith that there can still be more. replace my self-will with my own true will, to allow myself to see possibilities beyond what i can see now.
so here i am at the end of a second step, looking once more to turn over my will and my life into the care of a POWER GREATER THAN ME, and let the chains of my current insanity break and disappear.
∞ DT ∞
without a doubt, my life today is so much better than it was when i started this journey, that i almost feel afraid to dream that it can get any better. and if it is fear that is blocking me from looking beyond, then i need to learn to replace those fears with the faith that there can still be more. replace my self-will with my own true will, to allow myself to see possibilities beyond what i can see now.
so here i am at the end of a second step, looking once more to turn over my will and my life into the care of a POWER GREATER THAN ME, and let the chains of my current insanity break and disappear.
∞ 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
3) Thus it is that dignity finds its (firm) root in its (previous)
meanness, and what is lofty finds its stability in the lowness (from
which it rises). Hence princes and kings call themselves 'Orphans,'
'Men of small virtue,' and as 'Carriages without a nave.' Is not this
an acknowledgment that in their considering themselves mean they see
the foundation of their dignity? So it is that in the enumeration
of the different parts of a carriage we do not come on what makes
it answer the ends of a carriage. They do not wish to show themselves
elegant-looking as jade, but (prefer) to be coarse-looking as an (ordinary)
stone.