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โ†” releasing the old โ†”

Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 05:39:00 AM

this morning i am in a much better place. not writing my daily inventory for several days created a situation where i was out of touch with myself. what is really going on is that i am resistant to moving forward in my step work, i still want to live in self-will rather than finish my second step and move into the third.
well the reading this morning addressed that issue very well!
the point is that although self-will is not working for me and causing me a great deal of pain, it is familiar, kind of like those old stinky shoes that i have spent years breaking into my idiosyncratic feet. they look awful, they smell, and they are falling apart. nevertheless, i do not want to discard them. well the time has come for me to discard my will and move forward into the next phase of my recovery. i can choose to remain where i am and be miserable or i can take a small risk and do what is in front of me. my grace period has expired at the end of the second step, and i NEED to grow into what i will be.
∞ 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) (The infant's) bones are weak and its sinews soft, but yet its
grasp is firm. It knows not yet the union of male and female, and
yet its virile member may be excited;--showing the perfection of its
physical essence. All day long it will cry without its throat becoming
hoarse;--showing the harmony (in its constitution).