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δ surrendering to surrender μ

Posted: Thu, Jul 21, 2005 05:28:45 AM

once again i find myself in a place that requires me to find a way to surrender. although i have surrendered over and over again since getting clean, there always seems to be yet another thing to surrender. i really do not want to fall victim to ‘ old-timers disease, ’ i also have a problem with the belief that perhaps, in some matters, maybe i do know a thing or two.
well the truth is that belief is rooted in conceit and will kill me, since the part of me i lable my disease uses what it can to take me away from where i need to be.
so what do i need to surrender today that i feel i can handle????????
  • my life
  • my will
  • my shortcomings
  • and most of all the attitude that i can do this by myself
not a whole bunch but enough for today!
∞ 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

3) Who can take his own superabundance and therewith serve all under
heaven? Only he who is in possession of the Tao!