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Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 08:48:23 AM

take two!
well i have not been the most apt at writing this as i sit here at work getting the problems roll through my headphones. so instead of doing the whole tap dance i will say this: addiction is a part of me. i do not refer to it as an third person or disease anymore. for me, addiction is just another filter through how i see the world, with that caveat in mind i can start down the same path, that my disease is talking to me and in my own voice.
addiction sucks. it takes what may only be a small affront and blows it up into a major injury. slow and discourteous drivers, they are hindering my progress, and the litany of evil could go on and on.
what i want to end up with, is that the only thing keeping me from becoming the modern version of Shiva, world destroyer, is a program of active recovery. the steps and the spiritual principles are the foil to addiction and for that i am grateful. anyhow the time has come to shower off and head on down to work. it has been once again one of those mornings, but i am grateful it is not my problem.

∞ 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) The people make light of dying because of the greatness of their
labours in seeking for the means of living. It is this which makes
them think light of dying. Thus it is that to leave the subject of
living altogether out of view is better than to set a high value on
it.