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Posted: Sat, Dec 19, 2015 01:46:33 PM

way i talk. once again i am several hours away from what i heard this morning and of course what i thought i was going to blog about, may not end up what i actually write. i thought i had time earlier, but this application did not work properly, so i was frustrated and pissed-off. instead of whining, i just moved on to my next task. it also created a situation, where i have to clean up the way i handles errors outside of my control, which is actually a good thing. there are times when i can hardly wait to move my site from its current host, but i am cheap and lazy, so i think i will just keep what i have and grin and bear it.
ah the joys of being part of the life of recovery, and when i am doing my best to fit my life into recovery, well that means that i actually have to let go and allow the world to be what it will be. of course, that means a segue into how terrible i am doing at walking the talk. or as i am more apt to do these days, look at whether or not i can actually do better than i think i am doing. well there actually a few more things i need to do with my site today. well actually not as much as i thought after refreshing me local files, and i have verified it will cover the errors i may or may not see, which you guys will never see again.
where was i? oh yeah, beating my chest and and screaming how bad i am about saying one thing and doing another. the truth is, i am really not as bad as i would like to make myself out to be. yes, this goes to that false humility thing, that if i think i am have humility, i do not. what a fVcking great lie and manner in which to destroy who i am, at least in my own eyes. if i say i am doing okay, and someone thinks i am the biggest hypocrite in the world, because i did not walk my talk, then i get all butt-hurt and decide to never, ever say i act in a spiritual manner, ever again. yes extreme reactions have yet to be removed from the plethora of less than attractive spiritual practices i have active in my life. what do i mean when i say i walk my talk? well it could be a wonderful time for a rationalization, which i am quite good at as well. instead what i can say is that when i have the opportunity to choose, as i am not already locked into a reaction, i can make the conscious decision to live by my principles. in those other cases? well i have a TENTH STEP to fix those instances, which ends up walking my talk after all.
anyhow, if i go on, i will bore you guys and certainly bore myself. so the spiritual thing to do is to say just for today i am grateful when i get the chance to choose and perhaps if i am paying attention i will walk my talk, in the next moment.

∞ 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 1

1) The highest excellence is like (that of) water. The excellence
of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying,
without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike.
Hence (its way) is near to (that of) the Tao.