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Mon, Oct 10, 2005 05:32:46 AM
∞ actions = consequences ∞
posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 05:32:46 AM
in my mind the word consequences brings images of awful things happening and as a result, i live in fear some days of doing anything. of course, the action of inaction also brings its own consequences, so i cannot escape going that way either. it is not my experience that some immutable physical law applies, that every action brings and opposite and equal reaction, but it seems to me that an immutable spiritual law does apply -- every action i take has a result, good, bad or indifferent. and if I want positive results (prizes) I need to work to take positive actions. and although what appears to be a positive result may in the long run turn out to be a price i need to pay. conversely what appears to be a price may end-up being a prize, i just cannot tell, so i guess i have to take action and leave the results (consequences), up to my HIGHER POWER, where they belong anyhow! so with that in mind, it is time for me to take the action and do some work!
:) DT :)
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.
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
1) Who knows his manhood's strength,
Yet still his female feebleness maintains;
As to one channel flow the many drains,
All come to him, yea, all beneath the sky.
Thus he the constant excellence retains;
The simple child again, free from all stains.
Who knows how white attracts,
Yet always keeps himself within black's shade,
The pattern of humility displayed,
Displayed in view of all beneath the sky;
He in the unchanging excellence arrayed,
Endless return to man's first state has made.
Who knows how glory shines,
Yet loves disgrace, nor e'er for it is pale;
Behold his presence in a spacious vale,
To which men come from all beneath the sky.
The unchanging excellence completes its tale;
The simple infant man in him we hail.