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ฯ‰ recovery envy or gratitude? ฮฑ

Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2005 06:36:50 AM

quite a dilemma which to choose from? i know i am often guilty of envying someone else's recovery especially when it appears that they seem to be doing this recovery gig better than me. i often miss the signs of distress and pain, because i focus on the toys i see them accumulating, the places they seem to be jetting off to every week and the size of their apparent bank account.
truthfully, however, i really do not lack for any of the creature comforts in my life. i have a comfortable home, i have the love of someone special, i have friends who actually want me to be around, i have a family that cherishes their time with me and i have the means to provide the money to make my life quite comfortable. but more to the point, i have a path to follow that will sustain me if all else fails. i have the ways and means to become more than i ever dreamed, i have a safety net of friends and peers who will hold me up when i cannot stand on my own two feet and best of all i have a loving HIGHER POWER THAT KEEPS ME CLEAN AND PROVIDES FOR ALL MY NEEDS!
so what more do i need -- i mean really?
well a million or so dollars would come in handy or an all expense paid vacation to Italy for me and my honey would be nice, but you know, i really have all that i need and right here, right now, i can be grateful for that!
∞ 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) Though they had boats and carriages, they should have no occasion
to ride in them; though they had buff coats and sharp weapons, they
should have no occasion to don or use them.