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Wed, Jan 3, 2018 09:30:32 AM
🤜 free to live 🤛
posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2018 09:30:32 AM
with others on an equal footing, what a notion. i no longer need to compare my financial or business success with others to be comfortable in my own skin. the truth is, i often forget that success, mine anyhow, needs to be measured on a different scale these days. comparing and contrasting how “well” i am doing in the physical world, really has no correlation in how well i am doing in my recovery journey. it is nice to have “stuff” and i do. it is nice to have relationships and many other gifts of recovery, BUT what i really want and think i need, is the FREEDOM, to just be myself, all the time.
as i sat this morning, i wondered about how well i am doing on an emotional and spiritual level. the answer i “got” was that i am doing better than i think i am. my need to be the most “recovered” person in the room and to have all the answers, has been diminished, as of late. i can give and receive love. i can stand up for myself, assertively and can do the next right thing, most of the time. i may lack serenity this morning, because a program is destroying my computer and i cannot get it removed, but this too shall pass. i am okay with letting go and not allowing the mechanical world to interfere with my recovery, just for today
as i sat this morning, i wondered about how well i am doing on an emotional and spiritual level. the answer i “got” was that i am doing better than i think i am. my need to be the most “recovered” person in the room and to have all the answers, has been diminished, as of late. i can give and receive love. i can stand up for myself, assertively and can do the next right thing, most of the time. i may lack serenity this morning, because a program is destroying my computer and i cannot get it removed, but this too shall pass. i am okay with letting go and not allowing the mechanical world to interfere with my recovery, just for today
∞ DT ∞
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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.
These writings are not meant to be socially or politically correct, and if you take issue with any opinions expressed, please seek the guidance of someone wiser than me.
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
3) Always without desire we must be found,
If its deep mystery we would sound;
But if desire always within us be,
Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.