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Sat, Mar 4, 2006 08:59:06 AM


∞ adding value and meaning to my life ∞
posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 08:59:06 AM

 

so life is a process and not a random series of events? not rally the way i looked at things when i came to recovery and certainly not the way i think things should be run apparently. my sponsor and i chatted about this very issue the other evening as he told me that what i wanted to do is wake-up one day and have all the change in my life done -- you know go to sleep with my life looking one way and wake-up the next day with everything changed just to my liking -- a series of events. hew went on to explain that i NEED to participate in the process of change and the reading this morning implies that, the change process is just part of the overall process of life. WAHHHHHHHHHH!
now i am done whining, i guess the time has come for me to move into a bit of solution. so here i sit, unemployed, finishing off my new office, thinking about the spiritual principles in my life rather than assembling the last piece of furniture. i really do believe that i can do the footwork to succeed at this process of life as well as all the changes i am going through. and i really do believe that i have prepared long enough to move forward. i really have been asking for something more and then waiting for it to drop into my lap. well now i have to work at the something more and i am a bit nervous about making that leap of FAITH. so what does this have to do with using the steps to unlock the process of life? everything, i am applying some of the principles i have learned through the course of my step work to my life today. i can succeed and i can thrive IF I ALLOW myself to do so. so off to the assembly floor and let us see if i can follow the "sinmple"6; instructions provided.

∞ DT ∞

 

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☯ 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) Heaven is long-enduring and earth continues long. The reason why
heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because
they do not live of, or for, themselves. This is how they are able
to continue and endure.