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Tue, Oct 27, 2020 11:31:48 AM


🛌 a bad dream 🚿
posted: Tue, Oct 27, 2020 11:31:48 AM

 

one of my recurring nightmares, is that this life that i have been given is all a dream and i am wasting away in a persistent vegetative state inside some rehab facility. exactly how could i tell what is real or what is not, regardless of what Descartes may have said? which certainly changes the notion of the reading to what may be. my answer to the question of what is real and what is not, is that since i cannot discern whether or not i am living or just dreaming, i might as well go with i am living my dream and let the notion of this life being a dream, fade to black.
coming back to the here and now, i certainly have not been having one of the most stellar weeks at work, in fact the past twelve days has sucked to the max. when i make the quip about coming out of the pandemic as a hunk, chunk or drunk; door number three is quite tempting. i have to work at midnight tonight and maybe again on Thursday night, and i am not thrilled to do so. a shot of something, might make that reality a bit more palatable, but my concern would be the spiral down into places i do not want to be. seriously, i have taken care of most of my past and have a course set for the future, and the present? well the present is not as bad as i like to make it out to be. at least i did not have to climb on my parent's roof to clean the snow out of their satellite dish last night. so i guess i need to get back to working and taking care of my bidness, in real time and allow myself the FREEDOM to have a bit of FAITH, THAT THIS TOO SHALL PASS, ALL I HAVE TO DO IS LIVE THROUGH IT.

∞ DT ∞

 

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letting go of the past 85 words ➥ Wednesday, October 27, 2004 by: donnot
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↔ the guilt, fear, and anger that once dominated me may spill into my new life, complicating my efforts to change and grow. ↔ 415 words ➥ Friday, October 27, 2006 by: donnot
δ for me, the past is like a bad dream. my life is not the same any more, Δ 277 words ➥ Saturday, October 27, 2007 by: donnot
δ the Twelve Steps are the formula that helps me learn to put the past in its place. δ 411 words ➥ Monday, October 27, 2008 by: donnot
√ i still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past √ 570 words ➥ Tuesday, October 27, 2009 by: donnot
℘ i want to look my past in the face, see it for what it really was ℘ 530 words ➥ Wednesday, October 27, 2010 by: donnot
← i DO NOT have to be controlled by my past → 572 words ➥ Thursday, October 27, 2011 by: donnot
“ my life is not what it once was and yet, ” 472 words ➥ Saturday, October 27, 2012 by: donnot
Ψ living today as the man i am becoming Ψ 232 words ➥ Sunday, October 27, 2013 by: donnot
≠ i am becoming free to find new ways to live, ≠ 563 words ➥ Monday, October 27, 2014 by: donnot
¶ living in the present ¶ 448 words ➥ Tuesday, October 27, 2015 by: donnot
❅ on being controlled ❆ 802 words ➥ Thursday, October 27, 2016 by: donnot
🍋 once the past 🍇 665 words ➥ Friday, October 27, 2017 by: donnot
🌊 the guilt and fear 🌈 490 words ➥ Saturday, October 27, 2018 by: donnot
🚔 living in a way 🚀 328 words ➥ Sunday, October 27, 2019 by: donnot
👁 seeing my past 👁 355 words ➥ Wednesday, October 27, 2021 by: donnot
💨 freed to find 💨 572 words ➥ Thursday, October 27, 2022 by: donnot
👎 accepting 👍 440 words ➥ Friday, October 27, 2023 by: donnot
🌄 living in today 🌄 348 words ➥ Sunday, October 27, 2024 by: donnot
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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 and earth do not act from (the impulse of) any wish to be
benevolent; they deal with all things as the dogs of grass are dealt
with. The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they
deal with the people as the dogs of grass are dealt with.