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Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2021 07:17:26 AM

i treat myself, has always been a very **tough** concept for me to wrap my head around, even with a minute clean. sitting here this morning, my big concern is paying for the first two nights in Athens, as the final payment is due today and all i have heard is crickets since i made the reservation, so of course i am concerned about it. not that i have a bad feeling about it, i just want to get things in order. taking responsibility for my stuff, is something i am starting to get used to doing, and this is just one more thing. so i have done everything in my power to get the answers i desire, time to let it go and understand that my power ends here.
it seems that when i come across this particular entry i keep coming back to how i can be better at treating myself. when i get into situations, such as my job ending or the payment not being made, even though neither of those are my “fault” i take that as a sign that i have not been “good” enough and that i have to “pay my dues” for not doing what i “should” have been doing. the whole judge, jury and executioner mode kicks in and i start to take responsibility for everything, believing that if only i was better at this life gig, these things would not happen. where i am ending up at today, is that i NO LONGER need to dwell in that house of pain, after all, i have and will continue to do, what needs to be done, to take care of myself in these matters.
on that yippy-skippy note, i do believe it is time to get out and about and see what sort of mileage i can get out my running shoes this morning. i am okay and i certainly can allow myself the freedom to continue to be okay, after all, i did not run to another fellowship, after i was no longer a big fish in the fellowship that fuels my recovery. i am not whining about taking precautions to stay COVID free as my vacation approaches. most of all, i can see that i am not broken and even though that lie, still echoes in my head, from time to time. just for today, i can rest assured that i can be the best person possible and not hurt myself in the process.

∞ 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

He who in (Tao's) wars has skill
Assumes no martial port;
He who fights with most good will
To rage makes no resort.
He who vanquishes yet still
Keeps from his foes apart;
He whose hests men most fulfil
Yet humbly plies his art.

Thus we say, 'He ne'er contends,
And therein is his might.'
Thus we say, 'Men's wills he bends,
That they with him unite.'
Thus we say, 'Like Heaven's his ends,
No sage of old more bright.'