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Posted: Sat, Dec 4, 2021 08:16:40 AM

of what i may think, i always seem to get what i need. there are times when i may be correct and state it badly and there are times when i am just plain wrong, but cover my true motivations under a pile of spiritual camouflage. i have come to a place where if i have to use more than ten words to get an idea to fit under a spiritual principle or suggestion from my predecessors, i am pretty sure i am living in a moment of self-will. once upon a time, i was certain of all kinds of shit, these days, that certainty is gone and sometimes it is better to step away and focus my attention on other matters.
this morning i made a decision that has relieved a whole much ado over nothing. there are times in my life when i hold to things far too tightly, the place i reached last night as i did my TENTH STEP revealed i had arrived at that very state of being and it was time for me to let go and get out of the way. of course i had a little “speech” rehearsed and was going to have the “last word” no matter what. when it came time to do the deed, after sitting this morning, i let go of that need and simply said, “so long, and thanks for all the fish.”
right here and right now, i feel as if i dropped a huge chunk of matter off of my back. as i head on over to my home group, i am certain that i have done the next right thing and when asked, i will not have to go into details, explanations or rationalizations. in less than ten words i can say that: “it was the right thing for me to do.” i do not need approval, allies or have to work behind anyone's back. just for today.

∞ 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 1

The grandest forms of active force
From Tao come, their only source.
Who can of Tao the nature tell?
Our sight it flies, our touch as well.
Eluding sight, eluding touch,
The forms of things all in it crouch;
Eluding touch, eluding sight,
There are their semblances, all right.
Profound it is, dark and obscure;
Things' essences all there endure.
Those essences the truth enfold
Of what, when seen, shall then be told.
Now it is so; 'twas so of old.
Its name--what passes not away;
So, in their beautiful array,
Things form and never know decay.

How know I that it is so with all the beauties of existing things?
By this (nature of the Tao).