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prayer and meditation

Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 04:28:49 AM

for me, prayer and meditataion have opened up new vistas in my journey through the recovery process. coming from a place of non-belief, the fact that i even consider a daily routine of prayer and meditation seems pretty far-fetched. i did however, remain open to the possibility that not only did i have the time to add these to my daily routine, but i would come to find actual benefits from these activities. prayer allows me to stay grateful for what i have been given and to achnowledge the source. meditation allows me the opportunity to start my day with a quiet and serene moment.
i not only get a connection to the divine to start my day, i also get physical and emotional benefits. so for this addict, prayer and meditation have become a selfish way to spend a few minutes daily to maintain what i have been given.
-- 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

3) Thus it is that dignity finds its (firm) root in its (previous)
meanness, and what is lofty finds its stability in the lowness (from
which it rises). Hence princes and kings call themselves 'Orphans,'
'Men of small virtue,' and as 'Carriages without a nave.' Is not this
an acknowledgment that in their considering themselves mean they see
the foundation of their dignity? So it is that in the enumeration
of the different parts of a carriage we do not come on what makes
it answer the ends of a carriage. They do not wish to show themselves
elegant-looking as jade, but (prefer) to be coarse-looking as an (ordinary)
stone.