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Sat, Jul 9, 2022 12:56:30 AM


👍 underplaying 👎
posted: Sat, Jul 9, 2022 12:56:30 AM

 

the changes that have been manifest in my life, since i accepted this manner of living, is something i struggle with, from time to time. living as i did, in the dark corners of what i was, never accepting i was good enough and walking a path of deception, it is hard for me to accept that i have changed at all. in fact, what i see is what i cannot or will not accomplish as the reality of my life, instead of looking at my sucesses. i tell myself that is just the cynic within and i will “always” be that way, so i might as well go with the flow and just be that sort of “negative nellie” type of person, especially when i look at myself.
this morning, what came screaming up from the depths was resistence to beliveing wht i once accepted as the “TRUTH.” it is true that i have been a self-absorbed shit from time to time on vacation, BUT that does not meaan that i AM a self-absorbed shit. it would be so easy to slide into a pit of self-deprecation. the reading and what i heard this morning is a foil against that sort of behavior, i may not be perfect, but i am recovering and doing a helluva lot better than i might be, because i know how to live a program of recovery and have the desire to do so.

∞ 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 2

1) Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who
are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious
are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively
learned; the extensively learned do not know it.