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Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2022 07:09:58 AM

i try to make my life better have certainly changed over the days i have been clean. i am not a super hopeful type and often i equate hoping with wishing. as a cynical pragmatist, it is hard to live in hopeful optimism and it shows daily in how i walk through my life. what works for me these days, is a bit of compartmentalization. the wall between HOPE and FANTASY is what is actually achievable and what is not. choosing to stay clean tomorrow certainly falls into the hope part. winning a ginormous lottery jackpot, well that is on the fantasy side, even if i bought hundreds of tickets. i know my odds of winning do not change based on the number of entries i buy, no matter what “common sense” may seem to indicate.
this morning, i am hopeful that i will be able to run pain free for a bit longer than yesterday, as i rehab my beat up knee. this morning i am certain that i can stay clean until i go to bed tonight as i have access to the power to do so, a gift from the POWER that fuels my recovery. today, i am hopeful that i will complete my first form and have it styled and working in the manner i wish it to be, before i end my work day. and because i mentioned it, maybe i will spend two dollars on my chance to win hundreds of millions of dollars, after all, lightening could strike 🤣
anyways, i do have work to do and some steps to get. i know that IF i choose to be practical and manage my time well, what i hope to get done today, will become reality and i will be able to sleep this evening knowing that i did the very best i could, with what i had. maybe, just maybe, i need to start giving others that same benefit of doubt, as i HOPE they snap out of their self-obsession and start to see their reality for what it is.

∞ 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).