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ฮฑ a clean addict is, indeed, a vision of hope ฯ‰

Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 07:34:48 AM

and what a responsibility to live up to. DAMMIT! now i get to be a vision of hope for some newcomer, viewing me through rose-colored glasses. well at least the reading did not say i have to be anymore than i am, min fact it specifically said to show those newcomers who i am and what i am struggling with today, even though they may be unable to understand it right now.
truthfully, i never signed up for a whole bunch of stuff that comes with doing this recovery gig for a few days and one of the things i really do not like is being forced on to some sort of pedestal. but i also do not believe that i should behave in a manner that is untrue to my current nature. so what happens? i act as who i am today and if that appears to be spiritual or fucked-up to someone else, it is not my concern. all i can do is show those in the rooms that yes i can practice recovery, remain abstinent and find a new way to live -- and most of all BE as HOPEFUL as i can about what will come if i continue to trod this path!
more than enough 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 2

1) He whose boldness appears in his daring (to do wrong, in defiance
of the laws) is put to death; he whose boldness appears in his not
daring (to do so) lives on. Of these two cases the one appears to
be advantageous, and the other to be injurious. But

When Heaven's anger smites a man,
Who the cause shall truly scan? On this account the sage feels a difficulty
(as to what to do in the former case).