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Wed, Nov 8, 2023 09:43:12 AM
📿 praying 🙏
posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2023 09:43:12 AM
for tolerance is not something i would actually do, as the way things work for me, i would get far to many opportunities to have to practice tolerance in my daily journey. the source material certainly could have used a better headline, such as praying to tolerate those whom i find annoying or annoy me, for one reason or another. i am well-versed in praying for those with whom i may have an issue or three and most of the time, i do end-up finding them a bit more tolerable as time rolls on. oddly enough, if i do think about, i guess i am praying for a bit of tolerance, just being very specific instead sending out a global request, as in respond to all 😁
this has been one of those days where nothing seems to be going as i want and expect it to go. i got up late because my FitBit ran out of juice and since then, i feel as if i am swimming upstream and am not getting very far. what that means for me anyhow, is to let go of control and allow stuff to happen as it will. i have PT and a massage today so i am using some sick time to cover those hours at work. i have accomplished nothing at work and i am rushing to get this done, as this day just does not seem to have enough minutes in it. so i will take a deep breath, cruise around the block and get over to my physical therapy appointment. all i NEED to do today, is to stay clean, and remember that if i am present, the answers to my questions will be revealed to me, maybe not when i want them to be, but when i need them to be .
this has been one of those days where nothing seems to be going as i want and expect it to go. i got up late because my FitBit ran out of juice and since then, i feel as if i am swimming upstream and am not getting very far. what that means for me anyhow, is to let go of control and allow stuff to happen as it will. i have PT and a massage today so i am using some sick time to cover those hours at work. i have accomplished nothing at work and i am rushing to get this done, as this day just does not seem to have enough minutes in it. so i will take a deep breath, cruise around the block and get over to my physical therapy appointment. all i NEED to do today, is to stay clean, and remember that if i am present, the answers to my questions will be revealed to me, maybe not when i want them to be, but when i need them to be .
∞ DT ∞
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
2) How do I know that it is so? By these facts:--In the kingdom the
multiplication of prohibitive enactments increases the poverty of
the people; the more implements to add to their profit that the people
have, the greater disorder is there in the state and clan; the more
acts of crafty dexterity that men possess, the more do strange contrivances
appear; the more display there is of legislation, the more thieves
and robbers there are.