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๐Ÿ”ญ willing to ๐Ÿ”ฎ

Posted: Sat, Nov 11, 2023 09:31:30 AM

explore new directions and see what may come of it, is quiet a topic to wrap my wind around this morning, as i post this quickie. i made a decision this morning to sleep a bit later than usual and then to go for a walk. that mile and a half felt good and my leg is feeling as if it will be more than ready to start training for my ascent to 19,000+ feet above sea level and a continent far, far away. as me and the dawg were walking i had to see what i could make optional this morning and what i “needed” to get done. stopping for coffee on my way to my home group was what i cut, so i could pound this out.
looking at the new directions i may be able to explore today, i have to speak this afternoon at convention and i am a bit nervous. it has been a very long minute since i spoke in front of a group that was not my home group and the last time i spoke at convention, i was pretty terrible. back then it was all about prepping to be a circuit speaker and i saw that as the start of that career. these days, i am quite sure that being a circuit speaker is not for me and i can just be myself and share just my experience, strength and hope and see where it goes. the new direction here? letting go of who i think i am and my need to have others approve of me. how well will that work? well it is time to post this little bit of mind-dumpery and find out.

∞ 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

2) It is only by this moderation that there is effected an early return
(to man's normal state). That early return is what I call the repeated
accumulation of the attributes (of the Tao). With that repeated accumulation
of those attributes, there comes the subjugation (of every obstacle
to such return). Of this subjugation we know not what shall be the
limit; and when one knows not what the limit shall be, he may be the
ruler of a state.