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Sat, Aug 21, 2004 08:14:26 AM
friendship...
posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 08:14:26 AM
it is true that when i arrived here i lacked any friends and my family only let me hang arouind because they had to. as i progressed along this path i have gotten to make some very deep and abiding friendships, i also have had to learn how to let go.
and it is the letting go part i have the greatest difficulty with, somehow i have gotten the mistaken notion that once i develop a friendship, that nothing changes. we are friends forever, forgiving each other's foibles, and walking lockstep towards the future. the actual TRUTH in this matter is that everything changes and evolves especially relationships. so i guess that just for today i will learn to adcept my changing relationships and dael with the new realities as presented today.
-- DT --
and it is the letting go part i have the greatest difficulty with, somehow i have gotten the mistaken notion that once i develop a friendship, that nothing changes. we are friends forever, forgiving each other's foibles, and walking lockstep towards the future. the actual TRUTH in this matter is that everything changes and evolves especially relationships. so i guess that just for today i will learn to adcept my changing relationships and dael with the new realities as presented today.
-- 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
4) Words that are strictly true seem to be paradoxical.