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Posted: Sat, Jun 28, 2025 09:12:12 AM

discarding much of my damaged thinking, is not something i think about very often, if at all, as a matter of fact. it just seems that each day that i live in active recovery, more and more just sloughs off. the question remains, however, how did my thinking about myself get so bad and why do i still struggle to keep it in check? in fact, this seems to be the entry point i was looking for, into my STEP THREE writing, is keeping my negative self-talk and abasement something i have power over, or is this something i need to surrender into the care of the POWER that fuels my recovery? questions, questions, questions!
as i got rolling this morning, i mad a list of stuff i have the desire to accomplish over the next few days. as a person of leisure at the moment, i do need something to fill my hours each day, until my next adventure commences. what i do not want to do, is to watch countless hours of TV, spend days becoming an expert at my computer game, or waste away in bed. i sort of see this as a dress rehearsal for when i really retire and i want to work some of the kinks out, before that day actually arrives. pickle-ball or golf, may be the burning question! 😉 🤣
anyhow, this morning as i have my plans made: home group, lunch, laundry, code assessment, garage and walk, before i start binging TV again, i know that what i have planned and what i get done, may not quite line up. certainly a great exercise is starting off my life at a slower pace: planning way too much and beating myself up, for not getting it all done. 🤣 so it is off to Boulder and into the fray. i know that today, i can give and receive unconditional love, when i do not think about it and consider the cost, as there is NONE!

∞ 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) Let the kingdom be governed according to the Tao, and the manes
of the departed will not manifest their spiritual energy. It is not
that those manes have not that spiritual energy, but it will not be
employed to hurt men. It is not that it could not hurt men, but neither
does the ruling sage hurt them.