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∞ my addiction has been a source of shame to me. i have hidden myself from others, ∞

Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 12:11:49 PM

sure that if anyone got to know who i really was they would reject me. rejection was something only i was allowed to do, and i made sure throughout my active addiction that it was my choice to reject someone first. of course the reading has nothing in the world to do with rejection and everything to do with accepting who and what i am. so exactly how does the digression about rejection fit into what i am trying to write about today? well one of the people i rejected was myself. for as long as i can remember i have wanted to someone, anyone who was not me. not only did i not fit in, in social situations, i fantasized about being another entirely different person and living in any entirely different manner. so for quite a long time, i was unacceptable to myself and lived in the twilight between reality and fantasy, changing as i needed to, to fit in with whoever happened to be around. i so desperately wanted to be part of something and tried to do.
this little missive is getting interrupted by far to many other tasks today, sh let me end with since coming to the program, working a step or three and opening my mind to some spiritual principles, not the least if self-acceptance, i do accept myself better than i ever have. i no longer constantly fantasize about being someone different and i have learned to live comfortably in my own skin. quite an accomplishment!

∞ 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 1

2) The multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying
a full banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seem listless
and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of their presence.
I am like an infant which has not yet smiled. I look dejected and
forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. The multitude of men all have
enough and to spare. I alone seem to have lost everything. My mind
is that of a stupid man; I am in a state of chaos. Ordinary men look
bright and intelligent, while I alone seem to be benighted. They look
full of discrimination, while I alone am dull and confused. I seem
to be carried about as on the sea, drifting as if I had nowhere to
rest. All men have their spheres of action, while I alone seem dull
and incapable, like a rude borderer. (Thus) I alone am different from
other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).