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โˆž the value of endless speculation pales in comparison to... โˆž

Posted: Sat, Jan 6, 2007 08:52:18 AM

...the experience of addicts who have found a way to stay clean and live clean.
boy has it been hard to knuckle down and write this today. i have started this process at least two or three times and have found something else to distract me. i guess i really do not want to admit that i do not know everything i NEED to know about how to recover and how this whole recovery gig works! so it goes, the honest truth is that the longer i stay clean the more amazed i become that this recovery stuff works for me at all. what i wanted when i got here and what i am getting today are so diametrically opposed that all i can say is that it is a good thing that i have yet to learn everything about life, the universe, everything and most importantly me and my recovery.
so with that thought i think i will move on with my day and if something else occurs to me as i proceed through my daily travails, i will jot it down and post an update later.

∞ 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

He who in (Tao's) wars has skill
Assumes no martial port;
He who fights with most good will
To rage makes no resort.
He who vanquishes yet still
Keeps from his foes apart;
He whose hests men most fulfil
Yet humbly plies his art.

Thus we say, 'He ne'er contends,
And therein is his might.'
Thus we say, 'Men's wills he bends,
That they with him unite.'
Thus we say, 'Like Heaven's his ends,
No sage of old more bright.'