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Sat, Jan 6, 2007 08:52:18 AM
∞ the value of endless speculation pales in comparison to... ∞
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.
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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While the author is a member of a 12 Step recovery fellowship, these writings are not intended to endorse or express the published wisdom of any fellowship.
These writings are not meant to be socially or politically correct, and if you take issue with any opinions expressed, please seek the guidance of someone wiser than me.
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
1) (Those who) possessed in highest degree the attributes (of the
Tao) did not (seek) to show them, and therefore they possessed them
(in fullest measure). (Those who) possessed in a lower degree those
attributes (sought how) not to lose them, and therefore they did not
possess them (in fullest measure).