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Mon, Jan 22, 2007 12:34:44 PM
∞ learning in recovery is hard work. ∞
posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 12:34:44 PM
the things i most need to know are often the hardest to learn.
i know this sounds like one of those best selling how to help yourself books or a seminar that you pay big buck$ for and you get the secrets to self-enlightenment. well although i find this particular reading more than a bit cheesy, i do not disagree with the whole schooling metaphor and about being the student sometimes and the teacher at other times. it has been my experience that the lessons i WANT to learn and the lessons that i NEED to learn are seldom the same thing and that seems to be a BIG BUMMER, most days.
today on the other hand i am learning a few lessons on what i need to do a move forward with my relationships with myself, my girlfriend and my friends.
so anyhow, i am really pressed for time this afternoon, it has been a very strange day and i need to move forward and see what i can accomplish today!
i know this sounds like one of those best selling how to help yourself books or a seminar that you pay big buck$ for and you get the secrets to self-enlightenment. well although i find this particular reading more than a bit cheesy, i do not disagree with the whole schooling metaphor and about being the student sometimes and the teacher at other times. it has been my experience that the lessons i WANT to learn and the lessons that i NEED to learn are seldom the same thing and that seems to be a BIG BUMMER, most days.
today on the other hand i am learning a few lessons on what i need to do a move forward with my relationships with myself, my girlfriend and my friends.
so anyhow, i am really pressed for time this afternoon, it has been a very strange day and i need to move forward and see what i can accomplish today!
∞ 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.
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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 2
1) My words are very easy to know, and very easy to practise; but
there is no one in the world who is able to know and able to practise
them.