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โˆž i cannot promote the FELLOWSHIP that has provided me a new way to live but โˆž

Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 07:55:05 AM

when i put principles into action in my life, i attract newer members, just as i was attracted to recovery.
well as many of you know since i harp on it all the time i was not exactly attracted to this fellowship, i was forced to go to another and used this fellowship as my social life, because i was under the impression that there was no long term recovery here. and if i think about it after that first thirteen mo9nths i was attracted and made the change because only here did i find a global solution to all of what was going on inside and outside of me.
only this fellowship provided the language and the understanding that what i used and the manner in which i used were irrelevant, they were mere symptoms of a problem that affected me physically, spiritually and emotionally. that problem, why the disease of addiction! and the solution? a simple spiritual program that leads to a new way of living.
so the question today is, now that i have a bit of time clean, am i sending the message that attracts new members to try this way of living? had you asked me a week ago, i would have said no way, after all i was way beyond this whole shmear. this morning i will say, i certainly hope so. if i can get
three thousand four hundred and ninety days in a row clean, and a bit of serenity, and some sanity and even a material gift or two so can any addict! i had to use every day, and now that desire has left me. i was miserable, selfish, self-obsessed and self-centered and today i am less of all of those things. i have found a program that keeps the part of me i call my disease in remission, all i have to do is live it to the best of my ability every day. and today that part is easy so far, i have yet to venture out into reality however here i go.... let me see if i can carry my principles into the world around me.

∞ 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) There is always One who presides over the infliction death. He
who would inflict death in the room of him who so presides over it
may be described as hewing wood instead of a great carpenter. Seldom
is it that he who undertakes the hewing, instead of the great carpenter,
does not cut his own hands!