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Tue, Sep 1, 2009 09:25:13 AM


∞ i learn to be honest, no matter what and ∞
posted: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 09:25:13 AM

 

i learn to refrain from doing things i might want to hide. i learn to accept responsibility for my actions.
okay so i am running a bit behind schedule this morning. i am grateful today for the values i have learned as a result of working the program, or should i better say, living a program, as that is what it has become these days. i really am not that far behind, as this is my final task before running away with the love of my life
oh BY the way --

Happy Clean Date Anniversary Kathy, NINE years clean is awesome, i am so grateful that you became the love of my life and you fill a part of me, that was always empty.

that too, is a value i have come to cherish, the ability to love without conditions. so as i walk through and drive through this day, i wish to be reminded that the only reason i have values of any sort, and values that are actually part of the man i wish to become, is because someone believed in me all those days ago, and fostered me into a manner of living that has led to things far beyond my wildest dreams. for that, i will always be in debt, and i repay that debt, each day i stay clean and learn to do something new.
so off to Pagosa Springs we go!

∞ DT ∞

 

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☯ 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 course and nature of things is such that
What was in front is now behind;
What warmed anon we freezing find.
Strength is of weakness oft the spoil;
The store in ruins mocks our toil. Hence the sage puts away excessive
effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.