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Wed, Dec 9, 2015 07:40:28 AM
☾ listening ☽
posted: Wed, Dec 9, 2015 07:40:28 AM
man oh man, did i get off on a tangent! i guess i really have been listening all along.
now to those of you in my life, i care for and love you all, and hopefully my little diatribe did not offend you. in truth, the separation of us and them does more damage to our country than a few lone wolf nut jobs, who do very little to hide where they are eventually going. those whom i interact with, can rest assured that, today anyway, i am actually listening to what you are saying and doing my best to be present for you, when i can shut down the klaxons of hate and intolerance that are blaring from every orifice in the media today. it is a good day to be clean, and yes even a better day to say neither gun control nor dragnet surveillance is the answer to the very minor problem of domestic terrorism, maybe just a few more people listening to what those in their lives are actually sayin, will do the trick.
∞ DT ∞
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
2) The multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying
a full banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seem listless
and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of their presence.
I am like an infant which has not yet smiled. I look dejected and
forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. The multitude of men all have
enough and to spare. I alone seem to have lost everything. My mind
is that of a stupid man; I am in a state of chaos. Ordinary men look
bright and intelligent, while I alone seem to be benighted. They look
full of discrimination, while I alone am dull and confused. I seem
to be carried about as on the sea, drifting as if I had nowhere to
rest. All men have their spheres of action, while I alone seem dull
and incapable, like a rude borderer. (Thus) I alone am different from
other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).