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Fri, Oct 21, 2005 05:23:59 AM
∞ holding on to today ∞
posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 05:23:59 AM
what it did teach me was that even after a few years clean, even through i live a program of recovery, and even though i know what the consequences are for me, i am still an addict and i can still obsess about using, i am no different than the man i took to the ARC yesterday. well i am a bit different, i have tools that i can chooses to use so i do not have to choose to use. i have people in my life who will guide me to a spiritual solution. and i have a HIGHER POWER that will keep me clean, provided that i get out of the way.
so today is a wonderful morning even though it is cloudy and rainy and i just washed me car. i have the privilege to recover one more day. and for that i am grateful today!
∞ 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).