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Tue, Aug 11, 2020 09:09:59 AM
🗨 hearing 🗫
posted: Tue, Aug 11, 2020 09:09:59 AM
ah, but musing about what once was and what is, does not get me anywhere this morning.
Linda L,
CONGRATS! SEVENTEEN (17) years clean.
I am glad you keep coming back.
sitting here this morning, dealing with work issues and wondering when i am going to get my work-out in, i can empathize with those who seem to squirm when i share, that not everything is rainbows and daisies, just because i got clean and stayed clean. i often hear notions and idea that upset my worldview, in real life as well as when my peers share their experience strength and hope. where once i could dismiss those as not applying to me, today, i have to be a bit more cognizant of the fact that i am no different than they are, and what they share, no matter what i may “think” them or their recovery, does pertain to me. being present for what they say and how what they say makes me “feel” is the part of active listening that i can do a bit better, just for 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.
Another Look!
active listening 129 words ➥ Wednesday, August 11, 2004 by: donnot↔ can i hear you now? ↔ 373 words ➥ Thursday, August 11, 2005 by: donnot
δ the ability to listen actively was unknown to me in the isolation of my addiction δ 523 words ➥ Friday, August 11, 2006 by: donnot
δ i arrived in the fellowship with a very poor ability to listen. Δ 659 words ➥ Saturday, August 11, 2007 by: donnot
μ through active listening, i receive everything being offered to me from the fellowship, μ 333 words ➥ Monday, August 11, 2008 by: donnot
Δ to take full advantage of … 273 words ➥ Tuesday, August 11, 2009 by: donnot
⇒ through active listening, i hear things that work for me ⇐ 564 words ➥ Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by: donnot
¨ by concentrating on what is being shared shared, while it is being shared ¨ 754 words ➥ Thursday, August 11, 2011 by: donnot
… my active listening, helps me to empathize, … 513 words ➥ Saturday, August 11, 2012 by: donnot
∝ what could be active listening for me? ∝ 675 words ➥ Sunday, August 11, 2013 by: donnot
¹ in order to take full advantage of: ¹ 536 words ➥ Monday, August 11, 2014 by: donnot
¿ listening actively ? 734 words ➥ Tuesday, August 11, 2015 by: donnot
✴ the ideas and concepts ✴ 585 words ➥ Thursday, August 11, 2016 by: donnot
😜 striving to be 😝 672 words ➥ Friday, August 11, 2017 by: donnot
🎧 a very poor 🎧 546 words ➥ Saturday, August 11, 2018 by: donnot
🛑 setting aside 🛑 498 words ➥ Sunday, August 11, 2019 by: donnot
🍨 feelings such 🍨 430 words ➥ Wednesday, August 11, 2021 by: donnot
🤔 thoughts and opinions, 🗫 512 words ➥ Thursday, August 11, 2022 by: donnot
🎜 harmony 🤬 553 words ➥ Friday, August 11, 2023 by: donnot
☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
The grandest forms of active force
From Tao come, their only source.
Who can of Tao the nature tell?
Our sight it flies, our touch as well.
Eluding sight, eluding touch,
The forms of things all in it crouch;
Eluding touch, eluding sight,
There are their semblances, all right.
Profound it is, dark and obscure;
Things' essences all there endure.
Those essences the truth enfold
Of what, when seen, shall then be told.
Now it is so; 'twas so of old.
Its name--what passes not away;
So, in their beautiful array,
Things form and never know decay.
How know I that it is so with all the beauties of existing things?
By this (nature of the Tao).