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Fri, Jan 12, 2007 09:21:18 AM
∞ often, my spiritual awakening is something that grows stronger over time. ∞
posted: Fri, Jan 12, 2007 09:21:18 AM
this is very true for me, in fact i miss most of my spiritual awakenings by days, weeks and months. i usually do not get burning bush experiences when it comes to my spiritual awakenings but if i did i would probably drop dead from shock. so how in the world am i supposed to get better? well all i have to do is what is suggested, you know the drill -- go to meetings, speak to an addict, work with my sponsor, read the literature and pray. oh yeah and work the steps.
the reading does not suggest that this will lead to a profound spiritual experience, but it does suggest that over time my spirit will awaken to new possibilities and ideas. so here i sit pondering spiritual stuff while sitting in the material world wondering what responsibilities i am not meeting right now. well it is not actually that bad, but i am more than a bit distracted so i think i will move on and if something jumps out at me as i pass through my day i will add a post script.
∞ 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.
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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).