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Sat, Apr 12, 2008 09:42:31 AM


δ i do understand suffering and, in recovery, i can do our best to alleviate it. δ
posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2008 09:42:31 AM

 

when my individual contribution is combined with others, i become an essential part of a grand design. i am connected at last. so for a Saturday morning i am far from home and have been up for way to long already. the drive to where i am presents a parallel to the reading. on the way down, i finally came to terms with why i was so involved in chaos and controversy over the past week. what it comes down to, is that i share a passion and a vision but not necessarily the means for accomplishing it. within in me i find an awakening to being true and whole, and to not be who i am, and let those with whom i serve know who i am, i am being dishonest and at best disingenuous. the conflict withing, coming from my fear of being wrong and my need to be right, spilled out of my human shell, and as a reult chaos swirled around me. so this morning way down south, i find a new direction for this inner conflict, be true to myself, express my doubt and reservations out loud and let the process work. a paradigm shift for sure for me, keeping a vision in mind but focusing on the process of achieving it and allowing others that same creative freedom. i do make a difference, and my legacy is that in some small, perhaps insignificant way i can assist my vision in be realized.
so the time to go take care of responsibility has come and now i must leave. see you all later!

∞ 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) So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to
(the idea of) the other; that difficulty and ease produce the one
(the idea of) the other; that length and shortness fashion out the
one the figure of the other; that (the ideas of) height and lowness
arise from the contrast of the one with the other; that the musical
notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with
another; and that being before and behind give the idea of one following
another.