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Tue, Apr 29, 2008 10:22:58 AM


α coming to believe that our Higher Power has only the best in store for me …
posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 10:22:58 AM

 

is one way we can combat fear. i know from experience that, if i ask, the POWER i have come to understand will surely care for me. well i nguess i am being taken care of, although i would beg to differ right now. i slept an extra hour this morning, so now i feel rushed, but rested to get everything done that i need to do, so that i can focus on the task at hand, being present for what is going on at this service conference. oh yeah, the reading was about living in the present and not in the world of **what if**! of course i could do what i did yesterday, and write this locally and then post it globally, but i think this morning it is a better path to follow if i just, take care of business, take care of myself, then take care of my responsibility with what i was entrusted with by those who have sent me to woodland hills.
it was quite the day yesterday, and i felt at times that i was swimming against the current, in fact there was a time i almost said enough, i get it! the problem is that i also believe that when i say i am going to do something, i do it, and i did say i was going to accomplish a task, and it is done and out of my hands. so today, i just need to be present, ask for a bit of guidance when asked about my regions’s nomination from the floor, and allow the what ever to happen.
so off to get some change, a bit of sustenance and then into the fray, it is still a good day to recover.

∞ 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

1) The (state of) vacancy should be brought to the utmost degree,
and that of stillness guarded with unwearying vigour. All things alike
go through their processes of activity, and (then) we see them return
(to their original state). When things (in the vegetable world) have
displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its
root. This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness;
and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled
their appointed end.