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Mon, May 19, 2008 09:48:21 AM


∞ sometimes it takes a special effort to jog my thinking out ∞
posted: Mon, May 19, 2008 09:48:21 AM

 

...of the daily rut and onto a higher track. one simple question can put me on the high road: what do i think my Higher Power wants for me tomorrow? well the simple and sweet version is to stay clean. i am quite sure there is way more than that going on, and am even willing to consider the possibility that it is happening. i have, however, tired of trying to guess the will of my HIGHER POWER for me, for anytime in the future,including the next few minutes. rather, i try and allow myself to feel my way through to the next moment, opening myself up for that voice to be revealed to me. not that i expect that voice to take on a booming, ethereal quality and tell me point blank what to do next. and not that i believe that i am some sort of puppet moving at the behest of some divine puppet master. one of the gifts, i get everyday is the ability to choose my path, based on what i know feel and believe. not that i always choose the high road, nor do i always do the next right thing, and it is a good thing that i have a daily ritual, that surrounds both ends of my day. i hate to say that it is a ritual, but i am moving in the direction of being more honest with myself, and doing a tenth step has become a ritual, rather than a habit. i still make a conscious choice to do this automatically every single evening, so in my belief system the conscious choice makes it different than a habit.
but anyhow, i digress, what the reading was about, at least in my addict brain, was making a connection to the divine when i am stuck in the mundane world, and pondering the nature of the will of my HIGHER POWER for me. that does not mean i try and guess, nor predict, i just ponder and let my mind go where it will. i prefer to do this at the start of my day, so the question that i started with would need a bit of word smithing; what do i think my Higher Power wants for me today? and with that simple yet eloquent question i can get my day started off right and move on to the plane of a higher existence at least for the brief period of time i can quiet my mind and listen. so anyhow, one of the things i need to do, is to go and run some errands. so it is out of the divine and into the mundane for me!

∞ 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 2

2) It is simply by being pained at (the thought of) having this disease
that we are preserved from it. The sage has not the disease. He knows
the pain that would be inseparable from it, and therefore he does
not have it.