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a new reality

Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2004 05:08:45 AM

well the new reality for me today means dealing with the fact that i am not the one to give up 60% of my liver to a close friend. i have yet to totally sort out my feelings about being disqualified as the donor but i do know that if i use the tools of this program and allow myself the chance to feel they will sort themselves out.
i would love to say that i always live in the here and now, not agonizing or glorifying my past nor fantasizing about my future. the truth is that i still engage in these flights of fancy from time to time. these trips out of reality usually come when i am dissatisfied or afraid of what is happening in the here and now. through the process of recovery i have a bit of self-understanding these days and i can see these for what they are:
RUNNING AWAY!
i may not always like what i find when i live in the moment, but if i use the tools i can handle, tolerate and learn to accept the situation for what it is
·LIFE ON LIFE'S TERMS!
--DT --

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Tao Te Ching

☯ 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

3) He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without
desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them
from presuming to act (on it). When there is this abstinence from
action, good order is universal.