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โˆž my **quiet time** need not be lengthy to be effective, provided it is consistent โˆž

Posted: Thu, Jul 3, 2008 09:25:53 AM

twenty minutes taken regularly each day, however, renews and reinforces an already lively contact with my Higher Power. i understand the suggestion of twenty minutes and perhaps if i add up all the time is spend during the couple of times each day i stop and take the quiet time it adds up to twenty minutes. however, i do believe that the reading was speaking to length of time, but rather the maintenance of a routine. it is something i try and get the men i sponsor to engage in, and something that i have found helpful it keeping my recovery going -- a recovery routine that includes prayer and meditation. so back to the task at hand, writing about how my recovery routine helps me to stay clean. i have no doubts that such activity is important, at least to this addict. i know i had routines in active addiction, i also know that i am a creature of habit who needs to have routines in my life. so it feels quite natural, that to recover i need to replace my routines of active addiction with routines that promote my active recovery. so spending a few minutes at the beginning and end of my day asking for help and being grateful for the help i received is a good thing fopr me. spending some time in the morning listening rather than asking is also a good way for me, to get my day rolling. but anyhow i have things to do and people to see, so it is off to the rat race to see what i can get done, this day. after all, it is a good day to be in recovery.

∞ 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

2) Music and dainties will make the passing guest stop (for a time).
But though the Tao as it comes from the mouth, seems insipid and has
no flavour, though it seems not worth being looked at or listened
to, the use of it is inexhaustible.