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Sun, Oct 26, 2008 05:12:44 PM


μ by working the steps, i can become a person i am proud to be. μ
posted: Sun, Oct 26, 2008 05:12:44 PM

 

i can freely tell the truth about myself, for i have nothing to hide. or do i? well it has been several hours since i read this reading, and it is way late in the day to be writing on this. i just got back from one of the best conventions i have personally attended, and although the speakers and workshops were probably not anything out of the ordinary, i felt something more than i have felt in at least a few conventions. i do not know what tripped the fantastic switch inside of me, perhaps it was step work with sponsees, or perhaps it was that the many people i had not seen for for a year, or perhaps it was because i finally defined and spoke my passion to people who were actually listening to me. whatever it was, i am running with the feeling that i feel good and surrendering the why and how to that POWER that is the source of my recovery.
but anyhow…
hellip; i do know that i have finished taking out the garbage from my ninth step and that i have forgiven myself for the harm i have done, and i can face the fellowship, my peers and my friends with a clear mind, being who i am, without falling back into the same old crap, at least for today.
well, i have more work to accomplish before running off to a meeting, so back to the salt mines!

∞ 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 only by this moderation that there is effected an early return
(to man's normal state). That early return is what I call the repeated
accumulation of the attributes (of the Tao). With that repeated accumulation
of those attributes, there comes the subjugation (of every obstacle
to such return). Of this subjugation we know not what shall be the
limit; and when one knows not what the limit shall be, he may be the
ruler of a state.