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ฮผ as soon as i got clean than i begin putting other priorities ahead of my recovery. ฮผ

Posted: Sat, Nov 22, 2008 12:33:30 PM

careers, families, relationships -- all these are part of the life i find once i have laid the foundation of my recovery. i see it in others and i see it in myself. although it has been some time since i GOT clean, the creeping priorities of my sliding scale of time, jumps up and bites me in the a$$! okay, maybe it is not that bad, but i have a tendency to forget, that anything, and i mean ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING, i put in front of my recovery, i can expect to lose.
so for me this morning, this seemed to one of those preaching to the choir kind of readings, i could go on and on about how this is oh so applicable in my life, but i think that it is just best to say that my task today is to focus on what my priorities are, and sign-off and go back to work.
it is a good day to recover and remember what i need to put first!

∞ 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 2

5) Who uses well his light,
Reverting to its (source so) bright,
Will from his body ward all blight,
And hides the unchanging from men's sight.