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Wed, Nov 24, 2004 06:33:33 AM
grateful for my life? just as it is today?
posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 06:33:33 AM
this has always been a problem for me, no matter how good i feel, no matter how many gifts i have received, no matter how well i appear to be doing, i always seem to want more. i know i suffer from a disease that demands that i get more and more. i can never be satisfied with what i have. this morning's reading reminds me that for me to be happy, joyous and free all i need to do is look at what i have and be grateful.
a concept that is simple and easy to implement on a moment by moment basis. nothing in this says i have to do it tomorrow or a year from now or even an hour from now, just right here and right now
so for me i guess i need to start NOW and let the next moments take care of themselves
-- DT --
a concept that is simple and easy to implement on a moment by moment basis. nothing in this says i have to do it tomorrow or a year from now or even an hour from now, just right here and right now
so for me i guess i need to start NOW and let the next moments take care of themselves
-- DT --
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
2) What men dislike is to be orphans, to have little virtue, to be
as carriages without naves; and yet these are the designations which
kings and princes use for themselves. So it is that some things are
increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being
increased.