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Mon, Dec 13, 2004 05:46:38 AM


∞  membership  ∞
posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 05:46:38 AM

 

although i may not have been a willing participant in my original decision to seek recovery and meeting attendance was enforced for me, it was my decision to become a fully participating member of the fellowship that saved my life.
at first i could not understand what was being offered, nor could i understand how the members i met were so happy and peaceful without using. i was sure that i was at some kind of bizarro cult that would brainwash me, shave my head and set me up in the airport with a pink can collecting donations and passing out tracts.
i came to discover over the next few months that although an outside agency was forcing me to attend meetings the decision to join and participate was sole mine.
thinking back, the decision i made to become a member was one of the better ones of my entire life. what i found was a new way to handle those little speed bumps of life, become a more complete person and lose the desire to use. i am grateful that i had that moment of clarity and that i too can recover my life from the ravages of active addiction.
∞ DT ∞

 

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α only addicts who are still suffering, if given the opportunity, ω 493 words ➥ Thursday, December 13, 2007 by: donnot
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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

1) All things are produced by the Tao, and nourished by its outflowing
operation. They receive their forms according to the nature of each,
and are completed according to the circumstances of their condition.
Therefore all things without exception honour the Tao, and exalt its
outflowing operation.