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Mon, Dec 20, 2004 05:40:42 AM


∞ center of the universe? ∞
posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 05:40:42 AM

 

so, the world does not revolve around me? BUMMER! i know i believed that when i first came to recovery and probably for quite a while in early recovery, after all were you all not here to help me get better? and did i not NEED every bit of love and attention you gave me? OF COURSE, but you gave that to me not because i was entitled to it, but because you had learned how to live by a spiritual principle or two.
today i do understand that to nurture my spirit i need to give of myself to not only those i share time with but also to the world around me. learning what my place was in this world and how to live there was a difficult but rather simple task, all i had to was give up all my preconceived notions of who and what i was, and what i was entitled to and learn to live.
so over the course of time, i now have the ability to give back to this world and those around me and have a better idea my place in the world.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS ALL
∞ 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

3) Who can take his own superabundance and therewith serve all under
heaven? Only he who is in possession of the Tao!