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โˆž center of the universe? โˆž

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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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

3) Their court(-yards and buildings) shall be well kept, but their
fields shall be ill-cultivated, and their granaries very empty. They
shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their
girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance
of property and wealth;--such (princes) may be called robbers and
boasters. This is contrary to the Tao surely!