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Thu, Jan 6, 2005 05:33:15 AM
↔ the answers ↔
posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 05:33:15 AM
WHAT?? i do not have all the answers? i have not accumulated all the knowledge of the ages and as a result know why this works? a unqualified NO to both of these questions. that is not to say that i do know a thing or two, but ALL of the answers still elude me.
there have been many times in my life when i believed i had all the answers and was more than willing to loudly and arrogantly impart my so-called knowledge to anyone within earshot, whether they wanted to hear or not! i would love to say that those instances ended when i started recovery, but i am only a flawed human and this behavior has been carried into recovery.
today, i am satisfied with asking the question of HOW DO I APPLY THIS TO MY LIFE? i also have learned that i can ask WHY if i really need to, but i better be prepared for the awful response: BECAUSE IT HAS FOR MILLIONS OF ADDICTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS!
i am less concerned today about what goes on behind the scenes in the recovery process than i am about seeing the results. and believe me, the results have been FAR beyond my wildest imaginings! the truth is i am clean today, living a life that was just beyond my grasp for all those years, and WHY i have to follow a suggestion or two in my daily life is actually totally irrelevant.
LIVING THE PROGRAM provides all the answers i need right now!
∞ DT ∞
there have been many times in my life when i believed i had all the answers and was more than willing to loudly and arrogantly impart my so-called knowledge to anyone within earshot, whether they wanted to hear or not! i would love to say that those instances ended when i started recovery, but i am only a flawed human and this behavior has been carried into recovery.
today, i am satisfied with asking the question of HOW DO I APPLY THIS TO MY LIFE? i also have learned that i can ask WHY if i really need to, but i better be prepared for the awful response: BECAUSE IT HAS FOR MILLIONS OF ADDICTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS!
i am less concerned today about what goes on behind the scenes in the recovery process than i am about seeing the results. and believe me, the results have been FAR beyond my wildest imaginings! the truth is i am clean today, living a life that was just beyond my grasp for all those years, and WHY i have to follow a suggestion or two in my daily life is actually totally irrelevant.
LIVING THE PROGRAM provides all the answers i need right now!
∞ DT ∞
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While the author is a member of a 12 Step recovery fellowship, these writings are not intended to endorse or express the published wisdom of any fellowship.
These writings are not meant to be socially or politically correct, and if you take issue with any opinions expressed, please seek the guidance of someone wiser than me.
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
3) With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be
liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become
a vessel of the highest honour. Now-a-days they give up gentleness
and are all for being bold; economy, and are all for being liberal;
the hindmost place, and seek only to be foremost;--(of all which the
end is) death.