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ยจ my best qualities are what i want others to notice ยจ

Posted: Sat, Mar 27, 2010 11:57:39 AM

the more i concentrate on the positive qualities in others, the more i will notice them in myself. as i sit here, much later than i usually do, i am impressed by the amount of effort i had to put in, just to get here. one of my clients forgot about their limits and as a result, my website account was suspended. to get to where i could actually write this,was quite the effort and one that may have sent me stomping off in rage and justifying that rage with a quick judgment about how smart someone really was. so now that i can write and i have taken precautions to prevent that from happening over the weekend again, i am content and i am willing to stop judging, at least for right now.
i just read a book that left me with an idea that is quite appropriate to this reading, although it is something i know, namely, that when i am judging someone else, i am setting myself up to be superior to them. the need to feel superior, while understandable in the light of my progress to date, is still disturbing to me. i know, this is is a process not an event, and i know that it is a human trait as well as a manifestation of my emotional state. all of that is nice, and it does wonders for getting me from being so hard on myself, but i wonder when i will let go of the need to play these power games in my relationships and just submit to the fact that i am no better or no worse than anyone else walking the face of this planet. the HOPE is that i want to change, that i am willing to allow the process to work and that if i keep doing what i have doing, working a program of active recovery, this so-called NEED to feel superior will subside into the ether.
anyhow, i have to get cracking on what my plan of the day was, and see what i can get done today. life is good and i can let go of my bad behaviors and be more than i was yesterday. so with that thought i will sign-off to next time.

∞ 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 1

1) The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps;
the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed;
the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful closer needs no
bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible;
the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what
he has bound will be impossible. In the same way the sage is always
skilful at saving men, and so he does not cast away any man; he is
always skilful at saving things, and so he does not cast away anything.
This is called 'Hiding the light of his procedure.'