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a simple joy

Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 05:57:57 AM

one of the greatest gifts i get from sticking around for a few days is witnessing those who came to recovery after me, grow and recover. after watching the seemingly endless stream of addicts go in and out over and over again, i get more than a little disheartened, and begin to wonder if there is something i am missing. and then it happens, someone new "gets" it and stays clean. then i get the gift of watching a zombie get the life they never had. for me this is one of the greatest joys i have ever experienced and lightens the burden of watching the revolving door and wondering if i am unique. each time i witness the opening of a closed mind and the freeing of the spirit that recovery brings each of us, i remember that i too can go back out that revolving door, but just for today i do not have to.
∞ 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

2) But I have three precious things which I prize and hold fast. The
first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking
from taking precedence of others.