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Mon, Jul 5, 2004 12:12:59 PM


how ironic
posted: Mon, Jul 5, 2004 12:12:59 PM

 

amazing
somedays the JFT reading is so applicable to me and others i dismiss it quickly as someting i am already doing
of course today i am doing everything i can to increase my connection to God
or am i
when i am dismissive of an idea regardless of the source there usually is some part of my program that is lacking and i use denial to protect my overly fragile ego
even though i pray twice daily, and meditate every morning there are many ways in which i can improve my conscious contact
am i listening for God's voice when i am making a decision?
can i meditate longer?
do i seek a spiritual priciple to apply in a given situation?
am i seeking outside validaion of myself and my program?
am i living in self-will?
have i truly surrendered my will and my life today and a continual basis?
am i doing my best to be part of the solution?
evidently, this reading did apply to me this morning and i need to seek out more ways to improve my conscious contact to continue to grow
complacency and the disease of addiction are allies and will kill me
so i guess i will do my best to establish, maintain and grow my conscious contact
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

2) There is always One who presides over the infliction death. He
who would inflict death in the room of him who so presides over it
may be described as hewing wood instead of a great carpenter. Seldom
is it that he who undertakes the hewing, instead of the great carpenter,
does not cut his own hands!