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โ†” a curse? a blessing! โ†”

Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 05:34:51 AM

yes i am clean today. i am happy with who i have become, have few regrets about who i was and am confident in who i will become, nevertheless there are times i feel the weight of my disease and that it was and is the bane of my existence. after all normal people do not have to jump through all the hoops i have to, just get up out of bed and face the world. normies do have to learn or relearn all those things that i missed while growing up.
even though i feel the weight of my disease, without having come to this journey i would not have any sort of spiritual life. i would not have the depth of self-understanding nor the tools to live in the here and now. and most of all i would not have the friends and the relationships i now have in my life. this program gave me so much more than 2710 days of abstinence, it gave me the tools i neglected to pick-up during my life in active addiction and a manner of living today that is without comparison.
so although active addiction may be odious to me and seem like a burden, without it i would not have the benefits of a new way to live.
and that is the nature of my gratitude today, i am blessed for being cursed!
∞ 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

4) Therefore the sage knows (these things) of himself, but does not
parade (his knowledge); loves, but does not (appear to set a) value
on, himself. And thus he puts the latter alternative away and makes
choice of the former.