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Thu, Feb 24, 2005 05:24:17 AM


∞  new way of living ∞
posted: Thu, Feb 24, 2005 05:24:17 AM

 

this morning i am feeling somewhere between great and crummy. once more a section in the current step i am writing has kicked my butt. the daily meditation however assures me that i am on the right path. you know "... i will work my next step." this is little consolation for me, but i do know that i am progressing in a direction that will lead me to become the person i was meant to be. this means that i have to cooperate with the process and not fight it. this means that i have to persevere and continue to do what is front of me, regardless of how i think it will make me feel. and for me right here, right now, it means that i have to continue writing my first step out. i have yet to dies of a feeling and i have yet to died from step work, even though lately there are days when i think dieing may be preferable to feeling. but i will not do anything to drastic today. but i will call some friends and fellow travelers and let them know that i have been better, because that is what i NEED to do to stay clean today.
∞ 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

3) Therefore a sage has said,
'He who accepts his state's reproach,
Is hailed therefore its altars' lord;
To him who bears men's direful woes
They all the name of King accord.'