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Thu, Dec 22, 2011 06:13:38 AM


… when i actively seek to be a healthy, loving, contributing part of my life …
posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2011 06:13:38 AM

 

and the lives of others around me, i using the greatest gift that recovery has given me. i really meant to make time to write yesterday, but just never found the ability to squeeze out even a hundred words. this morning, as i have decided to drive instead of ride down to Denver, i am struck by the wonder of it all. here i am, actually looking forward to a couple of clients going away and leaving me alone. a bizarre as that may sound, that is part of this new life i have been given, i can walk away from situations where i am abused, abusive or are just not healthy for me. that is certainly part of living in the here and now and having a program of recovery i can carry with me through my day to day existence.
i certainly have a bit of substance today and i certainly am a part of my life. so deep and insightful comments or wisdom, just this wish: may your holiday season live up to your expectations, i already know that mine will.

∞ 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 when the sovereign occupies his place as the Son of Heaven,
and he has appointed his three ducal ministers, though (a prince)
were to send in a round symbol-of-rank large enough to fill both the
hands, and that as the precursor of the team of horses (in the court-yard),
such an offering would not be equal to (a lesson of) this Tao, which
one might present on his knees.