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Tue, Apr 12, 2005 05:28:43 AM
↔ accepting my place ↔
posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 05:28:43 AM
well the reading actually said humbly accept my place in the BIG picture...
when i came to recovery, i had no idea what the word ‘humble’ meant nor any clue what my place may be. the disease of addiction had stripped me of any or all perspective as to where i fit in this world. time, some step work and more than a few suggestions from those members who were here taught me a bit about what is and is not. today i know that my disease and the behaviors i choose to engage in effects far more than myself. not that i have any power or anything like that, just that i may have an effect. when i walk around acting-out of self-will i injure others. when i withdraw into my shell i affect others. when i choose to spout off my opinions without being asked, i affect others. but when i practice a few spiritual principles in just a few of my affairs i also affect others. i realize that i do have the power today to change at least a small part of the world for better or worse. i may not be responsible for my disease, but i am responsible for my recovery and i am not powerless any more over the greater part of my behaviors and attitudes.
so i guess what i am trying to say, is that just for today i will do my part to make part of this world a better place.
∞ DT ∞
when i came to recovery, i had no idea what the word ‘humble’ meant nor any clue what my place may be. the disease of addiction had stripped me of any or all perspective as to where i fit in this world. time, some step work and more than a few suggestions from those members who were here taught me a bit about what is and is not. today i know that my disease and the behaviors i choose to engage in effects far more than myself. not that i have any power or anything like that, just that i may have an effect. when i walk around acting-out of self-will i injure others. when i withdraw into my shell i affect others. when i choose to spout off my opinions without being asked, i affect others. but when i practice a few spiritual principles in just a few of my affairs i also affect others. i realize that i do have the power today to change at least a small part of the world for better or worse. i may not be responsible for my disease, but i am responsible for my recovery and i am not powerless any more over the greater part of my behaviors and attitudes.
so i guess what i am trying to say, is that just for today i will do my part to make part of this world a better place.
∞ DT ∞
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
3) Thus it is that dignity finds its (firm) root in its (previous)
meanness, and what is lofty finds its stability in the lowness (from
which it rises). Hence princes and kings call themselves 'Orphans,'
'Men of small virtue,' and as 'Carriages without a nave.' Is not this
an acknowledgment that in their considering themselves mean they see
the foundation of their dignity? So it is that in the enumeration
of the different parts of a carriage we do not come on what makes
it answer the ends of a carriage. They do not wish to show themselves
elegant-looking as jade, but (prefer) to be coarse-looking as an (ordinary)
stone.