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โˆž i am sorry โˆž

Posted: Wed, Jul 6, 2005 05:33:13 AM

just does not cut it anymore in my life, much as i would love to have a simple apology fix everything. well i know better today and i suspected that it was the case when i was out there using. i sometimes wish i could simply sweep away my indiscretions with those three words, it would take the responsibility for my actions off of me and eliminate the need for daily inventories and step work.
so in other words, it would allow me to abdicate my responsibility for my recovery and let me become a ‘normie‘ for the first time in my life.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
well maybe not. taking responsibility for my recovery and my behavior is really not that onerous of a task, it just is one of those things that i NEED to do. i do know that when i act responsibly, live my program and make real amends by changing my life that i do feel better and i do develop a sense of self-respect that was sorely lacking when i got here. so i either return to what i was or work on becoming the person that i was always intended to be. the choice today is simple -- follow the narrow, winding path of recovery and allow what needs to happen, happen.
∞ 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 1

2) The superior man ordinarily considers the left hand the most honourable
place, but in time of war the right hand. Those sharp weapons are
instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior
man;--he uses them only on the compulsion of necessity. Calm and repose
are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable.
To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of
men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will
in the kingdom.