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Sat, Oct 25, 2014 10:08:12 AM


‰ my focus will be on principles, ‰
posted: Sat, Oct 25, 2014 10:08:12 AM

 

not on the personalities of other people.
so it is convention weekend, and personalities will be all around me. some i can stand, some i can tolerate, many i like, and some, well some i will have to apply the reading to this morning.
even more interesting is the amount of stuff i have to do, or better put want to do, before i get back to convention today. i want, i want, want, yes desire is an empty pit, that i feel at times consumes me. the biggest part of my desire lately has been wanting to be more, do more and fit in better, and the results, well let me just say, have not been stellar. so it leaves me wanting so much more.
back to the reading, i can be more and have all that i desire, if i choose to practice spiritual principles, in my affairs and place those principles ahead of, well you know the meme. as i approach my last week at my current position and pack up my belongings from two different locations, i am spinning in a world of change. one that has been so normally stable for so long, and when i spin i fall right back into judging the behavior of others, kind of like comfort junk food for my soul. so what i NEED to do this morning, is breathe, allow myself to perhaps be a bit late and just take things as they come. as of right now, i have accomplished everything i set out to do, so it is off into the real world to see what else i can get done today, and if my “to do” list does not get finished, just be okay with that as well.

∞ 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) There are also three in every ten whose aim is to live, but whose
movements tend to the land (or place) of death. And for what reason?
Because of their excessive endeavours to perpetuate life.