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Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2005 05:45:04 AM

although i have read this reading at least eight times before today, it is amazing that i missed the fact that i can use the spiritual principles of the twelve steps as a decision-making process. it is always a eye-opening experience when i find some new revelation in the literature, and this morning i feel awake and a bit on the dumb side. here i am with an educated and intelligent person seeing something through a new set of eyes and dealing with the repercussions throughout my psyche. but i guess that happens to all of us from time to time.
so now i sit here pondering what this may mean for me and my life. i have been stuck on hold for over a year now, waiting for someone, something or some set of circumstances to make some major decisions on how to proceed forward with my life. now i see that i always had the tools and the process in front of me to do what i did not want to. my life needs to move forward from the comfortable rut i have dug and now is the time to make those decisions that will propel me into the mainstream of life again, instead of watching from the sidelines.
has anything really changed? not really, just my perception of how to proceed, let go and see what happens.
∞ 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

1) Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and
great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same
kind).