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Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 08:48:23 AM

take two!
well i have not been the most apt at writing this as i sit here at work getting the problems roll through my headphones. so instead of doing the whole tap dance i will say this: addiction is a part of me. i do not refer to it as an third person or disease anymore. for me, addiction is just another filter through how i see the world, with that caveat in mind i can start down the same path, that my disease is talking to me and in my own voice.
addiction sucks. it takes what may only be a small affront and blows it up into a major injury. slow and discourteous drivers, they are hindering my progress, and the litany of evil could go on and on.
what i want to end up with, is that the only thing keeping me from becoming the modern version of Shiva, world destroyer, is a program of active recovery. the steps and the spiritual principles are the foil to addiction and for that i am grateful. anyhow the time has come to shower off and head on down to work. it has been once again one of those mornings, but i am grateful it is not my problem.

∞ 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) The Tao, considered as unchanging, has no name.