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Sat, Sep 17, 2005 07:51:58 AM
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posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 07:51:58 AM
i find this reading to be interesting because it directly speaks to the issue of getting stuck in the inventory process. bouncing between steps four and five seems like a very masochistic thing to do in my opinion anyways. i have never participated in this cycle but i have done ‘box sets,’ steps four through seven to take care of a troubling problem or address an issue that has come up from my past that is larger that what the tenth, eleventh and twelfth step process can handle. i personally want to grow spiritually and emotionally. i personally want to look to today and plan for my future. i do believe that in order to do that i need to face my past, admit my defects, surrender them to GOD, and clean up the damage i have done in the past. i know i have never been given more than i can handle so i think that i will continue the normal progression of my current step cycle and learn how to thrive.
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Another Look!
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
2) Therefore the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of humility),
and manifests it to all the world. He is free from self- display,
and therefore he shines; from self-assertion, and therefore he is
distinguished; from self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged;
from self-complacency, and therefore he acquires superiority. It is
because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the
world is able to strive with him.