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Thu, Apr 18, 2019 07:37:49 AM
💀 my inability 💀
posted: Thu, Apr 18, 2019 07:37:49 AM
today, two of my peers are celebrating clean time anniversaries and neither one of them were “struck clean.”
Brian T,
THREE (3) years clean!
I am glad you found your way back through the haze.
Thank you for making my life richer.
Jim E,
EIGHT (8) years clean!
You are a miracle, my friend. I am grateful that you found the means to build your new life.
∞ DT ∞
While the author is a member of a 12 Step recovery fellowship, these writings are not intended to endorse or express the published wisdom of any fellowship.
These writings are not meant to be socially or politically correct, and if you take issue with any opinions expressed, please seek the guidance of someone wiser than me.
Another Look!
↔ seeing through the seventh step ↔ 206 words ➥ Monday, April 18, 2005 by: donnot∞ looking through the seventh , i begin to see others in a less critical way ∞ 438 words ➥ Tuesday, April 18, 2006 by: donnot
∞ i begin evaluating others as i have learned to evaluate myself, ∞ 403 words ➥ Wednesday, April 18, 2007 by: donnot
μ admitting my inability to perfect myself, i wait. μ 416 words ➥ Friday, April 18, 2008 by: donnot
∞ once i am entirely ready to have my character defects removed, i am entirely ready! ∞ 685 words ➥ Saturday, April 18, 2009 by: donnot
' it is truly humbling to realize that not only am i powerless over addiction … 922 words ➥ Sunday, April 18, 2010 by: donnot
† i humbly asked the POWER THAT FUELS MY RECOVERY † 520 words ➥ Monday, April 18, 2011 by: donnot
¨ today i WILL ask the POWER that fuels my recovery to ¨ 521 words ➥ Wednesday, April 18, 2012 by: donnot
√ by admitting my inability to perfect myself, i can surrender my shortcomings √ 683 words ➥ Thursday, April 18, 2013 by: donnot
♥ i DID not experience a sudden, total relief from my defects ♥ 418 words ➥ Friday, April 18, 2014 by: donnot
∑ i understand ∑ 579 words ➥ Saturday, April 18, 2015 by: donnot
♔ as seen through ♚ 590 words ➥ Monday, April 18, 2016 by: donnot
❝ a subtle shift ❞ 334 words ➥ Tuesday, April 18, 2017 by: donnot
🏵 struggling to 🏶 573 words ➥ Wednesday, April 18, 2018 by: donnot
🌄 empathy born of humility 🌄 414 words ➥ Saturday, April 18, 2020 by: donnot
😳 struggling 😖 219 words ➥ Sunday, April 18, 2021 by: donnot
🔎 to see 🔍 419 words ➥ Monday, April 18, 2022 by: donnot
💡 searching 🧠 482 words ➥ Tuesday, April 18, 2023 by: donnot
🤔 living spiritually 🤨 462 words ➥ Thursday, April 18, 2024 by: donnot
☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
The grandest forms of active force
From Tao come, their only source.
Who can of Tao the nature tell?
Our sight it flies, our touch as well.
Eluding sight, eluding touch,
The forms of things all in it crouch;
Eluding touch, eluding sight,
There are their semblances, all right.
Profound it is, dark and obscure;
Things' essences all there endure.
Those essences the truth enfold
Of what, when seen, shall then be told.
Now it is so; 'twas so of old.
Its name--what passes not away;
So, in their beautiful array,
Things form and never know decay.
How know I that it is so with all the beauties of existing things?
By this (nature of the Tao).