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Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 05:18:45 AM

this has always been a big issue for me. in active addiction it was how much of the truth can i tell and get away with it, since i was always a poor flat-out liar.
in recovery, the turn has been how much of what i am feeling can i really show. for me it was more important to look good rather than let on i was not feeling good. now i am becoming more honest in how i deal with my peers and those with whom i share my life. i believe that before now, although i would try in vain to disguise my inner self, they saw through the facade and just were polite or too itimidated by me to say anything.
anyhow, today,honestly i feel good and maybe i actually look good too!
-- 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

2) The superior man ordinarily considers the left hand the most honourable
place, but in time of war the right hand. Those sharp weapons are
instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior
man;--he uses them only on the compulsion of necessity. Calm and repose
are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable.
To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of
men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will
in the kingdom.