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๐ŸŒน everything becomes ๐ŸŒน

Posted: Tue, Nov 3, 2020 07:46:38 AM

rosy in recovery! one of the biggest lies i hear when my peers are sharing is when they **share for the newcomer.** i have been down this road far too many times in the past, so with that, i think i will move on. work still sucks, ten to thirteen hours in front of my computer, listening to the same people saying the exact same things and thinking that they are being helpful. what i am getting is frustrated and ready to pull the plug and just walk away. what i NEED is a day without fires, so i can get a bit of balance in my work life and get rid of the angst i am feeling every time i open up my work laptop. right here and right now, i know that i have to accept what i have, do my best to make it run better and breathe.
this whole no matter what gig is trying from time to time. i certainly know that a little puff of poison is not going to make work go any better or make my life more balanced, serene and acceptable. i also know that when i allow myself to take on “their” stuff, no matter who “they” happen to be, i give up any power that i may have. my next move is to mark myself out of the office and get some miles in, before the world wakes up and the onslaught begins all over again. i can be okay with what i have and not be obsessive with what i do not have. i have the experience, strength and hope that my peers have given me, it is just time to tap into it. once again.

∞ 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) Who knows his manhood's strength,
Yet still his female feebleness maintains;
As to one channel flow the many drains,
All come to him, yea, all beneath the sky.
Thus he the constant excellence retains;
The simple child again, free from all stains.

Who knows how white attracts,
Yet always keeps himself within black's shade,
The pattern of humility displayed,
Displayed in view of all beneath the sky;
He in the unchanging excellence arrayed,
Endless return to man's first state has made.

Who knows how glory shines,
Yet loves disgrace, nor e'er for it is pale;
Behold his presence in a spacious vale,
To which men come from all beneath the sky.
The unchanging excellence completes its tale;
The simple infant man in him we hail.