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Sun, Jun 6, 2021 07:55:38 AM


🙃 what i 🤨
posted: Sun, Jun 6, 2021 07:55:38 AM

 

did not remember or believe was worth looking at, on one of my previous trips through the steps. all of sudden has consumed my life and tipped my world upside down. i am grateful that my sponse encourages me to keep working step cycles, as i would have never got to where i am today, without four or five trips through them. exactly where am i at? Santa Fe New Mexico, getting ready to return home. emotionally i am more balanced than i have been in the past few months. physically, i am healing from my bouts of over-training and spiritually, i feel connected to a program of recovery, even though it has been a week since i was at a meeting.

Rebecca Q.
Congrats on TWELVE (12) years clean.

as i deal with thee fallout of this round of steps, i wonder how it was i was incapable of seeing how much of a driving force that one event was in my life. i guess, as the reading indicates, i was not ready for that part of my truth to be revealed and i “needed” time and steps to arrive where i am today. with that on my mind, it is time to get a little bit of a walk in, and start the process of going home and returning to my so-called “real life.”

∞ DT ∞

 

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☯ 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

The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on
the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends.
Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness,
that their use depends. The door and windows are cut out (from the
walls) to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space (within),
that its use depends. Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves
for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.