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Tue, Feb 15, 2022 08:30:09 AM


🛏 my sleeping spirit 🚿
posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2022 08:30:09 AM

 

was not something i was aware of, way back when. in fact, if one had asked, i would have scoffed at the idea that any part of me was sleeping and unaware of what was going on around me. from the perspective of where i am now, it is quite easy to see what was happening way back when and to be definitive when i say that i was quite clueless about what was really going on, especially when it came to me and my spiritual path. agnosticism is not a spiritual path. for me, it was the coward's way out. by not talking a stand and creating a belief structure based on that lack of commitment to anything, i can see that by believing nothing at all, i fell for everything that came down the pike. now that i am “woke” in all sorts of sense of that word, i see the world in a little bit different light.
what popped off the stack this morning, was the interview i have today and wondering if my recruiter fed me the answers to the puzzle my potential employer is going to present to me. i have been studying my ass off, and feel much more comfortable with data structures, and control loop features of the language i will need to demonstrate this afternoon. with that in m ind and a trip to see my sponsor tomorrow, my plan is to hang at the house and work on prepping my workspace and self for what may come. whether or not i already have the answers, i know i have the knowledge to perform at a high level, i will just need to refresh myself, write my “recipes” for success and let go.
looking at the rest of my day and my week, i know i have to be present for whatever is coming and if an employer wants to interview me tomorrow, i will need to be flexible enough to put off my trip to CO Springs, until Friday. i also realize that if i do not get out and about soon, i will not get everything done, i need to get done, before my interview. with that in mind, as i consider what it means to have a spiritual awakening, i can see that for me, i leave a smaller footprint on the lives of those around me. i no longer feel the need to be in control of everyone and everything that comprises my life today. the personal power that i do have, as limited as it may be., is better spent on making a better me, rather than altering the world to make it better for me. the time to exercise that power as well as my physical self, is upon me. i will walk out into the world, fully awake and ready to be a part of this life i have been gifted, just for today.

∞ 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

1) The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps;
the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed;
the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful closer needs no
bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible;
the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what
he has bound will be impossible. In the same way the sage is always
skilful at saving men, and so he does not cast away any man; he is
always skilful at saving things, and so he does not cast away anything.
This is called 'Hiding the light of his procedure.'