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โˆž accepting the challenges real life offers me โˆž

Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 08:32:17 AM

and the challenges today and over the course of the last couple of days has been how to put the spiritual principles of the fellowship that has given me this new life ahead of my personality and opinions. i am in a very good spot this morning regarding this situation, but i have yet to attend any of the sessions of the day, so i will see how this goes.
anyhow i miss being away from my home, my home group, the woman that i love, and my home and dog, and not necessarily in that order! i know i can get through this week and i feel all kinds of changes happening inside me as a result of this event. the first is the realization that i am basically a home body and not some kind of traveling dude. i hate to think that i have become some sort of domestic kind of husband or anything like that, but truthfully accepting that is certainly something i have to look at. the second change is that finally i feel that i have preparing for this event all my life and that i am exactly where i am supposed to be. and i finally feel a part of this process. although i still lack a bit of understanding of what is going on here, at least i can accept that this is an opportunity for growth and for me to become more and just be present with what is going on. well enough of musing about how terrible and wonderful things are internally today. i have work to do, people to see and places to be. i could go on and on, but right here right now i am ready to face and accept the challenges this day will bring!

∞ 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 multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying
a full banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seem listless
and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of their presence.
I am like an infant which has not yet smiled. I look dejected and
forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. The multitude of men all have
enough and to spare. I alone seem to have lost everything. My mind
is that of a stupid man; I am in a state of chaos. Ordinary men look
bright and intelligent, while I alone seem to be benighted. They look
full of discrimination, while I alone am dull and confused. I seem
to be carried about as on the sea, drifting as if I had nowhere to
rest. All men have their spheres of action, while I alone seem dull
and incapable, like a rude borderer. (Thus) I alone am different from
other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).