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๐Ÿ‘ underplaying ๐Ÿ‘Ž

Posted: Sat, Jul 9, 2022 12:56:30 AM

the changes that have been manifest in my life, since i accepted this manner of living, is something i struggle with, from time to time. living as i did, in the dark corners of what i was, never accepting i was good enough and walking a path of deception, it is hard for me to accept that i have changed at all. in fact, what i see is what i cannot or will not accomplish as the reality of my life, instead of looking at my sucesses. i tell myself that is just the cynic within and i will “always” be that way, so i might as well go with the flow and just be that sort of “negative nellie” type of person, especially when i look at myself.
this morning, what came screaming up from the depths was resistence to beliveing wht i once accepted as the “TRUTH.” it is true that i have been a self-absorbed shit from time to time on vacation, BUT that does not meaan that i AM a self-absorbed shit. it would be so easy to slide into a pit of self-deprecation. the reading and what i heard this morning is a foil against that sort of behavior, i may not be perfect, but i am recovering and doing a helluva lot better than i might be, because i know how to live a program of recovery and have the desire to do so.

∞ 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

The grandest forms of active force
From Tao come, their only source.
Who can of Tao the nature tell?
Our sight it flies, our touch as well.
Eluding sight, eluding touch,
The forms of things all in it crouch;
Eluding touch, eluding sight,
There are their semblances, all right.
Profound it is, dark and obscure;
Things' essences all there endure.
Those essences the truth enfold
Of what, when seen, shall then be told.
Now it is so; 'twas so of old.
Its name--what passes not away;
So, in their beautiful array,
Things form and never know decay.

How know I that it is so with all the beauties of existing things?
By this (nature of the Tao).