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๐ŸŽ‰ something special ๐ŸŽ‰

Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2022 09:03:03 AM

when read this, my mind went to an old Saturday Night Live character portrayed by Dana Carvey, specifically the Church Lady. considering the decades i spent trying to be something special, this really rings true today, when i know, that just as i am, i am special and have something to contribute. enough of being silly this morning, what came up was some unsavory bits of bad behavior over the past few days, braggadocio and know-it-allism.
as i drove through to work, i could see that i am starting to believe my hype, that after over twenty-four years clean, i may actually deserve to be a little conceited and entitled. i can see that i am committing a grave and possibly deadly error in judgement here and i certainly need to return to the humble light of just for today i am clean. the facts are quite simply that life without using has become full of activity, joy and gift galore. my “forgetter” is working over time on what i HAD to do to get here. 😜 i know that i suffered for a long time, even before my first get high. i never got to really enjoy being a kid, because i believed something that was not. today, even though i am technically a senior citizen, i feel as if i am still thirty-something and cannot understand who that old man that stares back at me when i am shaving, really is. i am more fit of mind, body and spirit than i have ever been and regret the years that i lost to using and to living a lie. chances are that, when all is said and done in a few weeks, i will be able to find that place of serene humility once again. all i have to do, is let go of who the fVck i think i am and be exactly who i have come to be, just for today.

∞ 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) Music and dainties will make the passing guest stop (for a time).
But though the Tao as it comes from the mouth, seems insipid and has
no flavour, though it seems not worth being looked at or listened
to, the use of it is inexhaustible.