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Sun, Jul 9, 2023 03:31:42 PM
😉 courage 😏
posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2023 03:31:42 PM
to walk my path, which today was nine miles long and thirty-four hundred feet of vertical elevation. although i am more than sure that reading was not talking my physical journey today, it is sort of applicable, if i read it quite literally. moving out of the literal reading and into what i heard as i sat and listened this morning and shut down the noise about what i was going to do today and how i was going to make my deadline of 6:15 AM to catch my ride to climb St Vrain Mountain, i got a glimpse of where my spiritual journey has brought me and perhaps where it may be taking me.
i have quite the life today, full of desires, wants and needs. i have a job that is furthering my career, friends who like even though i do not have lots of dough. a loving spouse who has stuck through our relationship, even though i less than honest about a shit ton of stuff. i have a home and i have the resources to buy my ticket to Africa this afternoon. i had none of this when i got clean and actually gave up any hope of attaining anything like the life i have today, unless of course i won the POWERBALL. through the work i have done, after coming to recovery i have found the courage to defuse my secret shame, find a place in the world that is equal to those around me and more than a little self-worth and self-respect. with the spiritual principles, especially courage and humility, i now am quite capable of living a life that is centered in active recovery and provides for all my needs, just for today.
i have quite the life today, full of desires, wants and needs. i have a job that is furthering my career, friends who like even though i do not have lots of dough. a loving spouse who has stuck through our relationship, even though i less than honest about a shit ton of stuff. i have a home and i have the resources to buy my ticket to Africa this afternoon. i had none of this when i got clean and actually gave up any hope of attaining anything like the life i have today, unless of course i won the POWERBALL. through the work i have done, after coming to recovery i have found the courage to defuse my secret shame, find a place in the world that is equal to those around me and more than a little self-worth and self-respect. with the spiritual principles, especially courage and humility, i now am quite capable of living a life that is centered in active recovery and provides for all my needs, just for today.
∞ DT ∞
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These writings are not meant to be socially or politically correct, and if you take issue with any opinions expressed, please seek the guidance of someone wiser than me.
Another Look!
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
2) The report of that fulfilment is the regular, unchanging rule.
To know that unchanging rule is to be intelligent; not to know it
leads to wild movements and evil issues. The knowledge of that unchanging
rule produces a (grand) capacity and forbearance, and that capacity
and forbearance lead to a community (of feeling with all things).
From this community of feeling comes a kingliness of character; and
he who is king-like goes on to be heaven-like. In that likeness to
heaven he possesses the Tao. Possessed of the Tao, he endures long;
and to the end of his bodily life, is exempt from all danger of decay.