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Sat, Jul 1, 2006 08:55:27 AM

∞ my complicated life can be made a lot less complicated... ∞
posted: Sat, Jul 1, 2006 08:55:27 AM

... if i concentrate on a few simple things:

sharing my experience, strength, and hope with others
regular meeting attendance
and practicing the principles of the program in our daily lives.

not a whole lot of stuff to do, really, but how in the hell am i supposed to fit those simple tasks into the fast-paced full life that i have been given since coming to the program? HMMMMMMM? after all there are only so many hours in a day. well since this reading is about the simple things i can do to uncomplicate my life i will jump off the too busy and not enough time tangent and get back on track, well sort of!
yes my life is full and yes i can make matters much more complicated than they need to be and yes even i get a bit stressed about how to do this life in recovery stuff (hopefully not too many of you fainted dead away with that little admission). the truth is the recipe for a simpler life that the reading talks about, does work when i allow it to work. the biggest thing in my life that mucks everything up the most is me and not the program of recovery that has given me this new life,. so i will keep in my mind what the reading is all about and try to live as simply as i can this fine saturday in july! and everyone have a safe holiday weekend!

∞ 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 2

4) It produces them and makes no claim to the possession of them;
it carries them through their processes and does not vaunt its ability
in doing so; it brings them to maturity and exercises no control over
them;--this is called its mysterious operation.