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Wed, Aug 2, 2006 07:45:56 AM
↔ i continue to apply the principle of honesty each time ↔
posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 07:45:56 AM
i am faced with the option of either living in fantasy or living life on its own terms.
and you know most days i prefer life on its own terms NOT! the fantasy world of how don sees the real world is more than attractive it its own right. after all, in that world i have no responsibility for my actions, no consequences for bad choices and everything that goes wrong can be blamed on someone or something else. and the best of all i get to take credit for everything that goes right! i get to lie, manipulate and control outcomes and best of all live life in the selfish, self-centered manner that addiction has taught me.
or i can honestly face life on its own terms and take responsibility for my decisions and accept whatever consequences may come about. :((
so what to do? well time to take a shower and fix some of the messes life has presented me today, after all i do not get to decide anything except how i will behave in the moment.
and you know most days i prefer life on its own terms NOT! the fantasy world of how don sees the real world is more than attractive it its own right. after all, in that world i have no responsibility for my actions, no consequences for bad choices and everything that goes wrong can be blamed on someone or something else. and the best of all i get to take credit for everything that goes right! i get to lie, manipulate and control outcomes and best of all live life in the selfish, self-centered manner that addiction has taught me.
or i can honestly face life on its own terms and take responsibility for my decisions and accept whatever consequences may come about. :((
so what to do? well time to take a shower and fix some of the messes life has presented me today, after all i do not get to decide anything except how i will behave in the moment.
∞ DT ∞
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
3) He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without
desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them
from presuming to act (on it). When there is this abstinence from
action, good order is universal.