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๐Ÿ’€ through step work, ๐Ÿ’ซ

Posted: Sat, Jul 12, 2025 09:11:20 AM

i reveal my self-centered tendencies and find strategies to address them. this week has been an interesting one for me. one day i do everything correctly, take responsibility and move forward and the next i am complete mess that cannot do anything correctly, no matter how much effort i put into the task at hand. it has been one helluva a ride that ended up this morning with me sleeping in and foregoing my morning workout. i was not powerless over that decision, as i did roll over at five fifteen and decide to close my eyes, instead of rising to meet the world. certainly no victim in this situation and as i look at the past week, what went well and what did not, i see there are certainly no victims in any of the decisions i made, even though one of them blew everything up.
the reading spoke of a “fine line” between control and responsibility and i am not sure that at this point in my recovery journey, that line is as faint as some folks make it out to be. i almost always know what i am responsible for and take action, with no expectations of outcomes. maybe not almost always, but certainly more time than not. i see where i have power and where i do not and as i get good and ready to work my THIRD STEP, i see where i am headed, which right here and right now, is over to Boulder to participate in my home group and hang with a few of my friends and peers.

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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 2

2) Let the kingdom be governed according to the Tao, and the manes
of the departed will not manifest their spiritual energy. It is not
that those manes have not that spiritual energy, but it will not be
employed to hurt men. It is not that it could not hurt men, but neither
does the ruling sage hurt them.