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๐Ÿ‘Ž in my personal recovery, ๐Ÿ‘

Posted: Fri, Nov 21, 2025 08:35:02 AM

i continue to work on developing a guiding conscience in my own decision making that helps me decipher what is healthy for me and what is not. applying that same principle to my home group and serving the fellowship, has not been the straight line of development that it has been in my personal life. my motives were once tied to my ego and what i thought i “knew” was most of the time what i desired and did not reflect reality. more than once, even when i was right, i had to go back and admit that what i said had merit, how i said it lacked tact, kindness and respect. i am grateful that for the most part, those days are over. learning to discern the difference between desire and ego and what is good for the fellowship, has been a steep and very crooked path, and one that i am still embarked upon.
this morning, as i prepare to face the world of smoke filled rooms and brothers of the leaf, i actually feel like this just may be my life and be able to live it without regrets. it is true i need about double the money i am currently making and perhaps will need another part-time job, but right now, i am good to go until the end of the year. i am also getting excited about writing a story using images generated by AI. that little obsession is now turning into a lesson on how to, tune prompts and get what i desired out of the models with which i am pounding on. all in all, i do not feel as io=if i amhurting anyone or myself and my time getting to know AI, may not pay off this afternoon, but who knows…

∞ 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) 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.