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Thu, Feb 22, 2007 08:06:25 AM


¿ i may discover inconsistencies between my behavior and my values. i have been acting on my own will, ¿
posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 08:06:25 AM

 

not that of my HIGHER POWER, and the result has been dissonance in my life.
this reading was once again about the value of doing a daily tenth step inventory, it is ironic that i had a dream just before waking up about the tenth, eleventh and twelfth steps, i must have read ahead or had a memory or something. the dream itself is unimportant, what is important is the line i seem to have skipped over all the times i have read this particular entry -- the part about living in harmony with my values. well at least behaving in concordance with my values, and this was a conversation that was started with my sponsor during the course of my fifth step last week. the whole values gig was also a conversation i had with one of my sponsees just last night, so it is no wonder that this part of the reading jumped out and grabbed me by my short hairs!
the conversations consisted of among many things which values are truly mine, ones that i accept and which values i have had imposed upon me by culture, society, family, my peers in recovery and Madison avenue. sorting that list out has been a priority in my recovery, although i was unaware of it up to this point, and will continue to be a life long process, or at least one day at a time during my recovery. this whole line of thought is leading me to add a few other questions to my daily inventory. perhaps as early as tonight. what i am thinking is not only asking if i behaved according to my values, but where in the list that particular value comes from. it seems to me that behaving according to values that i readily accept is much easier than behaving according to values that have been imposed upon me. it is true that many of the values that have been imposed upon me from the first day i discovered right and wrong are good values and ones that i truly accept today. you know not murdering anyone, or not stealing. and some of those imposed values have been discarded across the course of my recovery, ones like ‘big boys don’t cry’, and ‘never let them see you down’ or even the ever present ‘you can never be rich or thin enough!’
so i see now that looking at the values i behave or do not behave according to, is a good thing. i may discover i have been doing better than i believe!

∞ DT ∞

 

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Another Look!

↔  my will -- God’s will ↔ 319 words ➥ Tuesday, February 22, 2005 by: donnot
α discovering the inconsistencies between my behavior and my values α 511 words ➥ Wednesday, February 22, 2006 by: donnot
∞ i have found that the more i live in harmony with the will of my HIGHER POWER, the greater the harmony in my life. ∞ 483 words ➥ Friday, February 22, 2008 by: donnot
∞ in many cases, i find that my actions have been in tune with the will … 524 words ➥ Sunday, February 22, 2009 by: donnot
∞ in my life, i have found, that the more i live in harmony ∞ 765 words ➥ Monday, February 22, 2010 by: donnot
« i continue to take personal inventory and when i am wrong promptly admit it » 398 words ➥ Tuesday, February 22, 2011 by: donnot
≈ when i am acting on my own will and not that ≈ 356 words ➥ Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by: donnot
⇑ i wish to live in harmony with my world. ⇑ 472 words ➥ Friday, February 22, 2013 by: donnot
∏ with a growing awareness of what the will of the POWER ∏ 424 words ➥ Saturday, February 22, 2014 by: donnot
¤ i am more likely to live in greater concord ¤ 697 words ➥ Sunday, February 22, 2015 by: donnot
↳ GOD*s will, ≀ 697 words ➥ Monday, February 22, 2016 by: donnot
✫ uncovering the inconsistencies ✬ 873 words ➥ Wednesday, February 22, 2017 by: donnot
🎜 in tune 🎝 799 words ➥ Thursday, February 22, 2018 by: donnot
💫 any dissonance 💫 571 words ➥ Friday, February 22, 2019 by: donnot
🔬 being in tune 🔬 583 words ➥ Saturday, February 22, 2020 by: donnot
📉 dissonance 📈 596 words ➥ Monday, February 22, 2021 by: donnot
🎥 measuring each 🎦 353 words ➥ Tuesday, February 22, 2022 by: donnot
🕊 living in 🕊 406 words ➥ Wednesday, February 22, 2023 by: donnot
🤫 building trust 🤔 406 words ➥ Thursday, February 22, 2024 by: donnot
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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 1

1) (Those who) possessed in highest degree the attributes (of the
Tao) did not (seek) to show them, and therefore they possessed them
(in fullest measure). (Those who) possessed in a lower degree those
attributes (sought how) not to lose them, and therefore they did not
possess them (in fullest measure).