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XI–Lust
I am going to work more on relying on my quick wittedness this week. I need to work more on trusting my own inner vision.
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9. Te: Virtue
The greatest virtue is like water;it is good to all things.It attains the most inaccessible placeswithout effort.Therefore it is like Tao,which has the virtue of adapting itself. Like the heart, it is virtuous by being deep,.Like speech, it is virtuous when it is quiet.like choice, it is virtuous in equanimity.Like a servant, it is trustworthy.It…
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Kontakia of Romanos, On the Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia I.
Long ago, the wily one cast his weapon and wounded Adam and killed him; Indeed, he completely destroyed the weak man. But now, even if he struck the bodies of the noble men, he did not destroy their spirits. He persuaded the first-created man to fall by words, but not even by deeds, the noble…
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22. Harmony
A hurricane will not outlast the morning, a heavy rain will not outlast the day.Who has the power to hurry things?If Heaven and Earth do not hurry them,what shall a person do? If one is in accord with Tao in all things,one is identified with Tao.Whosoever is identified with Tao, Tao receives with gladness. One…
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Mohawk Orange
Jack took this image at the Bristol Farms after Library Night–he currently has the peel on the bulletin board in his room.
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Sayings of the Desert Fathers
It was said about John the Little that one day he said to his older brother: I want to be free from care and not to work but to worship God without interruption. And he took his robe off, and went into the desert. After staying there one week, he returned to his brother. And…
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Six of Disks–Success
Make sure that others profit from your abundance. That is much more tricky then most people think. The chances to be seen as patronizing, to be taken as pompous–lacking in humility, etc, even of making fun of people are all very very high.
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11. Usefulness of Nothing
The thirty spokes of a carriage wheeluniting at the naveare made useful by the hole in the centerwhere nothing exists.Vessels of molded earthare useful by reason of their hollowness.Doors and windows are useful by being cut out.A house is useful because of its emptiness.Thus we use what is notto make use of what is.
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Cockroach
There was a large cockroach in the blue lake south swim club dressing room this morning. It was really huge–I scooped it up with an empty soap box and threw it away.
David Given Schwarm 