*migrated from tao_te_shen*
When I first created this journal it was to truly journalize what I saw and thought and to chronicle the advancement of my spirit through the learning process of finding peace and learning to be the kind of person we all should be.
As a result my other journal has been relegated to humor, movie stuff and 'updates'.
So, here's a real update. It's been a rough year, verytime I get my hands around one challenege, another appears. Sometimes it feels like a boxing match where I don't get to sit down between rounds. I just want to sit down, ya know?
This has led to irritibility and stress, which leads to me picking fights and fits of anger. My wife is a saint for putting up with me.
Today is better, much better in fact.
What do you think about when you are not focusing on your stresses and worries? Those things are the fields upon which you learn to discipline your mind and spirit.
We have to distinguish between discipline with a purpose and blind discipline. Discipline with a purpose is a means to an end and is healthy. Blind discipline does not have a purpose and becomes fanaticism. We must be disciplined, but not lose sight of our purpose.
The Purpose of our discipline is to learn to live in the now, to learn patience and to advance the spirit.
Peace.
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Speaking metaphorically, of course. It's a habit that's hard to give up. One puff of breath is never enough. You'll find you want to take another.
Mister Vimes
Only Human
- Samuel Vimes
- Norcross, GA, United States
- By his own account he was a skinny, balding, unshaven collection of bad habits marinated in alcohol, although these days he is better shaved and doesn't drink. Partly as a result of this latter fact, he is morose, cynical and ridiculously - and to his own embarassment - soft-hearted in certain circumstances. He is almost certainly one of Nature's policemen; it has been said of him that his soul burns to arrest the Creator of the universe for getting it wrong. He loathes kings, and hates undead and assassins. He is also unashamedly speciesist - he deeply dislikes trolls and dwarfs, but in an almost proprietyroial way, so that he has risked his life and badge to defend them merely so that he can continue to dislike them. He hates the city in the same way; it's his to hate.
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