Stubbornness is ego-driven and fear-based. Perseverance is surrender to my Higher Power and is faith-based. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 1164).

The opposite of my character defects
is that quality I should have in its place.
Stubborn I can be. Saying the same thing,
insisting in the face of having tried and tried
to prove that for which there is no proof.
Because it’s the way I’ve reasoned this out,
the result I want it to bring, the logical thing…
if my mind can be considered logical
but I have no thought of such a ruse.
Yet that’s the fear showing. Back off.
Slow down. Trust the Power. Believe.

Perseverance will slip into the void
when stubbornness is exiled, is expunged.
Perseverance resembles it’s naughty cousin
in many ways, yet the fear is banished
and faith moved in. Perseverance feels right
falls right into the void, but like serenity
for terror, like recovery for worry,
the self remains but completed,
a recovering being ready to be
of service and to show others people,
other pairs within myself,
the basis for becoming whole.