If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. ~ The Big Book and A Study Guide of […]
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Fooled Fool
I could tell myself I was educated, respected, affluent, successful, appreciated, living a meaningful life. I could tell myself those things — I could convince other people they were true, but I couldn’t persuade myself to believe. I knew from […]
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Frankl believed that at the spiritual level, the depressed man faces tension between who he actually is in relation to what he should be. Frankl refers to this as the gaping abyss. Source We admitted we were powerless over food, […]
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We ate to sate the fears, the anxieties, the angers, the disappointments. We ate to escape the pressures of our problems or the boredom of everyday life. We procrastinated, we hid, and we ate. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions […]
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(See http://eaglewingspress.com/wp/2016/meditating-on-meditation/) 4 The wicked are not so, But they are like chaff which the wind drives away. 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knows […]
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