You have two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only have one. ~ Confucius It surely feels as though when you reach the rooms of Recovery as though you’ve failed miserably, can’t even do what everybody can…just […]
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On the Pentacle of Life
I descended into a horrific food rock bottom, which finally convinced me that compulsive overeating is a progressive, dangerous, and slow-killing disease of mind, body, and spirit. My slide was halted only by seeking help from fellow OA members and […]
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Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. […]
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“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.) You get mad at someone and it can make you mighty uncomfortable especially if it’s […]
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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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