So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly. I find more bitter than death the woman who […]
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The Basis
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 […]
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Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA unity. ~ Tradition 1, Overeaters Anonymous We are a group. We are insane people. We are powerless, our lives unmanageable. We come in usually with no self-respect, believing ourselves […]
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Disobedience is as much a proof of authority as obedience. You cannot be a rebel without acknowledging a government. You cannot be a heretic unless you are first a believer. ~ Tiffany Reisz It’s not so hard, coming to believe […]
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Adrift in a morass of regrets I stare at the ocean liner offering to lift me to luxury. Restrained by fear, chained by inertia, petrified by panic. I’m going nowhere but surely that can’t be my fault.
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