We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin Seeing through a glass darkly. […]
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Tests and Testimony
You can’t have a testimony without a test. ~ NPR interview about The Sisterhood The Big Book says the drunk’s past becomes the whole family’s asset — the main one, a treasure. Kneeling at the porcelain altar, drunken driving, brawls, […]
Continue reading »Forget Leading
The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself. ~ André Gide Behave confidently, speak with authority, take a stand by stepping out. Assert yourself, without seeking attention… Age-old truth, “A leader is best when people barely know […]
Continue reading »Stepping Out of Myself
With the twelve steps of recovery, I have stepped out of myself. ~ For Today (Kindle Location 232). Funny how one body can feel so huge but so small, so inadequate, so worthless. But still, no matter how restrictive it […]
Continue reading »In a Sandbox
Work right now is like playing in a sandbox. ~ Jeffrey Rollins Remember sandboxes? Have you played on the beach? I’ve seen intricate castles, clever creations of sand bound only by moisture. My sand, undisciplined, like a toddler’s drawing beside […]
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