Stubbornness is ego-driven and fear-based. Perseverance is surrender to my Higher Power and is faith-based. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 1164). Perseverance – steadfastness, sure, dependable, reliable, constant, unwavering. Wouldn’t unwavering be closer to stubbornness, not perseverance? Certainly there’s kinship […]
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Fear Not
When fear enters in, I remind myself that God did not give me the spirit of fear. In my quiet time I hear, “Fear not!” ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 3760-3761). Paul told his protege Timothy, “For God has […]
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The fear of fat.You might believe the phobia to be the exclusive purview of the obese, but you would be wrong. It torments the anorexic, the exercise bulimic, the person addicted to laxatives, even those suffering from drunkorexia. Fear is […]
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After twenty-four years in the program, I began to see that self-hatred was my first addiction. ~ Overeaters Anonymous, Third Edition (Kindle Locations 869-870). Some of us were chubby toddlers, never healthy body weights, some ideal weight into our twenties then […]
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For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia—peace and freedom from fear—and aponia—the absence of pain—and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. ~ Wikipedia Resolutions are experiments in absurdity for […]
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