Even during the years of my active addiction, with the lying and bragging, it was not all that uncommon for someone to tell me to get real (not a bad working definition for humility, I think). After I started in […]
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Realistic Humility
Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin. […]
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“Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” — Step Seven ….This Step taught me humility, that state of being humble. Humble, according to the dictionary, is “the state of reflecting, expressing, or offering in a spirit of deference.”…. The deference—“respect […]
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For we had started to get perspective on ourselves, which is another way of saying that we were gaining in humility. ~ AA World Services Inc. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (p. 48). AA World Services, Inc. Kindle Edition. Getting a […]
Continue reading »I’m Okay – Perfect, Even!
Knowing that we are perfect as we are is knowledge that accompanies recovery. How much easier life is, how much more can be gained from each moment, when we meet each experience in the comfort of our real selves. ~ […]
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