Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA unity. ~ OA First Tradition I disagree with you. I don’t believe you take seriously the program, the commitment, the Steps. You irritate me. I want to guide you, […]
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Only Because There Is Ugliness
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty, only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. ~ Lao-tzu I’ve quipped for years Hell is floating around playing a harp all day, every day, forever […]
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We find we can save ourselves days of resentment and fear by resolving disputes as they arise, instead of allowing wounds to fester. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous A snide comment. A white lie, a commitment made […]
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Interposing excessive ostentation exacerbates utilization of temporal increments in non-utilitarian methodologies camouflaging dilatory tendencies and circumventing engaging in proximate advantageous commodities. Recapitulating frequently utilizing insignificant deviations creates a semblance of consequential progression and further dissimulates the ultimate discernment that the tendency to […]
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Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn […]
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