Distance looms, impossible chasms, between where we are and where we want to be. Between who we are and who we want to be. It’s too far, I’ll never reach it. I might as well stay, save, sound, albeit miserable, […]
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If…/Then
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. ~ The Big Book and A Study Guide of […]
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…that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt […]
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And we’ll ride that horse when we get to it. ~ Mountain Man Tom Oar åçWe don’t own tomorrow, may never see it. We can’t change the past because it’s past. Plans may never happen. We are not cured of addiction. […]
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We are taught to differentiate between our wants (which are never satisfied) and our needs (which are always provided for). We cast off the burdens of the past and the anxieties of the future, as we begin to live in […]
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