deference |ˈdefərəns| noun humble submission and respect: he addressed her with the deference due to age. God is due reverence, honor, respect. But those things seem to put me at par, on the same level as God. That’s not true. […]
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Surrender, then, is an unconscious event. It is not willed by the individual. It can occur only when one becomes involved with one’s unconscious mind in a set of circumstances which signal the undeniable need for an external greater power. […]
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So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly. I find more bitter than death the woman who […]
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Stubbornness is ego-driven and fear-based. Perseverance is surrender to my Higher Power and is faith-based. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 1164). The opposite of my character defects is that quality I should have in its place. Stubborn I can […]
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Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA unity. ~ Tradition 1, Overeaters Anonymous We are a group. We are insane people. We are powerless, our lives unmanageable. We come in usually with no self-respect, believing ourselves […]
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