It is a spiritual axiom that EVERY time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with US.
Step 10. 12 Steps and 12 Traditions.
Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?
If you're happy, would you please inform your face!
Sober not Somber
Service is Gratitude in action.
I complained because I had no shoes; until I met a man that had no feet
We don't see things as they are, we see them as WE are.
Anais Nin.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah.
Then he did something else that was to become an A.A. classic. It all went on a little card about golf-score size. The cover read: "Middleton Group #1. Rule #62." Once the card was unfolded, a single pungent sentence leaped to the eye: "Don't take yourself too damn seriously."
Tradition 4. 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
Bludgeoned and beaten into Humility by unremitting suffering.
'We saw we needn't always be bludgeoned and beaten into humility. It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering.'
Step 7. 12 Steps and 12 Traditions.
Anger, that occasional luxury of more balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely. These emotional "dry benders" often led straight to the bottle. Other kinds of disturbances--jealousy, envy, self-pity, or hurt pride--did the same thing.
Step 10. 12 Steps and 12 Traditions.
Happiness IS an inside job
Maybe good, maybe bad, who knows?
Taoist Parable.
Neither 'good' or 'bad', 'right' or 'wrong', It just IS.
Buddhist.
It's ALL alright.
(Revered Buddhist monk whose name I didn't write down when I heard this quote.)
EVERYTHING is teaching us.
Ajahn Chah
Yesterday’s history. Tomorrow’s a mystery, Today is a Gift, that's why they call it The Present
If the people in your life really DO treat you badly, whose responsibility is it?
If you miss the bus, it wasn't your bus
About Me
- An Irish Friend of Bill
- I have recovered from the disease of Alcoholism. I believe there is only one person really,.. everybody. And that peace of mind is everything. -So treat your neighbor as you would treat yourself, because your neighbor IS yourself. I think most of recovery is what I would call common sense, but that learning to be ordinary is a true gift very few people acquire. My ambition is to accept everything unflinchingly, with compassion, and therefore be intrinsically comfortable in my own skin, no matter what. I am comfortable being uncomfortable and am willing to go to any lengths to improve my life. I believe the Big Book was divinely inspired, and is extraordinarily powerful. Unfortunately AA's best kept secret a lot of the time. (In my opinion). I just try to do what works, no matter what it is.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as WE are.......... oh how exciting! I just made a decision to have a blissful day. Thank you
If you're happy, would you please inform your face?
My face was informed immediately after reading this sentence. :)
These are a great collection of quotes and messages. Spiritual medicine, and how my soul needs that.
Happy weekend, thank you for sharing something that is contagious and filled with Life!
Thank you ladies! I hope ya'll had a FABULOUS weekend!
Thanks for the quotes... we Al-Anons are on the same journey of getting over ourselves!!
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