Showing posts with label Step 4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Step 4. Show all posts
Monday, April 9, 2012

Fear and Expectations

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Fear - primarily fear that we will lose something we have, or will fail to get something we desire - is "the chief activator" of a...
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Friday, September 30, 2011

Trusting Infinite God vs. Our Finite Selves

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"Courage is the first requirement of spirituality. A coward can never be moral." -- Mahatma Gandhi -- In the discussion on the F...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Eckhart Tolle: On Resentments

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"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. And what is a grievance? The...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Examining the "Harms" Caused to Others

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"We might next ask ourselves what we mean when we say that we have "harmed" other people. What kinds of "harm" do p...
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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Reducing Ego at Depth through Accurate Self-Survey

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Why the necessity of taking both an initial and a continuing moral inventory ? Principally, it is because we manufacture our own troubles a...
Monday, July 18, 2011

The Ego and Its Resentments: Anger, Anguish and Angst

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"It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit th...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

On Overcoming Remorse and Self-Loathing

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In the 'Big Book' of Alcoholics Anonymous, one of the most prominent but least discussed aspects of the alcoholic addict's dilem...
Friday, June 3, 2011

Character Defects: "The Seven Deadly Sins"

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As at best an agnostic by natural temperament, I was taken aback (as I suppose many others were) when I first read the characterization of m...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

On Humility and Ego

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" The average man is not humble; he may appear to be so, but inwardly he sets up mental resistance and barriers, and builds walls of pr...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

On Desire, Fear and the Activation of Our Character Defects

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In Step Four, we see how the word "fear" occurs again and again in the third column of our resentments list. Then, again, on the ...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Resentment: Digging One's Own Grave One 'Old Idea' at a Time

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Resentment   (or 're- sentiment ') is to experience all over again the feelings of anger  - towards someone, something, or some situ...