Showing posts with label consciousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consciousness. Show all posts
Saturday, September 15, 2012

A Spiritual Way of Life

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In the attached video, A.A. pioneer, Chuck C. (author of " A New Pair of Glasses ") shares his insights into living "A Spiri...
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Sunday, September 9, 2012

Suffering and Spiritual Awakening

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"As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question. That basic ingredient of al...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

". . . Any Lengths"

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"His craving for alcohol was the equivalent on a low level of the spiritual thirst of our being for wholeness, in medieval terms: uni...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Deep Down Within Us

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" . . (D)eep down within every man, woman, and child is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by wo...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

We Atheists

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On the night of November 11, 1989, I experienced what many alcoholic addicts describe as "a moment of clarity." Alcohol and drugs ...
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Sunday, November 13, 2011

On Ego as One's Sense of Self

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ego / n. ( pl . -os) 1 Metaphysics a conscious thinking subject. 2 Psychology the part of the mind that reacts to reality and has a sen...
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Friday, November 4, 2011

Ideas, Emotions and Egoic Attitudes

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In the second chapter of the 'Big Book' of Alcoholic Anonymous we read that "the main problem of the alcoholic centers in the ...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Three Delusions and a Few Conclusions

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" (T)he main problem of the alcoholic ," we read in the 'Big Book,' " centers in the mind ." Why is this apparen...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Higher Consciousness and a New State of Being

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"When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and beli...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Anger: A "Dubious Luxury"

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"If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of norma...
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

A New State of Consciousness and Being

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". . . (T)he disciplining of the will must have as its accompaniment a no less thorough disciplining of the consciousness. There has to...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

"We Were Reborn"

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"This is the how and why of it. First of all we had to quit playing God. It didn't work. Next, we decided that hereafter in this dr...
Friday, October 7, 2011

The Small Self

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"It is our ignorance that makes us think that our self, as self, is real, that it has complete meaning in itself. When we take that wro...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The Main Problem of the Alcoholic Centers in the Mind

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"All (types of alcoholics) . . . have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving. T...
Sunday, October 2, 2011

No Longer Running the Show

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"We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be don...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Tao of Selflessness

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In the Eleventh Step Prayer , we affirm that: "(I)t is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It i...