Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts
Friday, August 31, 2012

Fearlessness Required

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"Notice that the word "fear" is bracketed alongside the difficulties (in our 4th Step inventory ). . . . This short word so...
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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, October 14, 2011

Overcoming Our Fears and Desires

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"Since most of us are born with an abundance of natural desires, it isn't strange that we often let these far exceed their intended...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Humility, Suffering and Peace of Mind

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"(W)e are building an arch through which we can walk a free man at last. Is our work solid so far? Are the stones properly in place? Ha...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Ego, Humility and Grace

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"By this time in all probability we have gained some measure of release from our more devastating handicaps. We enjoy moments in which ...
Friday, July 29, 2011

The Birth of a Spiritual Experience

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Regarding the taking of Step Five, the author of the 'Big Book' of Alcoholics Anonymous suggests that it is at this point in our re...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Power, Coercion and Acceptance

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In yet another paradox, the first half of Step One - the admittance that we are alcoholic - is perhaps the easiest one to take, yet admittin...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Fear, Desire, and Instincts Run Wild

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"Creation gave us instincts for a purpose. Without them we wouldn't be complete human beings. If men and women didn't exert the...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Dealing with Fear: "Face Everything and Avoid Nothing"

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"(Fear) was an evil, corroding thread; the fabric or our existence was shot through with it." -- Alcoholics Anonymous , p. 67 -- ...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Fear and Fearlessness

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" Fearlessness is the first requirement of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral." -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Over and over in the ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Fear, Desire and Defects of Character

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In doing our Fourth Step, we are instructed to review our fears "thoroughly," to write them down on paper, even where there is no ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Worry and Fear vs. Serenity and Acceptance

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"(A)cceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Perils of 'White-Knuckling' Sobriety

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The danger with "white-knuckling it" in recovery - whether this consists of perpetually putting off working the 12 Steps (typicall...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

Step Four: 'The Tao of Fear'

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When we put pen to paper and begin to take a moral inventory of ourselves, we read in the 'Big Book' of Alcoholics Anonymous that i...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Ego, Fear and the Smaller "Self"

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"More than most people," we read, "the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor. To the outer world he presen...