Showing posts with label humility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humility. Show all posts
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, September 19, 2011

Seeking Humility

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"Out of suffering may come the transmutation of values, even the transfiguration of character. But these developments are possible only...
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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...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

The 'Actor' and the New 'Director'

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"If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished, the show would be great. Everybody, including himself, ...
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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 ...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Spiritual Pride and the Quality, Rather than Quantity, of Faith

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"Now let's take the guy full of faith, but still reeking of alcohol. He believes he is devout. His spiritual observance is scrupulo...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Going Broke on Spiritual Pride

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Bill W. was the recipient of a sudden and tremendous spiritual awakening. It is attested to by his work with Dr. Bob and the millions of ind...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Step Six: Aiming at Perfection

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"We aim at perfection," my sponsor often says, "knowing that we are going to fall short." This, of course, is the gist o...
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...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Two Approaches to Anonymity

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A controversial article in The New York Times and a thoughtful response on the Huffington Post highlight perhaps the most controversial is...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

From Self-Centered Resentment to a Quiet Humility

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The basic problem of the alcoholic addict is " selfishness ," or " self-centeredness " - our basic egocentric, self-cons...
Friday, April 22, 2011

From "Grave Mental and Emotional Disorders" to "Emotional Sobriety"

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One of Bill W.'s most self-revelatory writings, a letter he wrote to a close friend who also suffered from bouts of depression, was publ...
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Friday, April 1, 2011

The "Still Suffering" Alcoholic

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I did not attend meetings or belong to A.A. for nearly five years during my "recovery." Hence I picked up a five-year medallion an...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

"Humility Consists in Having a Perfectly Open Mind"

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"Honesty" = We don't have to remember the "stories" we've told. "Humility" = We don't have to rem...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Steps One and Three: Honesty and Humility

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We often do not talk about humility until we get to Step 7 - "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.) Yet,  I have learned throu...