Showing posts with label letting go. Show all posts
Showing posts with label letting go. Show all posts
Sunday, September 16, 2012

Needing To Know & Needing To Be Right

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"Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely." Alcoholics Anonymou...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

H.O.W. It Works

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"We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open-mindedness are the essent...
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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...
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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Friday, September 9, 2011

The 'Three Delusions'

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There are 'three delusions' - actually one illusion, and two delusions - specifically referenced in the 'Big Book' of Alcoho...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

As a Man Thinketh, So Is He

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Today's Thought from Hazelden: September 7, 2011 "As we think, so we become." "We can enrich our interior monologue. ...
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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, 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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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Letting Go of Anger and Emotional Disturbances

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"It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. If somebody hurt...
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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...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

On Attachment and Addiction: What Would Buddha Do?

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For some, it may be helpful to understand a little of what Buddhist teachings and an Eastern perspective have to say about addiction, as add...