Showing posts with label self-consciousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-consciousness. Show all posts
Saturday, November 17, 2012

Beyond the 'Big Book' . . . Beyond the 'Inner Dialogue' . . . Beyond the Confines of the 'Self'

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The 'Big Book' of Alcoholics Anonymous is, of course, our most valuable resource in early recovery, offering, as it does, a comple...
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Not Like Other People . . . But More So

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 " . . . (T)hinking without awareness ," writes spiritual teacher/author, Eckhart Tolle , " is the main dilemma of human ...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Escape From the Bondage of Self

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To be trapped in the prison-house of the smaller "self" - mired in the incessant stream of involuntary thinking that is the the hu...
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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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...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Know Thyself - Know Peace

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"While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is equally necessary that we extricate from an examination of our p...
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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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Love and the Eleventh Step Prayer

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"Be the captive of Love in order that you may be truly free - free from coldness and the worship of self. Thousands have passed who wer...
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...
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...
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...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

The Obsession of the Mind

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"We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink, as he may do for months or years, he reacts much like other men. We are equall...
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