Monday, July 28, 2008

"Self-Examination, Meditation and Prayer" - Using Basic Recovery Tools: Part III

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Bill W. wrote the series of essays that would be published as " The Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions " when he was fifteen ye...
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The "Serenity Prayer" - Using Basic Recovery Tools: Part II

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For me, as for most others I suspect, there are three key concepts that stand out in the "Serenity Prayer" - serenity , courage ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Evening Contemplation for Spiritual Awakening

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"Each worldly person, moralist, spiritual aspirant and yogi - like a devotee - should every night before retiring ask his intuition whe...
Monday, June 9, 2008

Morning Contemplation for Spiritual Awakening

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Marcus Aurelius, one of the founding fathers of Neo-Platonism, a philosophical school that would have a profound impact on the early Christ...
Saturday, June 7, 2008

A Spiritual Awakening from the Addiction of Consumer Culture?

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Maybe its time for a global intervention, suggests Charles Shaw in a powerful article in The Huffington Post which examines whether Western...
Monday, June 2, 2008

Fear and Desire Create the "Bondage of Self"

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In A.A.'s Third Step Prayer, there is a line where the alcoholic addict asks whatever G_d he or she has an understanding of to, "Re...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Spiritual Awakening: Filling the "Vacuum of the Soul"

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Re-reading the March 1971 "A.A. Grapevine" which commemorates the life and passing of Bill Wilson, the man who first formulated th...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Tale of a "Double-Minded Man"

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I've always been a reader. I got the habit hard when I was a kid, and its stayed with me. I pretty much always read for a little while...