Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Step Three: "As a Man Thinketh"

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"The aphorism, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensi...
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Monday, June 6, 2011

Chasing Our Desires

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Chasing our desires is like blindly chasing dragons. Unexpectedly, they turn on us and we get burnt. Moreover, spiritually it is an impossi...
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...
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...
Friday, June 3, 2011

Character Defects: "The Seven Deadly Sins"

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As at best an agnostic by natural temperament, I was taken aback (as I suppose many others were) when I first read the characterization of m...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

"Frothy Emotional Appeal Seldom Suffices"

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How often do we sit in a meeting and hear it deteriorate into a testimonial of all the good things that have happened to people that have so...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Do Not Simply "Think! Think! Think!"

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After the description of the "real alcoholic" in the 'Big Book' of Alcoholics Anonymous , we read that, "the main pro...
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...