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 29, 2011

Relieve Me of the Bondage of Self

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" . . . (T)hinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence." -- Eckhart Tolle -- (" A New Earth: Awakenin...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Reflections on A.A.'s Early History: The Cental Role of Meditation

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In a 1958 lecture delivered to the New York City Medical Society on Alcoholism (contained in the "Three Talks to Medical Societies ...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Eckhart Tolle: On Resentments

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"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. And what is a grievance? The...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Step One Misperceptions and Confusion

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There are many sayings - some trite but true, others not - that one hears around the tables in Alcoholics Anonymous (and many of its sister ...
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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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...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Forgiveness and Making Amends 101

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I found the following passage in Richard Carlson's " Don't Sweat the Small Stuff . . . and its all small stuff ," a pithy ...
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