Like driftwood tapping against the shore Nudged to the land by the pattern of waves So does my grief come over me Slapping me gently awake Gently the wood...
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Mar 1, 2005 3:08 pm
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Without work all life goes rotten. - Albert Camus Most would not think of work as a prize. That is often due to the concept we have of work. Work can be that...
You cannot devalue the body and value the soul - or value anything else. The isolation of the body sets it into direct conflict with everything else in...
To stop behaving in a certain way is to risk the unfamiliar. --Jan Lloyd Old patterns grip us so tightly! Even when the behavior pinches us painfully, we are...
For have you not perceived that imitations, whether of bodily gestures, tones of voice, or modes of thought, if they be persevered in from an early age, are...
Before the rain stops we hear a bird. Even under the heavy snow we see snowdrops and some new growth. --Shunryu Suzuki The signals that new growth is underway...
She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer and cries "it shall be done--sometime, somewhere." --Ophelia Guyon Browning Patience is a quality that frequently...
Sometimes two minuses make a plus. --Edith Shannon What appears to be a problem sometimes turns out to be a most beneficial circumstance. We live only in the...
Just for today I will not be afraid of anything. If my mind is clouded with nameless dreads, I will track them down and expose their unreality. I will remind...
Reflection for the Day The Program and my friends in the fellowship have provided me with a whole new set of tools for living. Even the slogans that once...
Words to Consider Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor. --Benjamin Franklin Not by Bread Alone The other day I was feeling off...
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Mar 17, 2005 9:27 am
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I wrote this after I realized that there was never really going to be a way that I could 'fix' or change the man in my life... that he was the only one that...
Prayer is neither black magic nor is it a form of demand note. Prayer is a relationship. --John Heuss A conversation requires two parts: talking and listening....
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. --Robert Frost Our home is a place of roots, a place where we can always turn in...
Keeping our motives honest Motives are important in dealing with other people. If we're frank with someone and that person gets upset, we might think he or she...
Daily, we determine our priorities. Priorities are not merely something we establish once a year, once a month, or even once a week. Our priorities are visible...
Love cures. It cures those who give it and it cures those who receive it. --Dr. Karl Menninger Love is no mystery, but its results are magical in many ways....
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side. --Hugh Prather Destiny has its own...
Nobody can change my thoughts but me. The first of the Twelve Steps asks us to admit we are powerless. Our first question might be, Why? Shouldn't we try to...
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Reflection for the Day When I sit quietly and compare my life today with the way it used to be, the difference is almost beyond belief. But things aren't...
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously ...
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. --J. B. Yeats It's a bitter pill to swallow, but our...
We're not here to lose our sense of humor. --Richie Berlin Being too serious is habit forming. However, many aspects of our lives are serious and need to be...
. . . concern should drive us into action and not into depression. --Karen Horney If a situation in our lives causes concern, be it mild disgruntlement or ...
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us. --Eric Hoffer It's tempting to blame others for our problems. Recovery asks us to...
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon What does it take to come to the place where we can exchange pride for humility?...
Recovering takes practice. No one learns how to play golf in a day, or masters a musical instrument in a week, or builds a relationship in a month. Neither...
