All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
restless mind is an impure mind; an impure mind is a restless mind. If we could keep the mind clean, it will find its calmness. ?Cleanliness is next to Godliness.? Why? Because only a clean mind can be calm, and only a calm mind can reveal true happiness.
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restless mind is an impure mind; an impure mind is a restless mind. If we could keep the mind clean, it will find its calmness. ?Cleanlines...
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"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else."
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"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way t...
"Who you really are is enough."
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"Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
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"Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working.
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be wi...
"Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are."
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"Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at...
The endless tears and fear of separation
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As I lay in bed, Tossing and turning about, You slept soundly next to me. Listening to your rhythmic breathing, I turned over and hugged you...
Confidence
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
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All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
life was about to begin - real life
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"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something...
man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper.
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The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he ...
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness t...
credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly
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The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and sp...
Meeting
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To Lady of the Rainbow and Gerhard Way
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be wi...
i wrote this for my husband when he reached his first year of sobority in alcoholics annonyomous and narcotics annonyomous
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I knew you could do it i knew you would not stray; I waited and i prayed that you would reach this day. You've changed your life complet...
Compassionate Alcoholics
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Compassion is never lacking an an alcoholic. It is his sensitivity to pain, his willingness to take on the burdens of others, consciously or...
The Alcoholics Curse
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Drinking all day of the week of the year Is an alky's terrible curse you should fear Then there's the week when they're not feel...
The Road Not Taken
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far ...
Good in all
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Good in all, In the satisfaction and aplomb of animals, In the annual return of the seasons, In the hilarity of youth; In the strength and f...
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace
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Reinhold Niebuhr (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the thing...
If there be a God let him show himself
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Although he didn't believe in God, although he believed only in the power of his own mind, he found himself begging God for help. "...
I am at peace in the midst of this divine-order day.
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Whether I find myself in a busy home or a thriving workplace, my environment may seem chaotic at times. If I feel stress building within me,...
Down at the very bottom of the social scale of AA society are the pariahs, the untouchables, and the outcasts
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Down at the very bottom of the social scale of AA society are the pariahs, the untouchables, and the outcasts, all known by one excoriating ...
It makes you know that God, Himself, is really charming, because the AA people reflect His mercy and His forgiveness.
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The AA people are what they are, and they were what they were, because they are sensitive, imaginative, possessed of a sense of humor and aw...
Want to Change the World? Own Up to Your Fear
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It's essential that anyone committed to a path of enlightened partnership is also committed to his or her own emotional healing and pu...
Preacher, I need you to pray for my hearing
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The Preacher says, "Anyone with needs to be prayed for, come forward to the front, at the altar!" Leroy gets in line, and when it&...
A straight look about some crooked feelings,We've all felt the giddy flutter of excitement when our new lover walks into the room.
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We've all felt the giddy flutter of excitement when our new lover walks into the room. Waited by the phone, changed our plans...But ar...
How I came to write a biography of Bill Wilson (2004)
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About five years ago Time Magazine asked me to write a profile of Wilson, the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous. I was amazed to find that a...
We talk to God—that is prayer; God talks to us—that is inspiration
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“… We talk to God—that is prayer; God talks to us—that is inspiration. We go apart to get still, that new life, new inspiration, new power o...
Top Ten Practices of Enlightened Partners
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1. Write down the purpose and desired results for your partnership. A partnership without a stated purpose and intended results is like a ...
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Bill Wilson and the Ouija Board,Bill W. Had Warts, Just Like the Rest of Us
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Ever since becoming enamored with A.A. in the early 90s (especially after really getting into AA circa 2001), I have thought of Bill W. as q...
larger than life figure, Wilson almost singlehandedly changed the prognosis for those suffering from alcoholism. But he was certainly no saint
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1989 movie about Bill W. and Dr. Bob (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Offering a fascinating look at Bill Wilson, one of Time Magazine's 1...
''Clearly my job henceforth was to Let Go and Let God. Alcoholics Anonymous was safe - even from me.''
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Bill's Wilsons Yankee temperament, lanky body, great gifts as a storyteller and childhood setbacks. A novelist and a journalist, she wr...
Bill W., A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Co-Founder Bill Wilson, Francis Hartigan, 2000, page 192.
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The impression that he was a ladies' man seems to have come from the way he sometimes behaved at AA gatherings. When Bill wasn't acc...
Bill took both women to an AA meeting. He sat between them and, all during the meeting, he had a hand on one leg of each of the women.
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As the AA office staff expanded in the 1940s, Bill seemed to take an active part in its recruitment efforts. One longtime AA member told me ...
One for the list buiders on the Costa,They had found God (as they understood Him), and as long as they stayed away from booze and aspirin, they were okay; they were in the clear. They weren't ashamed of sex; they gloried in it.
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Full disclosure: I grew up with a stepmom, Wynn, who had been fully prepared to marry Bill. He disengaged himself but put her "story&qu...
Amazed at the energy that comes out of you
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"Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." - William James 1842-1910, ...
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” -- Ralp...
Sophie had been welcomed into meeting
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We were meeting in the long sitting-room, and the floor-space was as usual filled by the children. The room was pretty full. Then Sophie'...
Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one against another; but praying one for another, and helping one another up with a tender hand.
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Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one again...
.' And when I heard it my heart did leap for joy."
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And when all my hopes in men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could I tell what to do, then, oh! Then I heard a vo...
All the modern religions that have examined the 12 steps have come to the conclusion that the steps do not conflict with their beliefs.
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Those who work with alcoholics and addicts have a distinct advantage over colleagues in other professions. The 12 steps offer a template tha...
Spirituality is the innermost relationship we have with ourselves and all else.
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Spirituality is the innermost relationship we have with ourselves and all else. Everyone has some form of spirituality. Religion is an organ...
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
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In his room alone, feeling totally powerless, he looked up toward heaven, and he cried out, "If there is a God, show me, give me some s...
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Concierto de Aranjuez Parte 2
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Some Symptoms of Codependency:
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Perfectionism Controlling Behavior Obsessive Caretaking Depression Illnesses due to Stress Not Wanting to Deal with Feelings Imagine, if you...
Under the Tuscan Sun,
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Sir Anthony Hopkins at Tuscan Sun Festival 2009 in Cortona, Italy. Français : Portrait d'Anthony Hopkins réalisé durant un festival en...
Ix Chel : Mayan Goddess of the moon
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Ix Chel : Mayan Goddess of the moon As an ancient fertility goddess, Ix-Chel was responsible for sending rain to nourish the crops. When f...
Dream Warrior greets Lady of the Rainbow
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Dream Warriors greets Lady of the Rainbow, to all our readers and contributors an introduction to the female side of the site Lady of the Ra...
Being a psychologist, she feared for her own sanity. She began talking with Bill about everything that was happening to her.
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In 1965, Helen Schucman, a 56-year-old woman, was working as a Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Ne...
"Cure" is a word that cannot be applied to any remedy the world accepts as beneficial.
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"Cure" is a word that cannot be applied to any remedy the world accepts as beneficial. What the world perceives as therapeutic i...
Ways to Know You Are Living Love
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How do you know if you are living the fullness of love in your life? Here is a short list of indicators that point to whether or not you...
“It is while trying to get everything straight in my head that I get confused.”
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“It is while trying to get everything straight in my head that I get confused.” Mary Virginia Micka
Doctor Emile Coueé made a giant step in helping people improve their lives when he discovered a method which transformed and accelerated the process of change.
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His method was so simple that it nobody wanted to believe in it, as is normal for all things new or revolutionary. However, over time his cl...
Simple affirmations versus visualizations.
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Doctor Emile Coueé made a giant step in helping people improve their lives when he discovered a method which transformed and accelerated the...
The ‘me’ we think we are, is not who we are. It’s a mistaken identity that we’ll call the ego.
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This world is really focused on getting and having. Think about it. As you read this article you most likely feel that you still have some u...
The Drunkard Disciple
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A Zen master had hundreds of disciples. They all prayed at the right time, except one, who was always drunk. The master was growing old. S...