Alcoholism Support Group

Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.

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Taradactyl 10/30/2009

"I beg you ... to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.

Live the questions now.

Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

(Rainer Maria Rilke)

This brought me a wonderful peace when I had paralyzed my progress by obsessing over solving the why behind everything. Sometimes you just have to stand by and life's answers reveal themselves in their own time.

Love to all!

donttread 10/30/2009

I used to analyse everything until I killed all possible joy. Now I can often just vaccept .

deleted_user 10/31/2009

yuppers i used to obsess over having to have an answer NOW and now when i find myself wanting to do that i go to a meeting and nine out of ten times THE ANSWER IS THERE.... someone will bring up just what i am needing an answer to. i love it......

deleted_user 10/31/2009

'Ah, all things come to those who wait,'
(I say these words to make me glad),
But something answers soft and sad,
'They come, but often come too late.'

Thanks Anna!

deleted_user 10/31/2009

This message has been coming at me lately-just sit and be still. I am so anxious to get things "moving" as I can be driven once I know what I want. But I need to be still, not obsess over what to do next.

Awesome post...your on the right track girly!

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