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.
If you do not get it from yourself,
where will you go for it?
Buddha
In the film Willow, a young man in medieval times seeks to be-come an apprentice to the village shaman. Along with two other hopefuls, Willow is tested before an assembled crowd. If you can answer this question correctly, the wizard informs the three, I will teach you the ancient magic. The elder extends his hand and asks, In which finger does the power lie? Each of the first two applicants chooses a finger, and to the groans of the crowd, the wizard shakes his head. Finally, Willow makes his choice and he, too, is rejected.
Willow goes off to live a life of adventure and romance; he joins an army, weathers a war, and grows through many fascinating encounters. After a long time, Willow returns to the village, where the wizard asks him, What did you want to answer when I gave you the test?
I wanted to say, The power lies in my own hand.'
That was the correct answer, the wizard affirms. Why did you not say it?
I guess I just didnt believe in myself enough, Willow admits.
The illusion of the world is that other people have the power to make us into something we are not. The truth is that we are already everything, and no one outside of ourselves has the power to add to, or diminish, our wholeness. In spite of this fundamental reality, many of us have spent a great deal of time chasing illusions that the power rests somewhere other than in our own hearts and minds.
Beware of any individuals, organizations, or religions that assert that they have the power to save you or crucify you. People may have worldly power, but that is not the same as spiritual power. In the long run, only spiritual power has any meaning or worth?and you have all of it.
Help me remember that the God I seek lives
within me, as me.
I am the way, the truth, and the life
A Deep Breath of Life,Alan Cohen:)
where will you go for it?
Buddha
In the film Willow, a young man in medieval times seeks to be-come an apprentice to the village shaman. Along with two other hopefuls, Willow is tested before an assembled crowd. If you can answer this question correctly, the wizard informs the three, I will teach you the ancient magic. The elder extends his hand and asks, In which finger does the power lie? Each of the first two applicants chooses a finger, and to the groans of the crowd, the wizard shakes his head. Finally, Willow makes his choice and he, too, is rejected.
Willow goes off to live a life of adventure and romance; he joins an army, weathers a war, and grows through many fascinating encounters. After a long time, Willow returns to the village, where the wizard asks him, What did you want to answer when I gave you the test?
I wanted to say, The power lies in my own hand.'
That was the correct answer, the wizard affirms. Why did you not say it?
I guess I just didnt believe in myself enough, Willow admits.
The illusion of the world is that other people have the power to make us into something we are not. The truth is that we are already everything, and no one outside of ourselves has the power to add to, or diminish, our wholeness. In spite of this fundamental reality, many of us have spent a great deal of time chasing illusions that the power rests somewhere other than in our own hearts and minds.
Beware of any individuals, organizations, or religions that assert that they have the power to save you or crucify you. People may have worldly power, but that is not the same as spiritual power. In the long run, only spiritual power has any meaning or worth?and you have all of it.
Help me remember that the God I seek lives
within me, as me.
I am the way, the truth, and the life
A Deep Breath of Life,Alan Cohen:)
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I invited Bill to have dinner with me last Sunday. He wasn't willing to drive 7 hours to mid Michigan and teased me with his beautiful ribs!!! So, of course I ate alone and had cedar salmon
My Program annoys some people. They don't understand why I don't live as a "normal" person. Sometimes my family gets angry with me because my Program-based choices don't mesh well with what they want from me. I'm sorry for that, but the Program always comes first, and I know I am free to do what I need to do in order to remain sober.
I chose the Program because I own my own power.
Augusta
This Universal wisdom is totally represented not just in spiritual circles but also in psyhchiatry and psychology where the ideal is to move from having an "external lucus of control" to an "internal locus of control". It's ironic that 12 step programs and a spiritual perspective and modern psychiatry and psychology can be at odds with each other when some of their fundamental tenets are consistent with each other, - the same with world religions which way down at their most fundamental place have more in common than not - the Universal Truths, one of them being the power comes from within, not from external validating people, places and things.
Very timely message for me Oki..