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- Do not let any prejudice you might have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47The idea of faith is a very large chunk to swallow when fear, doubt and anger abound in and...
- Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the testfirst and the instruction afterward. Niklaus WirthWhen I taught adult school, I offered a yoga class followed by a stress-management course that I called Easing on Down the Road. The first...
- March 3Beyond the Dark NightThough I walk through the valleyof the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Psalm 23At some point, everyone passes through a dark night of the soul. This is a difficult time in which we are moving from an old life to a...
- Do not be discouraged. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60Few experiences are of less value to me than fast sobriety. Too many times discouragement has been the bonus for unrealistic expectations, not to mention self-pity or fatigue from my wanting to...
- Where does A.A. get its direction? . . . These practical folk then read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may express Himself in the group conscience. . . The elder statesman is the one who sees the...
- The attitude of gratitude brings altitude. AnonymousIn The Gospel According to Jesus4, Stephen Mitchell adapts a marvelous Zen parable from Zenkei Shibayamas A Flower Does Not Talk:There lived a woman named Sono, whose devotion and purity of heart...
- Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of ones old life as a condition for finding a new one. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46 What glorious mysteries paradoxes are! They do not compute, yet...
- Now all that is left is for you to become yourself. SenseThe renowned sage Rabbi Zusya wept as he lay on his deathbed. His students, gathered by his side, were astonished. Rabbi, why do you weep? one of them asked. If anyone is assured of a place...
- My Buddy, Bobinmaine is celebrating three years today. What can I say other than a song:) Alot ha!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUUN3NH0x2A
- In the beginning, it was four whole years before A.A. brought permanent sobriety to even one alcoholic woman. Like the high bottoms, the women said they were different; . . . The Skid-Rower said he was different . . . so did the artists and the...
- there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25My first attempt at the Steps was one of obligation and necessity, which resulted in a deep feeling of discouragement in the...
- Some of us wont believe in God, others cant, and still others who do believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 25It was the changes I saw in the new people who came into the...
- Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among ussometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84One of the most important things A.A. has given me, in...
- To the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman, many A.A.s can say, Yes, we were like youfar too smart for our own good. Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our brain power alone. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 60Even the most...
- A friend may well be reckoned the masterpieceof nature. Ralph Waldo EmersonThe acclaimed motion picture Field of Dreams touched the hearts of millions and was nominated for an Academy Award as best picture of the year. Actor Kevin Costner accepted...