Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Today's Gift
A person who is mistrustful and self-centered has difficulty listening to someone else. Perhaps a person we are close to wants to be understood by us. But we do not hear them on their own terms because we are so intensely involved with our own shame. So we react to our feelings of guilt rather than really hearing what they want to say about their experience. Or we may be so worried about who has control that we fail to receive the information we are being given. Then we respond with "Yes, but..."
True learning comes - like true intimacy - when we have an open mind. As we detach ourselves, separate from our own ego, we hear the other person better and grow more intimate.
Action for the Day: May I learn to set aside my own self-centeredness. Today, I will grow more if I set my ego aside when others are talking to me.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
Spiritual Progress First
The head of the house ought to remember that they are mainly to blame for what befell their home.
They can scarcely square the account in their lifetime. But they must see the danger of over-concentration on financial success. Although financial recovery is on the way for many of us, we found we could not place money first. For us, material well-being always followed spiritual progress; it never preceded.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 127
Thought to Ponder
Spiritual progress isn't what gets us sober, it's what keeps us sober.
AA-related 'Alconym'
T I M E = Things I Must Earn
The power to care
by Ralph Marston
You have powerful tools, resources, skills at your disposal. Remind yourself, challenge yourself to use them for good, meaningful, life-affirming and life-improving purposes.
You have life, time, awareness, and good sense. Do yourself and all the world a big favor, and make great use of all you have.
The world is often distracting and discouraging, and will tempt you to stray from what really matters. Yet you can rise above that temptation, and make a substantive difference in every day.
You have the power to care. You have the ability to follow through on that care, to support, to encourage, to build and achieve.
Life arises each morning and takes on the distinct characteristics of the people who are living it that day. Your attitude and your actions make life what it is, and within that truth is magnificent opportunity.
Exercise fully your power to care, to work for the goodness you know is possible. Give your care, your effort, your love, and push life in its best direction.
It is impossible that anything should be produced if there were nothing existing before. --Aristotle
Everything comes from something. All the organic compounds in our world come from four elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. From these simple ingredients have developed the marvelous chains of self-replicating proteins that fill the planet with jungles, gardens, farms, the swarming life of the sea, and four billion people.
Each of us contains all human possibilities within ourselves. Nothing that we do comes from nowhere; we all have the capacity for great goodness as well as great selfishness and blindness. The choice, at every moment, is ours. What will we use out of our formidable repertoire of responses?
Most of us have a pattern of response that we are comfortable with. Our habitual behavior saves us from the discomfort of always having to make a choice. But in exchange for comfort, we give up a little bit of our spontaneity. Every once in a while, it's good for us to become aware of what our habits are, and what determines our usual behavior.
Today I'll take myself off automatic pilot and navigate the whole course in person.
From the book The Promise of a New Day by Karen Casey & Martha Vanceburg. ©

From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
You should not have your own idea when you listen to someone.... To have nothing in your mind is naturalness. Then you will understand what he says. --Shunryu Suzuki
You should not have your own idea when you listen to someone.... To have nothing in your mind is naturalness. Then you will understand what he says. --Shunryu Suzuki
A person who is mistrustful and self-centered has difficulty listening to someone else. Perhaps a person we are close to wants to be understood by us. But we do not hear them on their own terms because we are so intensely involved with our own shame. So we react to our feelings of guilt rather than really hearing what they want to say about their experience. Or we may be so worried about who has control that we fail to receive the information we are being given. Then we respond with "Yes, but..."
True learning comes - like true intimacy - when we have an open mind. As we detach ourselves, separate from our own ego, we hear the other person better and grow more intimate.
Action for the Day: May I learn to set aside my own self-centeredness. Today, I will grow more if I set my ego aside when others are talking to me.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
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One Day At A Time
Spiritual Progress First
The head of the house ought to remember that they are mainly to blame for what befell their home.
They can scarcely square the account in their lifetime. But they must see the danger of over-concentration on financial success. Although financial recovery is on the way for many of us, we found we could not place money first. For us, material well-being always followed spiritual progress; it never preceded.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 127
Thought to Ponder
Spiritual progress isn't what gets us sober, it's what keeps us sober.
AA-related 'Alconym'
T I M E = Things I Must Earn
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
The power to care
by Ralph Marston
You have powerful tools, resources, skills at your disposal. Remind yourself, challenge yourself to use them for good, meaningful, life-affirming and life-improving purposes.
You have life, time, awareness, and good sense. Do yourself and all the world a big favor, and make great use of all you have.
The world is often distracting and discouraging, and will tempt you to stray from what really matters. Yet you can rise above that temptation, and make a substantive difference in every day.
You have the power to care. You have the ability to follow through on that care, to support, to encourage, to build and achieve.
Life arises each morning and takes on the distinct characteristics of the people who are living it that day. Your attitude and your actions make life what it is, and within that truth is magnificent opportunity.
Exercise fully your power to care, to work for the goodness you know is possible. Give your care, your effort, your love, and push life in its best direction.
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