Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Today's Gift
Most of us have very narrow, limited ways of understanding what happens to us. We are generally practical people, and if something goes wrong we immediately begin to think of how to fix it. We take a cause-and-effect approach to understand the events around us rather than a circular or symbolic approach. Perhaps we turn quickly to blaming instead of asking what is the meaning or the message in what is happening. We see our own experience as the center of events. We forget that our lives are only today's expression in a line of generations before us.
We become too self-satisfied with our ways of understanding the world. It may be comforting to think we understand what is going on. When we let go of that comfort and open ourselves to a more profound awareness, we enter the spiritual realm. Here we learn that facts are not enough to achieve truth. We begin to understand that love - in the form of connections with all of creation - is where we find the most profound meaning.
Action for the Day: I will remind myself that I am a part of the whole universe, and my relationship with my Higher Power will open me to profound knowledge.
Safe Guidance
The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we found, did open the
channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river
which led to sure power and safe guidance from our Higher Power as we were
increasingly better able to understand Them. So, practicing these Steps,
we had a spiritual awakening about which finally there was no question.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 109
Thought to Ponder
Praying is asking the Universe for help,
meditating is listening for Universe's answer.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P U S H = Pray Until Something Happens
Place of power
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you. – Rob Liano
Self Value
We have a real life of our own. Yes, we do.
That empty feeling, that senses that everyone except us has a life - an important life, a valuable life, a better life - is a remnant from the past. It is also a self-defeating belief that is inaccurate.
We are real. So is our life. Jump into it, and we'll see.
Today, I will live my life and treasure it as mine.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©
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
That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things. --Frithjof Schuon
That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things. --Frithjof Schuon
Most of us have very narrow, limited ways of understanding what happens to us. We are generally practical people, and if something goes wrong we immediately begin to think of how to fix it. We take a cause-and-effect approach to understand the events around us rather than a circular or symbolic approach. Perhaps we turn quickly to blaming instead of asking what is the meaning or the message in what is happening. We see our own experience as the center of events. We forget that our lives are only today's expression in a line of generations before us.
We become too self-satisfied with our ways of understanding the world. It may be comforting to think we understand what is going on. When we let go of that comfort and open ourselves to a more profound awareness, we enter the spiritual realm. Here we learn that facts are not enough to achieve truth. We begin to understand that love - in the form of connections with all of creation - is where we find the most profound meaning.
Action for the Day: I will remind myself that I am a part of the whole universe, and my relationship with my Higher Power will open me to profound knowledge.
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
The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we found, did open the
channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river
which led to sure power and safe guidance from our Higher Power as we were
increasingly better able to understand Them. So, practicing these Steps,
we had a spiritual awakening about which finally there was no question.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 109
Thought to Ponder
Praying is asking the Universe for help,
meditating is listening for Universe's answer.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P U S H = Pray Until Something Happens
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Place of power
by Ralph Marston
Are you inside the problem, or are you outside it? The answer can be, both.
Physically, financially, socially, you’re inside the problem. Mentally, spiritually, you can situate yourself outside of it.
You can put yourself in a more objective, creative, effective position. You can visualize your way to a perspective that empowers you to successfully handle the problem.
You can think and feel what you choose, without limits, simply by choosing. You never have to be stuck or stymied by any situation.
Put yourself in a place of power. Put yourself in a place where you can transform problems into opportunities, disappointments into determination.
Using the power of your mind and spirit, make your perspective bigger and higher than any problem you encounter. With that perspective, you can find and follow a positive way forward.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Are you inside the problem, or are you outside it? The answer can be, both.
Physically, financially, socially, you’re inside the problem. Mentally, spiritually, you can situate yourself outside of it.
You can put yourself in a more objective, creative, effective position. You can visualize your way to a perspective that empowers you to successfully handle the problem.
You can think and feel what you choose, without limits, simply by choosing. You never have to be stuck or stymied by any situation.
Put yourself in a place of power. Put yourself in a place where you can transform problems into opportunities, disappointments into determination.
Using the power of your mind and spirit, make your perspective bigger and higher than any problem you encounter. With that perspective, you can find and follow a positive way forward.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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