Thursday, June 11, 2020
Today's Gift
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
The word compassion means literally to suffer with someone. We normally use the word more broadly to mean empathize, or feel, with a person. Moving out of the prison of our own self-centeredness, we grow in the ability to see the world through the eyes of others. We grow wiser and more effective in our own lives because we aren’t limited to one outlook. We learn to forgive ourselves and suddenly we are much freer with our forgiveness of others.
There is a generosity of spirit in compassion, and the most generous attitude comes when we can act compassionately with someone we don’t especially like. Even though we may not choose a particular person to be our best friend, we can accept and honor the hard times they've had, and we can put ourselves in their place to see what their challenges have been. Nothing is more admirable than a strong person acting generously and compassionately toward another human being.
Today, I will strive to be generous with compassion and to see the world as someone else sees it.
From the book Stepping Stones, More Daily Meditations for Men ©2019
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
Perhaps we have feared discovering our center; perhaps we have feared finding nothing there. The struggle to believe in ourselves, to know we have an important part to play in the circle of life, the circle encompassing all life, is a hard-fought struggle for many of us. But we are learning. We are finding treasures within ourselves. Others are helping us to find those treasures. Sharing special moments in time with loved ones and ones we are learning to love reveals many treasures.
All we have is here--now--us. We are all we ever need to be--here and now. We are, at every moment, what we need to be if only we'd trust revealing our true selves, our centers, to one another. Our centers each need that of another.
This program needs each of us for what we add to it. The worthiness of the program, of the whole circle, is enhanced by the inclusion of our centers.
Today's Action: I will share my center today with you.
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
Such is the paradox of AA regeneration: strength arising out
of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one's old life
as a condition for finding a new one. But we of AA do not have
to understand this paradox, we have only to be grateful for it.
- Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 46
Thought to Ponder
I have learned how a heart full of gratitude feels.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Amazing Adventure
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
If you focus on anger and retribution, you create more reasons for anger and retribution. Focus instead on giving goodness, and you make even more goodness possible.
If your aim is to cause harm, that will harm you too. Seek instead to give goodness, because the world you improve is the same world you live in.
You have the strength to choose what is good, what is right, what is helpful. You have the commitment, the fortitude, to follow through on those positive choices.
Give goodness, in ways that are unique, insightful, based on your experience, driven by your love. Give goodness because you know you can, because you’re able to envision life at its best.
Give goodness for the sake of goodness. Even when it’s inconvenient, especially when it’s inconvenient, give goodness.
Remind yourself often of the best of who you are. From deep within, for those with whom you share the miracle of life, give goodness.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
If you focus on anger and retribution, you create more reasons for anger and retribution. Focus instead on giving goodness, and you make even more goodness possible.
If your aim is to cause harm, that will harm you too. Seek instead to give goodness, because the world you improve is the same world you live in.
You have the strength to choose what is good, what is right, what is helpful. You have the commitment, the fortitude, to follow through on those positive choices.
Give goodness, in ways that are unique, insightful, based on your experience, driven by your love. Give goodness because you know you can, because you’re able to envision life at its best.
Give goodness for the sake of goodness. Even when it’s inconvenient, especially when it’s inconvenient, give goodness.
Remind yourself often of the best of who you are. From deep within, for those with whom you share the miracle of life, give goodness.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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