The Message – “One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
Sophocles (496 BC – 406 BC) Greek playwright of 123 plays including Oedipus Rex
Category: Step 11
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Cultivating the “Great Reality Deep Down Inside” – Step 11
LISTEN CAREFULLY AND YOUR TRUTH WILL SPEAK – “Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there. He was as much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis, it is only there that He may be found. It was so with us.” (The Big Book, p. 55)
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“The Sun is but a Morning Star”- Step 11
FAITH DRAWN FROM THE LIGHT OF ANOTHER – “We admit that our lives have been unmanageable, but sometimes we have a problem admitting our need for help. Our own self-will leads to many problems in our recovery.” “Just for today I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me … .” (The Basic Text. p. 93) on the Sun
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A Small but Powerful Detail, Best Not Forgotten, in All Our Prayers – Step 11
“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
– Thomas A. Edison (1847 – 1931) U.S. inventor
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Potentially, One of the Most Consequential, Spiritual Sin a Person can Possibly Commit – Step 11
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
– George Eliot (1819 – 1880) British novelist
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A Practical Way to Turbocharge Our Recovery Each and Every Day – Step 11
AA.MAKING WAY FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH – ” … we go beyond merely asking for the power to live up to God’s [our HP’s]* plan for our own lives. We begin to seek out ways to be of service, to make a difference in the [lives] of another … .” (It Works, How & Why, p. 81)
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Let Us Be Your Valentine – The Meaning of Love and how to Find It – Step 11
LOVE NEVER JUDGES AND MIGHT BE NEXT DOOR – “We teach by example.” “Compassion lends kindness to all our efforts in service to others. “[We] set aside our self-righteousness. Because the only requirement for membership is a quality we cannot measure, the right to judge another’s desire is denied us.” (It Works, How & Why, p 109)
Today’s SFZ
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The Dawn of a Brand, New World Lights Up Our Path Once More – Step 11
IT LIGHTS OUR WAY – “But most of all we shall want Sunlight, nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step into the sun.” (As Bill Sees It, p. 10)
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Get Ready to Kick-off “Once More into the Breach” – Step 11
GET READY TO KICK-OFFF “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness and humility;” Wm Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet/playwright on our great reality
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The Key to Being Loving with No Strings Attached – Step 11
“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.”Lao-tzu (604 BC – 531 BC) Chinese Taoist philosopher on cutting all ties