How have you demonstrated love with no strings attached, lately?
“The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
– W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965)
THE PRACTICAL WAYS WE ‘PUT LOVE INTO ACTION’ ** –
“We have entered
the world of the Spirit.”
“This is not an overnight
matter. It should continue
for our lifetime. Continue to
watch for selfishness, dishon-
esty, resentment, and fear.”
“Love and tolerance of
others is our code.”
(The Big Book,
p. 84)
“Every time I am of service I think that is love with no strings attached. Every time I practice the 7th tradition, especially generously, I’m practicing love with no strings attached. A couple weeks ago I hugged a person at a meeting that clearly hadn’t bathed in a VERY long time. There were definitely no strings there and my mind was screaming to run the other way.” – Adam
I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston (4:34)
W Somerset Maugham’s 140th Birthday (10:17)
Fragments of Love Meditation (7:04)
“One large part of my recovery is honestly accepting responsibility for decisions I have made in the past. As a child I thought I had no choice but to blindly follow and accept everything my religion taught me; when I got older I could no longer abide by the teaching of my church so I left the church and did not find spirituality for many years. Today I am learning to let go and let God – as Langston Hughes wrote, “In an envelope marked personal, God wrote me a letter; in a letter marked personal, I responded.” – Margot E.
Every time I am of service I think that is love with no strings attached. Every time I practice the 7th tradition, especially generously, I’m practicing love with no strings attached. A couple weeks ago I hugged a person at a meeting that clearly hadn’t bathed in a VERY long time. There were definitely no strings there and my mind was screaming to run the other way.
This weekend at Big Gay Sunday, felt like love with no strings attached. People sharing food they brought and being kind to one another was happening all over the place.
One large part of my recovery is honestly accepting responsibility for decisions I have made in the past. As a child I thought I had no choice but to blindly follow and accept everything my religion taught me; when I got older I could no longer abide by the teaching of my church so I left the church and did not find spirituality for many years. Today I am learning to let go and let God – as Langston Hughes wrote, “In an envelope marked personal, God wrote me a letter; in a letter marked personal, I responded.”