What it Takes to Experience the Loving Embrace of a Power Greater than Ourselves – Step 6
“What we’re all striving for is authenticity, a spirit – to – spirit connection.” – Oprah Winfrey (1954 – ) U.S., TV mogul / actor
“What we’re all striving for is authenticity, a spirit – to – spirit connection.” – Oprah Winfrey (1954 – ) U.S., TV mogul / actor
“Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer.” – excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
From BYRON – “Some indicators I use to gauge my spiritual progression definitely are all internal. I grew up not learning how to regulate my emotions and learned to be reactive to survive. I now know I’m growing in handling situations as an observer though I still get setbacks at times. Progress not perfection I am aware. …”
“The full fruit of a labor of love lives in the harvest, and that always comes in its right season …” (The Basic Text, p. xxi)
“How he does cher-
ish the thought that man,
risen so majestically from a
single cell in the primordial
ooze, is the spearhead of evol-
ution and therefore the only
god that his universe knows!
Must he renounce all this
to save himself?” (12 &
12, p.25 on the darkness)
“Why ask for something before we are ready for it? This would be asking for trouble. So many times addicts have sought the rewards of hard work without the labor.” (The Basic Text, p. 33)
“It’s not that
some people have
willpower and some
don’t. It’s that some
people are ready to
change and others
are not.”
– James Gordon, M.D. – holistic healer