“He who has faith has … an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.” – B. C. Forbes (1880 – 1954) Scottish journalist
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“Other people in our lives help us to develop trust and loving attitudes, we demand less and give more. We are slower to anger and quicker to forgive”. “We begin to feel lovable which is a feeling totally alien to our old egocentric selves.” (The Basic Text, p. 97)
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“If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts … the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.” Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) German-American physicist / philosopher
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From J.B. jr. – “Today my H.P. has been a calming influence. Several times I wanted to jump to conclusions but I remained calm it was at least on one occasion quite wrong.” (on the nature of HPs)
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“We couldn’t handle
the ordeal of life by our
selves. It wasn’t until we
made a mess of our lives
that we realized we couldn’t
do it alone. By admitting
this, we achieved a glim
pse of humility. This is
the main ingredient of
Step Seven.” (The
Basic Text, p. 36)
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“A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted; rather than as something we must have.” (12 & 12, p. 75)
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From Margot E. – “To be weary is to be tired in body and tired in spirit. What a relief this Step is. At last, and in this life, I get to lay by burdens down.”
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