“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” – Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) U.S. poet laureate
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Some Solutions to Restoring the Relations We Hold Most Dear – Step 6
“The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being.” (12 & 12, p. 53) on relations
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The Three Poisons of the Bodhidharma to Avoid at All Costs – Step 6
“The ignorant mind, with its infinite, afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.”- Bodhidharma (c. 5th century AD) Zen Buddhist monk & founder of Kung Fu.
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The Brilliance of Hammerhead Logic on Full Display – Step 6
“Against logic
there is no armor like
ignorance.”– Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 1988) U.S., educator/author
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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
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The Badge of Honor that Keeps us Coming Back … Even from the Farthest Star – Step 6
“… in Steps One through Three, we were given the basic tools we need to negotiate the path of recovery.” “On this spiritual foundation, we lay the principles of commitment and perseverance as we work the Sixth Step.” (It Works, How & Why, p. 44)
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From the Dark, Dank Recesses of Our Soul a Special Gift may Emerge – Step 6
“Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer.” – excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
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The Times When “Progress, Not Perfection” Leads to Greater Enlightenment – Step 6
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. …”
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Get Ready to be “Consumed by the Fire of [Your] Own Creativity” – Step 6
“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)
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Our Journey from the “Primordial Ooze” into a “Vast Cosmic Dark” * – Step 6
“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
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