THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL CAN TAKE MANY FORMS – “When we tried to control ourselves, we wound up demoralized. Even when we succeeded, it wasn’t enough to make us happy. We hid from our pain by eating … .” (Overeaters Anon., p. 5)
When have you last felt, like Lincoln, “driven” to your knees to pray?
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“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” – William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830), English
humanist/writer
When was the last time you allowed another person’s self-expression to blossom into an act of shared love?
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IT MIGHT TAKE UP TO 10 YEARS JUST TO MASTER THE BASIC PROGRAM –
“When our lives
seem to be falling apart,
we reapply ourselves to
the basics of the … program.
We stay in close contact with
our sponsor, work the steps,
and go to meetings. We sur-
render again, knowing that
victory lies in the ad-
mission of defeat.”
(It Works, How &
Why, p. 10)
Which basic spiritual principles do you deploy when feeling overwhelmed?
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HOW POWERLESSNESS MAKES ROOM FOR GRACE -“We are not cured … . What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.” (The Big Book, p. 85)
In what ways have you felt relief (or a reprieve) after acknowledging powerlessness over something lately?
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CUZ “PNP” (PROGRESS, NOT PERFECTION) GETS US WHERE WE NEED TO BE –
“The point is, that
we are willing to grow
along spiritual lines. The
principles we have set down
are guides to progress. We
claim spiritual progress ra
ther than spiritual per
fection.” (The Big
Book, p. 60)
What do you use to gauge your own spiritual progress, lately?
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AND A SIMPLER UNIVERSE WILL UNFOLD – “Our groups work as well as they do because they keep it simple, lest anything get in the way of carrying our message as simply and directly as possible, one addict to another.” (It Works. How & Why p. 139)
How have you kept it simple lately?
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“In a country that was built on a protest.” “You say to protest is wrong because you spoke out of turn. Because you spoke up for people that were marginalized.” “You spoke up for people that we don’t want to care about. In a country built on people who speak out of turn, who spoke out of turn, who thought out of turn, to build a nation. I come from a long line of people who have resisted.”
– Rep. Justin J. Pearson on protest desire (1994 – ). Expelled from the Tennessee State House on 4/6/2023. The first since the Civil War.
How would you rate your commitment to your own spiritual practice lately?
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“A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.” – Robert Hall (1764 – 1831) British clergyman (on friendships w/ an addict)
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How would you rate your commitment to your own spiritual practice in recovery lately?
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“The exodus
from Egypt occurs
in every human being,
in every era, in every
year, and in every
day.”
– Rabbi Nachman Breslov (1772 – 1810) Ukrainian Rabbi who revived the Hasidic movement
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How would you describe your own exodus from those things that plague you most lately?
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