How to Succeed and Surf Atop the Emotional Tsunamis Roiling Within – Step 11

“Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great  chewing complacency.”

– Aesop (620 – 560 BC) Greek author / teacher

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An Alternate Way to Conceive of a Power Greater than Ourselves – Step 10

THE CONSCIENCES FELT BY ALL – “As members listen carefully to each other and consult their personal understanding of a loving God, something happens: Solutions to problems become apparent … . In developing a group conscience, a clear mutual understanding or consensus arises.” (It Works, How & Why, p. 99)

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Enlightenment, Spanning the 7 Seas, is Lit Anew by “The 100th Monkey Effect” – Step 10

“Let’s further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes. THEN IT HAPPENED!  By that evening almost every [monkey] in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them.” “… the habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea.”  – Ken Keyes Jr. (1921 – ) spiritual author on enlightenment

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Why what We do has been Hammered Out “on the Anvils of Experience” – Step 10

“It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.”

– Henry James (1843 – 1916) U.S. novelist

How has adhering to the recovery tradition of “unity” been beneficial in your life, lately?

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The Secrets of the Third Eye as a Portal to Connecting with Our Humanity – Step 10

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”

– Gautama Buddha (563-483 B.C.), Hindu Prince and founder of Buddhism

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