“From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things:”
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“Time is a Very Misleading Thing.” – Step 6
In re: The Now
“It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever is the now.” – George Harrison (1943 – 2001) musician & songwriter (the Beatles)
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“If You Want to Make the World a Better Place, Take a Look at Yourself And … ” – Step 6
“Change, even wonderful, positive change, almost always involves some grief for the old ways of life we are letting go, even if that way of life kept us miserable.” (Al Anon Works, How & Why, p. 88)
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The True Costs of the “Harmless” Little Lies We Tell – Step 6
“If one of our character defects is dishonesty, we can think about situations in our lives where we normally lie and imagine how it would feel, to tell the truth for a change.”
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“We Found the Great Reality Deep Down Within Us” – Step 6
From Margot E. – “I have never even contemplated the existence of “inner freedom.” I have only ever considered that there is physical freedom…and perhaps intellectual freedom. Spiritual freedom, emotional freedom add infinitely to quality of being. I exist in Choice in all these realms – so freedom in all these realms must be so. Learning and using these freedoms requires more thought and intention on my part.” (on Our Inner Reality)
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How to Ease Tensions btwn Friends when They Rise to a Fever Pitch – Step 6
“It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.”– Al Franken (1951 – ) U.S. Senator / satirist twins
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We Found the Place Where Sorrow and the “Ache for Home” can Finally be Relieved – Step 6
“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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