The Reasons Why Big Secrets Explode when We Let Sleeping Dogs Lie – Step 5
“[We] tend to
live secret lives.
For many years, we
covered low self-esteem
by hiding behind phony
images that we hop-
ed would fool peo-
ple.” (The Basic
Text, p.33)
Why Faith Alone is Useless and What it Takes to Make Life Worth Living – Step 3 begins
How have you let your HP into your life, lately?
Featured Comment on Life ::: “This weekend I have 3 days off. When I’m relaxed as I am now I’m more generous and forgiving. I feel more compassion when my head isn’t full of thoughts about what I need to be doing.” – Adam
“Holding onto Anger is like Grasping onto a Hot Coal … ” – Step 4
“Holding onto
anger is like grasp-
ing onto a hot coal
with the intent of throw-
ing it at someone else.
You are the one who
gets burned.”
– Gautama Buddha (563-483 B.C.) Hindu Prince and founder of Buddhism
Finding the Courage to Keep Catastrophic, Calamities from Cascading Out of Control – Step 4
From Michael C. – “Sometimes I listen but I do not hear, there’s always a message if I’m willing to be still and have an open ear.”
These will Definitely Stop All Spiritual Progress Dead in Its Tracks – Step 4
- From Ari T. – “This entry was exactly what I needed today 🙂 it had me reflect on how self-pity made my life unmanageable the last few days. I threw the full pity party, feeding my disease with self-destructive behaviors … “
Learning to be Human Again can Forge Eternal Bonds – Step 4
“We see ourselves as we really are, accepting our good qualities along with our defects … . We are becoming what we were meant to be all along: whole human beings.” (It Works, How and Why, p. 74)
The Metta Sutta – Living Our Lives with a “Limitless Heart” – Step 4
“The third heart practice is loving-kindness, also known as metta. These are thoughts that are free from ill-will, simply wishing that somebody else be happy that they be well and free from suffering.” (Recovery Dharma, pg. 28)
A Few Ways to Discover “The Sole Purpose of Human Existence” – Step 4
“As far as
we can discern,
the sole purpose of
human existence is
to kindle a light in
the darkness of
mere being.”
– Carl Jung (1875 – 1961) Swiss psychologist
This is the Place “Where You Renew Your Springs that Never Dry Up.” Step 4
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
– Pearl S. Buck (1892 – 1973) U.S. author & 1st female Nobel Prize winner
Even if We Try to Pray it Away … Sex Lurks in the Undertow – Step 4
“Yet, as with other addictions and compulsions, the costs are great. In this case, sex becomes a furtive enemy to be continually kept at bay, even at the price of annihilating a part of oneself.” (Sexual Anorexia, p. 1)
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