“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
“The realm of the Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all … .” (The Big Book, p. 44)
“Facing it,
always facing it.
That’s the way to
get through.
Face it.”
– Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) Polish novelist
“A man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.”
– William Faulkner (1897 – 1962) U.S. novelist
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)
“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
“It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.”
– Henry James (1843 – 1916) U.S. novelist
“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
MAKING MIRACLES HAPPEN –
“That one purpose,
[carrying the message]
clear and powerful, stands
alone in our collective con-
sciousness as the only thing
that really matters. With
that, all is possible and
miracles happen.”
(It Works, How &
Why, p. i)