The Secret Ingredient that Spurs Spiritual Growth – Step 8
“THE WILLINGNESS TO GROW” – “The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritual development.” (As Bill Sees It, p. 171)
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Celebrate Native American Heritage Day on Our Quest to Heal the One Person We’ve Harmed the Most – Step 8
“You have to look deeper, way below the anger, the hurt, the hate, the jealousy, the self-pity, way down deeper where the dreams lie, son. Find your dream. It’s the pursuit of the dream that heals you.”
-Billy Mills (Makata Taka Hela) (1938 – ) Oglala-Lakota
(first and only American athlete to win Olympic gold for the 10,000 meters footrace)
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Our “Shield against Calamity” – Step 8
“He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate on his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.”
– The Talmud (200 ~ 500 CE) a compendium of oral Jewish law
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“The Healthiest Emotion of All” – Step 8
“The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.”
– Hans Selye (1907 – 1982) Canadian biologist on stress theories
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“Fear is a Stranger to the Ways of Love” – Step 8
“FEAR IS A STRANGER TO THE WAYS OF LOVE” – “I am at home. Fear is the stranger here. Fear is a stranger to the ways of love. Identify with fear, and you will be a stranger to yourself. And thus you are unknown to you (ACIM Wkbk Lesson 160)
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Let’s Dare to Open the Door to Our Demons … Once More – Step 8
“If you know the
enemy and know your-
self you need not fear the
results of a hundred battles.”
– Sun Tzu (c. 403-221 BC) Chinese philosopher/ war tactician
Today’s SFZ
The Reasons We Plea … “Relieve Me of the Bondage of Self” – Step 8
THE BOND OF SELFLESSNESS – “Make us servants of Your will and grant us a bond of selflessness, that this may truly be Your work, not ours – in order that no addict, anywhere, need to die from the horrors of addiction.” (The Basic Text,p. xi on the self)
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Where Love, Faith & Willingness Vanquish All Fears – Step 8
NO TIME TO WASTE. JUMP INTO ACTION & OCCUPY LOVE TODAY! “But if a willing start is made, then the great advantages of doing this will so quickly reveal themselves that the pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.” (12 & 12, pp. 77 – 78)
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Putting a Stop to “the Thing that Transforms Us into Beasts” – Step 8
“We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.”
– Patrick Henry (1738-1799) U.S. Revolutionary War Statesman
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“Access the Power of the Now” to Heal a Wounded Soul – Step 8
REMOVING “THE GROUND GLASS” – “The moral inventory is a cool examination of the damages that occurred to us during life and a sincere effort to look at them in a true perspective. This has the effect of taking the ground glass out of us, emotional substance that still cuts and inhibits.” (As Bill Sees It, p.140)
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