No Matter how deep the Hole, this is how We can Emerge Victorious – Step 7

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”  – Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) Danish philosopher (on contrary action)

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Avoiding Financial Armageddon Looming from Above – Step 7

“Hostile, resentful, self-centered and self-seeking, we cut ourselves off from the outside world. Anything not completely familiar became alien and dangerous. Our world shrank and isolation became our life. We used in order to survive.” (The Basic Text, p. 4)

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Jump into Service and Untold Riches Await in this Noble Work Humbly Wrought – Step 7

SERVING OUR HP, OTHERS AND OURSELVES –
“I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding.”
  (The Big Book, p. 76)

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The Sweet Breath of Everlasting Youth Animating Awareness – Step 7

WERE YOU READY IN YOUR YOUTH?  “We have a right to expect more from life than mere survival.  [W]e are here because we are ready to heal. [W]e are ready to look at ourselves and our lives with new eyes. We are ready to become aware.”  (How Al Anon Works, p. 26)

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It’s What Makes this Process both Beautiful and Sublime at the Same Time – Step 7

“WE ARE BEING CHANGED” –

“It doesn’t matter
that we will not attain
a state  of  perfection  or
complete humility in our life-
time.   The ability  to  contem
plate  this  grand  vision  and
meditate  upon  it  are  rare
and priceless gifts in their
own right.   We are being
changed.”   (It Works,
How &  Why, p. 53)

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Where Trust & Faith Meet to Restore our Limitless “Reservoir of Courage” & “Hope” – Step 7

“He who has faith has … an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.”  – B. C. Forbes (1880 – 1954) Scottish journalist

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Ever Felt Stripped Naked; Being Left to Bare Our “Promiscuous Misery” for All the World to See – Step 7

“If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts … the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.”  Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) German-American physicist / philosopher

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Some Subtle Reasons Why We Get More from Being Loving than Being Loved – Step 7

“Other people in our lives help us to develop trust and loving attitudes, we demand less and give more. We are slower to anger and quicker to forgive”. “We begin to feel lovable which  is a feeling totally alien  to our old egocentric selves.”  (The Basic Text, p. 97)

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