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All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotion. —Willa Cather— We’re always fascinated by beauty, and we see it as the outward sign as goodness. For young children, anything that brings pleasure is good: soft fur, music, colored lights, candy. What a […]
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JOYFUL DISCOVERIES We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something […]
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It’s more profitable to turn away thine eyes from such things as displease thee than to be a slave to contention. —Thomas A.Kempis— Focusing our attention incessantly on matters that disturb us, keeps us disturbed. And our obsession with our problems leaves no room for their solutions. However, We are only powerless in the face […]
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The A.A. program is one of submission, release, and action. When we’re drinking, we’re submitting to a power greater than ourselves, liquor. Our own wills are no use against the power of liquor. One drink and we’re sunk. In A.A. we stop submitting to the power of liquor. Instead, we submit to a Power, also […]
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Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold. —Maurice Setter— Silver shines as bright as gold does. So often we forget this. So often we push, push, push. We forget to live for the moment. Trying too hard can be a defect of character. It can be a way we avoid life. […]
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HAPPINESS IS NOT THE POINT I don’t think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306 In my search “to be happy,” […]
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. . . pain is the root of knowledge. —Simone Weil— We don’t want pain in our lives. We dread the situations we anticipate will be painful. We probably even pray to be spared all painful experiences. But they come anyway, at times in profusion. And we not only survive the pain, we profit from […]
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. —Helen Keller— There is wonder in the moment, if we but look for it, let it touch us, believe in it. And with the recognition and celebration of the wonder comes the joy we […]
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[In the 16th century] one has only the difficulties involved in feeding a baby if the mother’s milk ran dry. —Philippe Aires— Scientific progress has brought our society to the point where such a disaster as a milkless mother need have no consequences for her or her infant. Clean water, sewage disposal, immunization, and a […]
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You’re never to old to grow up. —Shirley Conran— Some of us have spent many years trying not to grow up. As children, we watched the adults around us. They may not have seemed happy. “Is life all hard work for grown-ups?” We wondered. No, it’s not hard work. There are lots of good things […]