Wednesday, May 23, 2018

66 On Seeing Clearly



EXPERIENCE has taught us that as we begin to come from a place of deeper understanding, from a place of connection with a Higher Power or with the Way of Things, we may begin to notice that there are several truths quietly at work in our lives.
First: if we try to escape from life’s situations without allowing them to heal or to come to completion, the need for the completion will rise again someplace else in our lives, sometimes changing its form or appearance, but still being of the same necessity: that’s Karma at work in our lives.
Second: there is a thought that seems almost inconspicuous in all this, yet it is probably one of the more important principles in recovery.  It also has a Catch 22 quality to it: what we believe is what we will experience, and healing takes place only in our minds, although it seems to manifest itself in other places as other things outside ourselves.  When we remove ourselves from a dilemma without resolving it to the soul’s satisfaction, and thereby avoiding the healing process contained in the resolution of that dilemma, we are not allowing the spiritual forces to prevail.  What we are doing is simply mood-altering, and that is avoidance.  So, the need for the process to take place will follow us around like a lost puppy dog from situation to situation.  The circumstances will be recreated again and again as the soul attempts to have us resolve these deeper conflicts it perceives as needing completion.  This seems to be The Way of Things.
Third: when you try to fix a situation all by yourself and you choose to rely only on yourself and your own resources, know this: You Are In Serious Trouble. 
The Way of Things is simply to address life with gratitude in our hearts. To face the tasks that arise on the path before us. Then to ask for the guidance we need.  Then to allow the healing to come to us. 
Put another way:
Round Pegs ... Square Holes.
Larger Mallets
Simply Don’t Work.


Wednesday, May 9, 2018

63 On Seeing Simple Truths - On the Helped and the Helper




EXPERIENCE has taught us that we will hear this voice with certainty.  This sense of certainty comes from a place deep within our souls, a place far beneath the urging of our egos. 
We will know it by our instinct and from our appreciation of life.  It is a place we come to within ourselves because of the real efforts we made to find it.
We will learn to recognize it as it works with us on a daily basis.
As we acknowledge and process this newfound facet of ourselves, we will begin to express it in all aspects of our lives. 
It happens all by itself.  We will come to see that we can’t help but express it once we acknowledge and accept that we are connected to it.

That’s The Way It Works!


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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

63 Understanding Me While Being We ...



Fourteenth Principle[i]

Take Risks


Failure is not an option
This Statement Is Not True.
Failure has to be an option
For life to be rich.
Why?
Simple!
It is in the “leap of faith” that Risk Taking Entails!
It is here in that space of conscious awareness that life gains its flavor. 
Life and its richness are embodied in the attempting to do
what you've never done before.
So, failure has to be an option
But fear is not.

                                                                               Understanding Me While Being Me
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[i] From Quotes by Arthur C Clarke ... author ... futurist ... visionary