- There are two doors, one marked heaven, the other lecture on heaven; we're all lined up at the lecture
on heaven. Cause we're not gonna get there until we figure it out.
- "Be Here Now" great book from the 60's by Baba Ram Dass.
- Constant repetition of the obvious.
- Coming home to a place he'd never been before.
- What's your worst fear?
- What's you most protected secret?
- It's not money, it's the love of money.
- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
- Just show up.
- Everyone has the right to be wrong.
- Being in pain is one thing, being in the victim is quite another.
- Truth resonates with a specific vibration heard only in the space where the still small voice resides.
- Sympathy for the Devil
- My life is in perfect order and harmony, even though it doesn't make sense to me.
- Sought through prayer and meditation, not medication.
- Autobiography in Five Chapters:
1) I walk down the street, there's a deep hole in the sidewalk,
I fall in. I'm lost. . . I am hopeless. It isn't my fault. It takes me forever to find my way out.
2) I walk down the same street, there's a deep hole in the sidewalk,
I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I'm in the same place. But it isn't my fault.
3) I walk down the same street, there's a deep hole in the sidewalk,
I see it is there. I still fall in. . . it's a habit. My eyes are open; I know where I am. It is my fault
I get out immediately.
4) I walk down the same street, there's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.
5) I walk down a different street.
- You cannot think your way into good living, you can only live your way into good thinking.
- Steve Winwood was 15 years old when he played for Spenser Davis Group; how does a 15 year old
English kid sound like a 40 year old black man?
- All present and accounted for.
- The only easy day was yesterday. (Navy Seal Motto)
- I'm Ok, you're Ok; I'm Ok, you're not Ok; I'm not Ok, you're Ok; I'm not Ok, you're not Ok.
which is it? Transactional analysis.
- Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles.
- Elvis Presley frequently would be watching something on TV that pissed him off so much he would
shoot his TV set. For the shit that passes for knowledge and entertainment, it makes all the sense
in the world to me. Don't you wish you could do that some time?
- No one here gets out alive.
- I'm not sure whether the devil exists, but I'm quite sure that evil does.
- If you had my life, you'd drink too.
- Get up, Suit up, Show up, and Shut the fuck up.
- You're here until you're not, then you're somewhere else.
- Tough times don't last, tough people do.
- A Course in Miracles claims that a miracle is a "change of perception," sounded kind of like a
cheap miracle to me. But think about that. If I have seen and reacted to something the same
way, over and over, for years, and now I see and react differently, that is miraculous.
- Acceptance is the key to all my problems.
- Life is about learning how to love and forgive; that's all it is.
- Get up; just keep getting up.
- I believe that my desire to please God, does in fact please God.
- Truth requires action. Once seen, the right action is obvious. Do you have the courage to see.
- Grant me the serenity, and the courage to change the things I can.
- God isn't lost, I am. God doesn't go anywhere, I do.
- There's no cure for life (Tony Soprano)
- Life is hard, get a helmet or a flack jacket.
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Don't here that one much
these days. Now, sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will require a lawyer, public
relations consultant and possibly jail time.
- Grown up.
- There's no escape from me.
- Karate do, Karate don't do, no Karate maybe do.
- You don't know what you've, till it's gone.
- Youth is truly wasted on the young.
- Beauty is wasted on ugly people.
- What do you really need that you don't already have right now?
- Enlightenment is in the wink of an eye.
- You can't ride two horses with one ass.
- Taps may be the saddest song ever written.
- Stop listening to the news.
- Says the patient to his doctor, "Doc, every time I do this it hurts," Doc, "don't do that."
- Bagpipes: strange, eerie, dark, haunting, baleful, weeping, sorrowful, consuming, earthy,
primal, complex, heart breaking; like the Scottish, and the Irish who invented them.
- A leaf falls in the forest; the bear smells it, the deer hears it, the eagle sees it.
- If you have never seen the Redwoods or Crater Lake, you need to before you die.
- Everyone is either a good example or a good bad example.
- Bleed just to know you're alive.
- And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. (Lennon-McCartney)
- Fake it till you make it.
- We will love you until you love yourself.
- You're either busy about livin, or busy about dyin; get busy livin.
- A man who cheats on his wife has the economy of screwing 2 women at the same time.
- We always seem to be concerned with what we don't have; let's be grateful for what we didn't get.
- There's a sucker born every minute.
- An eagle can see a fish swimming 10 ft. underneath the water from 10,000 ft. high; almost 2 miles.
- Goodwill Hunting, Inherit the Wind, Shaw shank Redemption, Man on Fire, Book of Eli.
- Enter The Dragon.
- When a codependent gets into a car accident, someone else's life passes in front of his eyes.
- God helps those who help themselves. Don't forget that.
- You know, if you worry about something, it won't happen. Odd superstition
- Stay able.
- And the great good God looked down on each His loving child; the Christian, Hindu, Muslim and
Jew, and loved them through the Gods they knew.
- Your mind is a vehicle for your soul; once it takes you there, it needs to be abandoned on the roadside.
- AA: on the job training.
- Chaos is an addictive chemical.
- Easy to decide, not easy to follow through.
- Chinese proverb: Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Thank you God for what you gave me, what you took from me, and what you left me.
- Please do me a big favor, don't get in the way of my pain; it's mine and I need it to grow.
- Only the shadow knows.
- You are becoming what you use to use to despise.
- Our primary purpose is to stay sober; our secondary purpose is to help others achieve sobriety.
- It is to embark on your journey, and arrive at the place you started, and see it for the first time.
- God changes things without changing things.
- If I got what I deserved, I certainly wouldn't be here.
- These three I need: the one who loves me, the one who hates me , and the one who is indifferent to me.
The one who loves me, teaches me compassion; the one who hates me, teaches me caution; the one
who's indifferent to me, teaches me independence.
- At some point, after all the work, pain, and prayer, I have to be OK!
- Just listen.
- Picasso painted like a child when he was a child, then he learned how to paint like an adult; it took him
50 years of reeducation to learn how to paint like a child again.
- Become like the child.
- The ABCD's of how not to listen: A) advise/analyze B) belittle C) compare D) deny, diminish, delve.
- Step Off: You will be guided by a great sense of awe; for the river of life in which you venture holds
the answer to all your longings, and a deep appreciation and reverence for all things.
- For you, the unlikely few who have chosen the path towards truth, welcome home.
- "Alas for those who cannot sing, but die with all their music in them." Let us treasure the time we have,
and resolve to use it well, counting each moment precious; a chance to apprehend some truth,
to experience some beauty, to conquer some evil, to relieve some suffering, to love and be loved,
and to achieve something of lasting worth.
- I asked God for strength that I might achieve; I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked God for help that I might do greater things; I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked God for riches that I might be happy; I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked God for power that I might have the praise of men; I was given weakness that I might feel
the need of God.
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life; I was given life that I might enjoy all things
I got nothing that I asked for, but everything that I hoped for. Almost despite myself my unspoken
prayers were answered. I among all men am most richly blessed. (Author unknown, circa 1860's)
- Step into the fear.
- Where in your body do you feel emotion?
- I am not the center of the universe, regardless of what I think.
- I am standing on a whale, fishing for minnows.
- You cannot make others happy, it is impossible; make yourself happy, at least one person will be.
- Your mind will always respond to your dominant belief. That's why our greatest fears become true
because that's what we think about most of the time. What you are afraid of is a belief whether you
realize it or not.
- Forgiveness is not letting anyone off the hook; it is not forgetting what happened; it is not something
you are giving someone else; you never have to see that person again; you are not forced to
associate with them; they don't have to become your friend; you are not losing anything; you are
not weak if you forgive; forgiveness has nothing to do with the person you are forgiving, it is a gift
you are giving yourself.
- To not forgive, and not forget is bitter; To not forgive and forget is unconscious; To forgive, and
forget is naive; To forgive and never forget is spiritual maturity.
- God brought me to AA and AA brought me to God.
- Hope is in the future.
- God is not some pinch hitter.
- Trust in God, clean house, help others. Pretty simple huh?
- The problem with therapy is that people view it as a consumer; I go, I pay, You give me sanity.
- The closest star, outside of the sun, which is a small star by comparison, is Alpha Centuri. It is
two and a half light years away. Two and half light years traveling at 186,000 miles per second.
That would be 11 million miles in one minute and 669 million miles in one hour. WOW, can
you comes close to understanding such a distance? Or fathom how vast the universe really is?
- Where is your joy?
- Forgiveness has nothing to do with the person we are forgiving.
- Without energy being consistently applied, all things disintegrate into chaos.
- God is felt experience, not a thought.
- Powerless is nor Helpless. Compliance is not Surrender. Acquiescence is not Acceptance. Honesty
is not Truth. Anger is not Resentment. Intuition is not Instinct. Faith is not Trust. Self worth is not
Self image.
- Serenity is not that all things are going well, serenity is the knowledge that all things are well, regardless
of how they are going.
- I have tried throughout my sobriety to get back to the faith I had the first day I walked in the door.
- I'd much rather live in the day; the past holds regret and remorse, the future holds apprehension and fear.
If I stay in the day, I can avoid them altogether.
- AA: turns a bad "no give a shit," into a good, "no give a shit."
- Socialism is great until you run out of other peoples money.
- All light resides in the dark.
- Never make money for money's sake.
- You make your own luck.
- Never set aside who you are to be successful.
- Find the work you love, and you'll never work a day in your life.
- Zelig
- Life is so complex, or is it?
- The only thing life offer you is an education; the lessons come everyday; pay attention.
- How can someone do only one 4th step?
- There are only 4 conditions of faith I can live under:
1. God exist, and I do believe.
2. God exists, and I don't believe.
3. God doesn't exist, and I do believe.
4. God doesn't exist, and I don't believe. Which one are you? Pick one.
- Yesterday's sobriety won't keep me sober today.
- Pink Floyds "Dark Side of the Moon" was #1 on the Billoards top 100 albums for just shy of 10 years.
The album that displaced Floyd was Michael Jackson's Thriller.
- Does God need me? Is there something He wants from me? He must need me, I'm still here.
- Should I help others at my expense?
- Character defects are survival mechanisms that aren't necessary any longer.
- There is a category of criminology called victimology. Sound familiar?
- "Spirituality of Imperfection" by Ernie Kurtz
- Are you addicted to struggle?
- It's all good. It's simply a value judgement.
- God watches us as we ride the bicycle of life.
- The path you choose must have heart, else it is useless.
- 2 interesting psychological pathologies are 1) fallacy of fairness, and 2) fallacy of control
- If the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, then you will see all things as a nail.
- Lessons taught, till lessons learned.
- Watch your sense of superiority that comes with helping others and watch your need to have them
weak.
- Nothing is certain. Security does not exist.
- God is not out there; God is in here.
- When Aldous Huxley knew he was dying, he suggested that they cut off his head and keep it alive
and he would tell them what it felt like. How's that for a philosophical pioneer.
- Say yes; yes to all of it.
- The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. (Wilde)
- The Cloud of Unknowing
- The only way out is through.
- Control is an illusion.
- Death is a beginning.
- Detach with love.
- Made a decision, over and over and over and over again.
- The older I get, the greater I was.
- It's never too late to be what you could have been.
- You do what you do, you get what you get.
- In the 1950's, which artist sold more records than Elvis? Believe it or not, Pat Boone!!!
- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond
measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I
to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child
of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let
our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we
are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (Nelson Mandela)
- If you hold a real weapon in your hand, you will feel its character strongly. It begs to be used. It
is fearsome. Its only purpose is death, and its power is not just in the material from which it is
made, but also from the intention of its makers. It is regrettable that weapons must sometime
be used, but occasionally, survival demands it. The wise go forth with weapons only as a last
resort. They never rejoice in the skill of weapons, nor do they glorify war. When death, pain,
and destruction are visited upon what you hold to be most sacred, the spiritual price is
devastating. What hurts more than one's own suffering is bearing witness to the suffering of
others. The regret of seeing human beings at their worst and the sheer pain of not being able
to help the victims, can never be redeemed. If you go personally to war, you cross the line
yourself. You sacrifice ideals for survival and the fury of killing. That alters you forever. That is
why no one rushes to be a soldier. Think before you want to change so unalterably. The stakes
are not merely one's life, but one's very humanity. (Thoughts of War: Deng Ming-Dao)
5000 years before Christ.
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