Quotes

[dwmoeller]

Courtesy is as much the mark of a gentleman as courage. Theodore Roosevelt

[MajestyJo]

PATIENCE



Patience is a Divine virtue and unfortunately, not only are we bad at this Divine high merit, but we also neglect it most foolishly.

Patience is God's power hidden in us to weather the teeming storms of life. If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the potency to turn your life into the sweetest joy.

Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure at most, precedes success. But once success is achieved your name becomes confidence and failures are forgotten.

Written in ISAIAH 40: 31 is, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength."

[MajestyJo]

Mankind's claim to superiority is mankind's supreme conceit. That is the point at which mankind proves his INFERIORITY. Animals don't need to make such ridiculous claims.

From my friend Carey in Texas

[dwmoeller]

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye

[MajestyJo]

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life
so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice".

Cherokee Expression

[dwmoeller]

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” - Albert Einstein

[dwmoeller]

“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.” Dr. Seuss

[MajestyJo]

Take a breath and hold it. Take another and hold, hold, hold. You can see that you can't live on the inhale alone. The inhale is the breath of the program bringing you life. The exhale is you working with others.

I inhale healing for my soul and exhale hope for others.

- Pocket Sponsor

[MajestyJo]

"Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" - Book

You must go within or you go without.

It was an inward journey. The longest journey they say we will ever take, from the head to the heart.

It certainly wasn't done in a fast car in overdrive, although it was tried that way, and we had lots of pile ups, and a lot of "go back to jail or home or whatever else that came along the way.

I guess, if you don't go within, the biggest thing you miss is the good orderly direction, you get lost. You have no inner knowing. So you are travelling in doubt and fear. So if you are out you have no faith and hope, so you are walking blind and have no way of knowing where you are going.

If you go within, you have fellow travellers to walk with you and you are not alone. If you look without, you get many opinions, a lot of confusion and total bedlum, leading you to confusion and and disruptive paths.

When you go within, the Light will show you the way. You are no longer fumbling around in the darkness. You are guided, and you are gently shown the way to go. I was told there is no right way or wrong way, there is only the way that is right for you.

[MajestyJo]

"Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" - Book

If you are in the wrong place, the right place is empty.

This reminds me of what my spiritual adviser said to me many years ago, if you don't know, the time is not right. When the time is right, you will know.

I have been a very intuitive person for about 13 years. My friend and advisor says, if something is in your way and it is blocking you from the way you would go, did you ever think that your HP was directing your life and wanted you to go another way.

Sometimes I would see someone from recovery or someone who had been recovery and chose to go back out. When that didn't happen, I asked her how come. She said, "Did you ever think that maybe there was someone the other way and it was best for you, not to see that person or have anything to do with their energy. Who knows what is happening over there? If you pray and ask for what is in your best interest, you are guided in the way the Universe wants you to go.

When I have followed this way of thinking, I have received many blessings. For me it is those small things, that turn out to be big things like meeting an old friend as I was coming out of the market and she was going in. Her son belonged to the same group as me and she would often visit. I think I spoke more with her after I left the group than I did while I was a member.

I like the quote, because if the place is empty, that means I can make another decision, turn around and go back to where I am meant to be, even if I am late. I can fill that spot and leave the place I was in for the person who needed that space.

What a thought provoking statement? Not sure if I am right in my own summation, although I believe that the Spirit lead me to AA.

I went to AA because that was where my denial was. I always knew I was an addict. I used many things, food, men, pills, work, computers, etc. It all goes back to the old question, "Am I an addict because I am an alcoholic?" or "Am I an alcoholic because I am an addict?"

It really doesn't matter to me, what I do know is that I need to be in a 12 Step Fellowship. I went to Al-Anon periodically at first, but it became my mainstay in later years.

It doesn't matter what room you put me in, I qualify. I know I used alcohol like I used other substances, especially my relationships. My thinking was, why try to beat them when you can join them. I didn't want to wear a label I put on others, so I tried to shut out my actions under the influence of alcohol. I came to realize, "I can't match them drink for drink and be sober, even though I took them home, could walk and drive a straight line." It was all self-justification.



Taken from a post I made on another site

[dwmoeller]

Give others a piece of your heart, not a piece of your mind.

[dwmoeller]

Patience is the key to paradise - A Turkish Proverb

[MajestyJo]

"It is while trying to get everything straight in my head that I get confused."
-- Mary Virginia Micka

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
-- Sylvia Plath

[MajestyJo]

Armed with the tools of recovery. I don't have to face the day alone!


Grateful addicts will never have a reason to pick up, lots of excuses but no reason!

Something I shared on another site.

[MajestyJo]

Life is like a river.
Let it carry you,
not knowing where
it will take you,
and you will journey
to amazing places;
Or, stay on the shore,
knowing for sure
where you will be,
and you will go nowhere.

- Source unknown to me