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When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
It’s an inside job.
God never gives you more than you can handle…..so handle it!
Easy does it…but do it.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead…only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. ( Sir Winston Churchill)
Pain is the touchstone of spiritual growth. (Dick Lunsford)
Quit your bitchin’ and just get on with living’.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due. (William Inge)
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself. (A.H. Weiler)
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s this day to day living that wears you out. (Anton Chekov)
How does the program work?.......just fine. (Ed Way)
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. (Samuel Johnson)
Too much analysis can become paralysis.
The pursuit of spiritual growth is often like living in a cloud of unknowing.
God will provide the shovel, but I have to do the digging.
Never confuse motion with action. (Ernest Hemingway)
I must learn to accept that it is quite possible my whole purpose in life is to simply serve as a warning to others.
People will act like people, whether they drink or not. (Ed Way)
I am what I am at this moment…now what do I do…choose to change or stay the same?
I’m surveying the wreckage of my future. (Dick Lunsford)
Perhaps the best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. (Dean Acheson)
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. (Dean Acheson)
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. (John Stuart Mill)
It’s evolutionary not revolutionary.
GOD: good orderly discipline.
Thoughts + Feelings = Behavior.
Facts + Truth = Freedom.
FEAR: Face everything and recover.
FEAR: Forget everything and relapse.
HALT: Hungry, angry, lonely, tired.
Be on guard for my magic magnifying mind. (page 452, B.B.)
KISS: Keep it simple stupid.
Carpe Diem: Seize the day.
It’s God’s day, not mine.
Accept that where I am at this moment is exactly where I’m supposed to be.
Who owns the problem?
When things don’t go your way…don’t have a way. (Sandy Beach)
You may make your plans, but God directs your actions. (Proverbs 16:1)
Since God is directing our steps, how can anyone understand everything that happens along the way? (Proverbs 20:24)
“The spiritual life is not a theory: we must live it…we must carry the vision of God’s will into all of our [daily] activities…[I need to ask] How can I best serve you? Your will (not mine) be done.” (Extracts, pages 83 and 85, B.B.)
Kill self…this is not an independent study course; you can’t succeed without the help of others. (Sandy Beach)
It’s not about being dealt a great hand of cards… It’s about how well you play the cards you are dealt. (Dick Lunsford)
Misery is optional.
God doesn’t do windows.
If I’m stuck in my efforts to improve my spiritual life, I’m guilty of one of two things: (1) I’m doing something that I should NOT be doing, or (2) I’m NOT doing something I should be doing. (Francis X.)
If I think I can fix all my problems by myself, then where’s God?
“Go through the narrow gate, because the gate to Hell is wide and the road that leads to it is easy, and there are many who travel it. But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few who find it.” (Matthew 7-13-14)
“The more you talk, the more likely you are to find trouble. If you are wise you will keep quiet.” (Proverbs 10-19)
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
“My God must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3:30)
“I have the strength to face all conditions by the power that God gives to me.” (Philippians 4:13)
Be where you are.
Anger turned inward becomes depression.
I can’t think my way into good living, but I can live my way into good thinking.
This is a disease that conspires to separate you from your support base and those who support you…get you alone and then finish you off…it is hand to hand combat to the death. (Paul Haggerty)
Holding resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the object of your resentment to die. (Dick Lunsford)
Resentment is allowing someone you hate to live in your mind free of charge.
When you pray for removal of a resentment you have for another person, you are not praying for that individual… you are really praying for yourself.
“Vulneratus non victus” (Wounded but not conquered)
“Semel insanivimus omnes” (We have all been insane once)
“Reducto absurdum” (Reduced to absurdity)
“Argumentum ad absurdum” (Argument based on absurdity)
The attitude I choose to embrace becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
As I continue to grow along spiritual lines, I am learning to live life with unresolved problems as a part of my daily existence.
A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself. (John Stuart Mill)
I am responsible for the joy in my house.
Humility is the absence of arrogance.
I can’t change the wind, but I can adjust my sails.
The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the length between my knees and the floor.
Bidden or not bidden, God is present. (Carl Jung)
I refuse to be the first person to drop out of this run. (Dick Lunsford)
I’m on a journey to learn how to live “right sized”. (pg.30, 12&12)
Maturity (growth) is knowing that not everything that pops into my head should fall out of my mouth.
Although I’m not in charge, I have the responsibility / choice to take action and do “the next right thing”.
I have not received what I really deserve….I have gotten far better than I deserve. (Dick Lunsford)
I came…I came to…I came to believe.
I must learn to let go of self-serving grandiosity and obsessive self-centeredness.
I can’t…God can…let him do it.
Part of my problem is that I am an egomaniac with an inferiority complex…
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