Every person in the AA program who’s successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.
The answers are never ‘out there. ’ All the answers are ‘in there, ’ inside you, waiting to be discovered.
When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: “This is for my benefit.
You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea.
A relationship is like a garden. To create a condition that will cause your plants to thrive and produce abundantly, you must weed, water, fertilize, and care for the plants in your garden. You must also know about the special needs of the plants you’re caring for. Some need more or less light than others, some need more or less water than others, and some need special fertilizers.
Take a few minutes now and see your current circumstances- your physical condition, your emotional condition, your possessions, your financial condition, where and how you live, your relationships, the situations surrounding your life, and the way you believe other people see you- as mirrors showing you “Who You Are.
If those underlying conditions aren’t treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we’ll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That’s the primary reason there is such a high rate of relapse among people who have become dependent of alcohol and addictive drugs. It has little to do with alcohol and addiction themselves and almost everything to do with the original causes that created the dependency.
The reality is that the quality of your relationship depends mainly on one thing: you.
In the eyes, heart, and mind of the one you love and who you want to love you, you will become, in essence, a new person.
The way to heal your relationship is to look for the underlying conditions in yourself and in your partner that have caused your relationship to go off track and then to seek out the guidance you need to heal yourself. The Laws of Love will give you that guidance.
The challenges and changes you meet are, in effect, hand delivered to you by a generous, loving Universe for the purpose of making you stronger and wiser.
Once you look at your problems as “workout situations,” they take on a whole new aspect.
If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship.
Those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go.
If you are having trouble in some areas of your life or are feeling a bit of unhappiness, that could be because some of what you currently believe about life is not in keeping with the laws that govern our cosmos, one of which is that everything that occurs in your life will ultimately be of maximum benefit to you .
You are not your body.
Mentally focus your attention on the part of you that needs healing. Now slowly take a deep breath, slowly filling your lungs to capacity while you send the oxygen to the part of you that needs healing. Now slowly breathe out, visualizing the ailing part being healed.
The way to peace is to be peaceful.
You suffered, not realizing that the events were part of the plan to give you strength, wisdom, and good fortune.
An event is just an event. How you respond to the event determines its outcome in your life.
When we use our mind, not our brain, to think, to imagine, to plan, to wonder about existence, we are drawing upon the Taoversal consciousness that streams through us.