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We must each discover our own truth. It does not help us if those we love find their truth. They cannot give it to us. It does not help if someone we love knows a particular truth in our life. We must discover our truth for ourselves. We must each discover and stand in our own light.We often need to struggle, fail, and be confused and frustrated. That's howwe break through our struggle; that's how we learn what is true and rightfor ourselves.We can share information with others. Others can tell us what may predictably happen if we pursue a particular course. But it will not mean anything until we integrate the message and it becomes our truth, our discovery, our knowledge.There is no easy way to break through and find our truth. But we can and will, if we want to.We may want to make it easier. We may nervously run to friends, asking them to give us their truth or make our discovery easier. They cannot. Light will shed itself in its own time.Each of us has our own share of truth, waiting to reveal itself to us. Each of us has our own share of the light, waiting for us to stand in it, to claim it as ours.Encouragement helps. Support helps. A firm belief that each person has truthavailable -- appropriate to each situation -- is what will help.Each experience, each frustration, each situation, has its own truth waitingto be revealed. Don't give up until you find it -- for yourself.We shall be guided into truth, if we are seeking it. We are not alone.Today, I will search for my own truth, and I will allow others to do thesame. I will place value on my vision and the vision of others. We are eachon the journey, making our own discoveries -- the ones that are right for ustoday.
Melody Beattie ©

"Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness. In Aikido and, other martial arts, we sidestep our attackers force rather than resisting it. The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. Our power lies in remaining nonreactive. Forgiveness works in the same way. When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war that no one can win."
Marianne Williamson

AA Thought of the Day / Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. /As Bill Sees It, p. 173

You are capable of many wonderful things that you do not even know about. Decide to start discovering some of them. Outside the walls of your imagined limitations, there is a whole world waiting to be experienced. Allow yourself to venture into it. There is so very much you can do when you stop being so consumed with what you can't do. There are so many opportunities and possibilities to explore when you stop worrying about your shortcomings and disappointments. Let go of the small, limiting thoughts that revolve only around your ego. Make room for the big, expansive thoughts that enable you to experience life's magnificent abundance. There is so very much you can do, so very much you can be, so very much you can give. Choose to open yourself to the wealth of possibilities. Step outside the walls of your old assumptions. And take life to a whole new level.
Ralph Marston

From a victim state-of-mind we become needy. Neediness is a form of negativedependency that brings up all kinds of negative emotions such as resentment,jealousy, and anger. Not knowing how to nurture ourselves and take care ofourselves emotionally, we depend on others to do so. When they fail to doso, we rage. And oddly enough, even when they do so, we rage even more. Why? Because we know deep inside that our emotional health is not dependent on others, but ourselves. We know that our strength to move beyond the victim state comes from within. Deep inside we know that absolutely no one can have power over us unless we allow it.
Susan Ann Darley

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery