Snips

Many of us used to picked on ourselves unmercifully. We may have a tendency too pick on ourselves still.
"If I was really conscious, I wouldn't be doing that again... I should be further along than I am."
These are statements that we indulge in when we're feeling shame. We don't need to treat ourselves that way. There is no benefit.
Remember, shame blocks us. But self-love and acceptance enable us to grow and change. If we truly have done something we feel guilty about, we can correct it with an amend and an attitude of self-acceptance and love.
Even if we slip back to our old ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving, we do not need to be ashamed. We all regress from time to time. That's how we learn and grow. Relapse, or recycling, is an important and necessary part of the adventure. And the way out of recycling is not by shaming ourselves. That leads us deeper into codependency.
Much pain comes from trying to be perfect. Perfection is impossible unless we think of it in a new way: Perfection is being who and where we are today; it's accepting and loving ourselves just as we are. We are each right where we need to be.
Today, I will love and accept myself for who I am and where I am in my process. I am right where I need to be to get to where I'm going tomorrow.
Melody Beattie ©


It's not always easy to be a Good Samaritan. We may be called today to help someone in a difficult situation and it may be someone who is usually outside our comfort zone, someone who we might usually hold at bay, the disenfranchised from the circle of our love. Today, open to all the ways you are being called to help.
Mary Manin Morrissey


AA Thought for the Day / In AA we slowly learned that something had to be done about our vengeful resentments, self-pity, and unwarranted pride. We had to see that every time we played the big shot, we turned people against us. / 12 & 12, p. 47

"Soul consciousness arises when we stand facing in opposite directions at the same time - toward eternity and toward time, toward infinity and toward space, toward unity and toward complexity. We stand in that dualism without being dualistic, for in consciousness we can accommodate the opposites. We do this by identifying with both. This identification results in the experience of being an individual while at the same time being the whole, and finding no contradiction in this experience."
Andrew Schneider

If you can't do anything about circumstances, others' behavior or choices, you can change your own attitude and change your own responses. You can work within...face your own fears with courage. Work on yourself. There is an old Seneca Indian saying, "It's better to cover your own feet with leather than to try and cover all the rocks in the world." You are a victim only to the extent you ignore yourself, your own feelings, your own needs, your own thinking, your own beliefs and values.
Lloyd J. Thomas


"We live in a world of theophanies. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Life wants to lead you from crumbs to angels, but this can happen only if you are willing to unwrap the ordinary by staying with it long enough to harvest its treasure."
Macrina Wiederkehr

"With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life."
Doc Childre

“Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can’t go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.”
Rumi


Adventure is not outside a person. it is within.
David Grayson