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| Life the gift of recovery! Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Home is where the heart is
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| Icy intellectual mountains Quote:
An intellectual understanding of spiritual matters does not equal the vital spiritual experience we require to overcome alcoholism. Our very best thinking got us where we are now. We seek direct personal experience with our Higher Power through working the twelve steps.
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| where the light is Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada
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I pray and I am stronger. I think of loved ones that have passed away and I am stronger. I think of my kids and I am stronger. I have accomplished many things that I thought were impossible by doing this. Before I started doing the 12 steps, I never really acknowledged this as a higher power but it was always there. I used to think that I was overcoming obstacles on my own. I used to try to rationalize religion & the existence of God but never came to any real conclusion. Now, I realize that my higher power was with me all along and instead of taking it for granted or ignoring it, I embrace it. |
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I've watched a large number of people 'intellectualize' the program, and the steps ... without actually DOING them. all but less than a handful ... go back out.
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| Forum Leader Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Dallas, Ga. USA
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| ![]() It was a surprise to me when I found my childhood sunday School God of love and forgiveness alive and present in the rooms of AA. The Steps led me back to The Golden Rule. Recovery continues to be an unbroken circle of faith for me.
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| sobriety is my yoga Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: in the present moment
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for a few years, the intellectual genius that I am (joking) required that I attend Freethinkers AA so that I could sit around with other intellectual alcoholics and dissect the Higher Power concept to pieces. What I soon learned, and this is just for me personally, is that I was no happier, that I was driven more by intellectual insecurity than I was by intelligence, and that the spiritaul life is not a theory.It must be lived and experienced directly in order for it to be real. Today, I am at peace with acceptance of sunlight into my spirit. Don't need to know much more than that. Thanks for this topic.
__________________ i close my eyes and see clearly i stop trying to listen and hear truth i am silent and my heart sings i seek no contact and find union i am still and move forward i am gentle and need no strength i am humble and remain whole (ancient taoist meditation) |
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