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Old 07-08-2014, 04:58 AM
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Originally Posted by NightsWatch View Post
I like that about Buddhism, the idea of "take what's useful". You don't have to subscribe full-on to a program in order to extract a few ideas and methods that resonate with you. You then put these little tools in your toolkit and extract another tool from another program or book or way of thinking that spoke to you. At the end of the day, you'll then have a toolkit that is custom made for you! To me, that is way more helpful than a one-size-fits-all model.
This is pretty much where I'm at right now on my journey...it'll be 2 mths on Friday. I find it's working a lot better for me to look at it this way, and grab pieces from all different ways to handle sobriety.
Plus - they say variety is the spice of life right?
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