Peace...
Redmayne
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Peace...
'Peace is the meeting of two souls in harmony,' wrote Terry Waite, the former envoy to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Who, in 1987 went to Lebanon to negotiate the release of some prisoners only to find himself a prisoner, spending long years in solitary confinement...
As, in recovery and 'returned to a society that once rejected me' see the AA literature, where I now find myself and following the precept of the Stoic philosophy of belonging to 'the community of mankind 'where, as Epictetus said,'We are all little souls dragging a corpse around.'
I find my soul being able to live in harmony with others in a manner which is better than anything I experienced in my drinking days, and you can't buy or fake that. Just as you can't buy or fake peace....no matter your race, class, gender, age or (dis)ability...
As, in recovery and 'returned to a society that once rejected me' see the AA literature, where I now find myself and following the precept of the Stoic philosophy of belonging to 'the community of mankind 'where, as Epictetus said,'We are all little souls dragging a corpse around.'
I find my soul being able to live in harmony with others in a manner which is better than anything I experienced in my drinking days, and you can't buy or fake that. Just as you can't buy or fake peace....no matter your race, class, gender, age or (dis)ability...
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