TOPICS 10/12/25
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant evaporates on the spot.
-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91
EACH DAY A NEW BEGINNING
2)… there are two entirely opposite attitudes possible in facing the problems of one’s life. One, to try and change the external world, the other, to try and change oneself.
–Joanna Field
God grant us the courage to change what we can–ourselves. How difficult it is to let go of our struggles to control and change someone else. How frequently we assume that everything would be fine if only someone else would change. All that needs to change is an attitude, our own.
ONE DAY AT A TIME
3) “To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of a total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.”
–Erich Fromm
Whenever I experienced any kind of loss, I was always able to focus my attention on other things. Instead of feeling my own emotions, I focused on being strong for someone else whose loss I perceived to be greater than mine.
Because I have a program today, I don’t need to blot my emotions out with addictive behavior.
THERE IS A SOLUTION, BB. PG. 25
4) We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help.