Be clear with yourself and others on what your intentions are. Recently in a meeting someone shared, "pain is the threshold of spiritual growth". From my distress I called upon the Lord; The Lord answered me and set me in a large place. I drank against the pain until, finally, the alcohol stopped working. Touchstones need not be painful. M. Scott Peck Quotes About Pain. Going it alone in spiritual matters is dangerous. Then only could I be free to love as Francis had loved.
Who are the people we aren't at peace with? 's can agree with him. If we lean away from spiritual values, our actions will become insignificant or unimportant. You got my attention! " Our goal in recovery is to make us feel comfortable, peaceful, and content. Most of all, we seek to help them rise to what for most is the supreme challenge of their lives, by developing and enjoying their unique personalities to the fullest. I find comfort in the fact that I am not a body and so pain is not real. Also it was probably the pain that leads a person to surrender and enter recovery. Enabling emerging growth. Joined: Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:28 pm. Paradoxes: "Suffer to Get Well. For instance, we might start dating someone, and it's our intention to eventually marry. We look for a guide, a leader, to direct our path to physical and spiritual survival.
Hold your face up to the Light, even though. Finally I experienced my own truth. The same type of reasoning can be used to distinguish necessary psychic pain from unnecessary psychic pain. Sometimes our intentions are less than conscious, hidden right below the surface. Peace is the result of righteousness. Pain is the touchstone of all spiritual progress or instructions. It is always worthwhile to consider how grossly that good word acceptance can be misused. The moment we were able to fully accept these facts, our release from the alcohol compulsion had begun. If that makes any sense? Incense burns away, as the dark night deepens, And my robe is a single fold, as white dew thickens. When such a brand of gratitude is repeatedly affirmed and pondered, it can finally displace the natural tendency to congratulate myself on whatever progress I may have been enabled to make in some areas of living. We are accepting their idea of what success should be.
It is never necessary to feel shame over feeling pain. "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Given all that I have signed up for, been handed and survived... We now know that we do not have to run away, nor ought we to again try to overcome adversity by still another bull-dozing power drive that can only push up obstacles before us faster than they can be taken down. And I could do the above - pretty much every fucking time except for the high emotional state that accompanies the above. The program is not something we pick up and put down when we feel like it. Then we respond with "Yes, but…". Whenever I fall under acute pressures I lengthen my daily walks and slowly repeat our Serenity Prayer in rhythm to my steps and breathing. What happens when my heart gets smashed into bits - lots of psyche pain. This Evenings Reading. Pain is the touchstone of all spiritual progress reference bws. We are strong enough to survive discomfort and temporary feelings of emotional pain. It is partly what I believe as well although I can't say what the intention of the writers was. Many of us failed simply because we were alcoholics and could do no better. We also were stubborn when anyone tried to help us.
To what dignity are the chosen elevated when the brilliant courtiers of heaven become their willing servitors! The 12 Steps are the AA program of recovery from alcoholism. Some of why it ended was because of me and some of why it ended was because of them. "How oft do they with golden pinions cleave. PAIN IS THE THRESHOLD OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH. There are times the surface message bares little to no resemblance to the final message. Further he had to learn 'detachment with love' in his dealing with other alcoholics as Al Anon taught realizing that "Things which are primary to me (even for the good of AA) are unfulfilled. It is during the busy times that we especially need to remember our priorities. Herein is comfort for the sorely tempted ones. Today I am much more sensitive to pain and suffering. Finish your business with people. We neither ran nor fought.
Today, I am willing to face my discomfort, trusting that healing and release are on the other side. Like it or not (and I still do NOT like it) I just have to feel the feelings and TRY to drop the shitty story that seems to accompany any new script I write. That is our goal after all. The man with three days has personal experience for the man with three hours on how to get through one more day without drinking. I cannot fathom a time when I won't do this. One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. A. Grapevine Inc. have no objection to the use of this material in the. Pain is the touchstone of all spiritual progress images. Thanks to the terrific beating my alcoholism administered, came the deep quality and principle of willingness.
My evolution within A. Against foul fiends to aid us militant! Or we may be so worried about who has control that we fail to receive the information we are being given. The glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ yields us heaven below, and it will be to us the heaven of heaven above. There are two types of pain, necessary pain and unnecessary pain. We need to be aware our stubbornness.
This is why we treasure our "Serenity Prayer" so much. Am I always trying to dominate the conversation? Today, October 3rd, marks one year since my last drink. Seriously, I could just write myself a different story that does not require so much suffering... For example, If I am dating someone and it ends it does not really matter if I end it or they end it because either way I will suffer. Into what communion are we raised since we have intercourse with spotless celestials! Action for the Day: Today, I'll work at accepting my stubbornness. In the Twelve & Twelve it states the following on page 93: "Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. I don't think they ever meant spiritual pain - but that angst that we feel when we are to the point of desperation what we need to change or die. Brock, you wrote; What comfort in spiritually do you find? And why does it feel like when I am in pain that it will never end? Then, my soul, it is not needful for thee to sin, for Jesus was a man, and if one man endured these temptations and sinned not, then in His power His members may also cease from sin.
Bill W wrote a beautiful piece on acceptance in the book 'Language of the Heart' (March 1962): ONE way to get at the meaning of the principle of acceptance is to meditate upon it in the context of AA's much used prayer, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Then discover what you need to finish. Which given the number of other things, was not really all that much time... Did I really believe that the taco would never end?
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