LEAVING THE PAST WHERE IT BELONGS -
"Some of us were abused. We may have been victims of incest or rape. We may have had terrible childhoods of deprivation and neglect. Experiences like these may have led us to inflict the same abuse on others." "Though painful and sad, the past cannot be changed." (The Basic Text, p. 33)
PUTTING IT ALL IN PERSPECTIVE -
" ... his character defects are probably not more numerous or worse than those of anyone else in A.A. This the sponsor promptly proves by talking freely and easily, and without exhibitionism, about his own defects, past and present. This calm, yet realistic, stocktaking is immensely reassuring." (12 & 12, p. 52)
"As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings, With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart ... . This is called a sublime abiding here & now."
-excerpt from Buddha's Metta Sutta (563-483 B.C.) spiritual leader
psychologist
Kama, Kama, Kama, Kama, Kamala for President
She just in time, She just in tiiiime
Love and Unity power the American Dream
Red, White and Blue; Red, White and Bluuue
Sung to the tune of Karma Chameleon by Boy George
HP - Higher Power - is any power greater than oneself, like Nature, the Cosmos, or even the legal system.
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