WE CAN BECOME LOVABLE ONCE MORE -
"Other people in our
lives help us to develop
trust and loving attitudes,
we demand less and give
more. We are slower to anger
and quicker to forgive". "We
begin to feel lovable which
is a feeling totally alien
to our old egocentric
selves." (The Basic
Text, p. 97)
ACHIEVING EMOTIONAL STABILITY -
"My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive." "Let us, with God's [HP's] help, continually surrender these hobbling demands. Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then be able to Twelve Step ourselves and others into emotional sobriety." (The Language of the Heart, p. 238)
'Tis better
to have loved
and lost than ne-
ver to have lov-
ed at all.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) British poet
HP - Higher Power - is any power greater than oneself, like Nature, the Cosmos, or even the legal system.
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