ALL OR NOTHING? (0)

Posted 29 January, 2008 in As Bill See's It

Acceptance and faith are capable of producing 100 per cent sobriety.  In fact, they usually do; and they must, else we could have no life at all.  But the moment we carry these attitudes into our emotional problems, we find that only relative results are possible.  Nobody can, for example become completely free from fear, anger and pride.

Hence, in this life we shall attain nothing like perfect humility and love.  So we shall have to settle respecting most of our problems, for a very gradual progress, punctuated sometimes by heavy setbacks.  Our oldtime attitude of “all or nothing” will have to be abandoned.

                                                                                            GRAPEVINE, MARCH 1962

THE REALM OF THE SPIRIT (0)

Posted 7 January, 2008 in Daily Reflections

In ancient times material progress was painfully slow.  The spirit of modern scientific inquiry, research, and invention was almost unknown.

In the realm of the material, men’s minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sorts of fixed ideas.  Some of the contemporaries of Columbus thought a round earth preposterous,  Others came near putting Galileo to death for his astronomical heresies.

Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable about the realm of the spirit as were the ancients about the realm of the material?

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We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him.  To us, the realm of spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek.  It is open, we believe, to all men.

                                                                                 ALCOHOLICS ANONONYMOUS

                                                                                  1.  P. 51

                                                                                  2. P. 52