Month: July 2013

expectations – a meditation

  “When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea…

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ego – a meditation

  The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Eckhart Tolle When I was early in my program of recovery, someone once told me that I am not my feelings, I am not my thoughts. I remember thinking “what the heck does that mean??” I had not yet understood…

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meditation – a meditation

  Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh   Prayer and meditation is recommended in the program by way of Step 11. However, meditation is not something that comes easily to me. Growing up, I…

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One Day at a Time – Episode 34

Do you find yourself spending too much time worrying? Do you fear the future or resent the past? How can you take care of yourself by living “One Day at a Time”? How do we understand this slogan as a tool for caring for ourselves? What does “one day at a time” mean? We find…

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useful – a meditation

  At the beginning of this tumor odyssey, a voice protested to me one sad evening This isn’t the way the story was supposed to end. Almost immediately, another voice said But how do I know how the story was supposed to end? Maybe this is exactly the way it was supposed to end. Because,…

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