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love, in the end – a meditation

    In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you love? How deeply did you learn to let go? — Buddha   In the time I’ve been in recovery, I have been learning what it truly means to give love and to receive it. As a young…

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being right – a meditation

    One of the secrets to gracious, conscious living is to choose what is right for you without making others wrong in the process. Jenifer Madson — Living the Promises     Why do I have an urge to be right? Perhaps more importantly, why do I need to force other people to “be right?” Why…

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becoming real – a meditation

    “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day … “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?” “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play…

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Trusting the process – Episode 17

What does it mean to “trust the process?” What is “the process?” Is it meetings? The Steps? Working with a sponsor? Reading the literature? Swetha, Spencer, and special guest Anne H share our experience, strength, and hope on these questions and others. We welcome special guest Anne H to the podcast. At the beginning, the…

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roll away the stone – a meditation

  In the tomb of the soul, we carry secret yearnings, pains, frustrations, loneliness, fears, regrets, worries. In the tomb of the soul, we take refuge from the world and its heaviness. In the tomb of the soul, we wrap ourselves in the security of darkness. Sometimes this is a comfort, sometimes it is an escape….

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