I have a plum tree … and every year it blooms. … it has put out its slightly pinkish blossoms without hesitation or haste. It has made no demands on me to admire it, but it has also done nothing to avoid my attention. Having Had a Spiritual Awakening, Al-Anon There is much beauty…

  It was the spring before we moved again, a list of what we must do on the refrigerator, when my daughter and I found a turtle in the road.… … At last I put my stick away and left him to decide which direction was best. If I forced him off the road he…

  Many of us find that as we practice treating others fairly, with love and respect, we ourselves become magnets for love and respect. …In All Our Affairs I remember before coming into the program, when someone was treating me in a way that I did not like, I’d get defensive and critical, or I…

  At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done, then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. -Frances Hodgson Burnett I love this quote because…

  The only way to release ourselves from the hold of these dark demons is to break the isolation and bring them into the light by sharing with others who understand. …In All Our Affairs, p32 I find that when I feel sad or destitute, I instinctively want to to close myself off from the…