meditation

forcing solutions – a meditation

  Calvin: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don’t help. Hobbes: Well, you’ve done all you can do. Calvin & Hobbes I love this quote because, for one, it’s Calvin & Hobbes. And, two, it’s so true for my life now that I am in recovery. In the past, when I…

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Father – a meditation

  My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. — Jim Valvano I am a father. When my children were young, I tried to shape their values and their beliefs, in the hope that they would become people I could be proud of. As they grew, they…

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grace – a meditation

  There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us. Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life I think, deep down, when a situation happens, I always know…

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strength – a meditation

  Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. Sigmund Freud I have a fear of showing my weaknesses. I have a fear of letting others know when I have been less than perfect. I fear that my flaws will set me apart as “less than” and verify that I am not good enough. But…

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change – a meditation

  The secret to change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but building the new. Socrates Acceptance does not come naturally to me. By default, I am more likely to spend time going over all the mistakes I made over and over again in painstaking detail. I used to think…

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