If you had to sum up your life philosophy in one sentence, what would it be? View all responses Live each day to the fullest. Upon awakening, I need to send a petition to God – in other words, a prayer, to set the tone for the day. Before scrolling, before checking numbers, before going …
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Step 11- The Prayer of St. Francis
A. Yes. I believe in karma* I believe that it better to Comfort than to be Comforted. Karma* In Buddhism, karma is a kind of natural law, like gravity, that explains the causes and effects of what we think, say, or do. The Sanskrit word karma means “action,” and in Buddhism, it refers to volitional or …
Explore spiritual growth through prayer and humility in Step 6 and 7 of personal development. Embrace change and character growth.
Step 6: Are you now willing to have God remove from you all the things which you have admitted are objectionable? Yea or nay. If you answered Yes without reservations, you just did Step Six. Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our defects. Read aloud the Seventh Step Prayer: “My Creator, I am now …
Making Amends: Steps Eight and Nine of Recovery Journey
Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. This and the next two Steps are concerned with personal relations. Learning to live with others is a fascinating adventure. Obstacles: reluctance to forgive; non-admission of wrongs to others; purposeful forgetting. Necessity of exhaustive survey …
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Confronting Isolation: The Power of Step Five
This image kinda shocks me, but it also makes me laugh. Am I hiding around the finger-of-fate-in-fear, or just the clear point of the finger-of-fuck-you? Leave me alone. Question mark with exclamatory defiance. This is how I try to reconcile the beating around the bush of looking at myself (personal inventory of the Fourth Step) …
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Self-Forgiveness and Hope in Sobriety
It’s amazing how closed-minded many newcomers to AA are based on their past experiences with religion or somewhat vague with no real daily practice or moral compass instilled through their family of origin, or with church leader, or school counselor. It is at this early step that an individual’s belief systems come into the light. …
The iPod Shuffle
I’d have to say it was the iPod Shuffle. No heavy armband or having to hold a phone and buy expensive earbuds that easily get misplaced: Songs you can upload or replace when you click onto Music, and carry with you in a miniature device–With simple controls you can use by touch without having to …
Space-X or Space-Q?
Would we like an IPO that pays dividends and has a long-term outlook on earning per share that will never enter bubble territory or collapse earning per share? Wouldn’t this make us happy? Welcome to Space Q. Our quantum creative reality that isn’t on the Nasdaq or ever become listed on the S&P. Just like …
The Proverbial Proverbs – Part Two
I asked AI to respond to the recent WordPress writing prompt asking, What Proverb do you disagree with? I didn’t ask about any contradictions, but just asked Chrome Gemini AI to name the top three sayings: It came up with, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover,” “Actions speak louder than words,” and “Better late …
The Proverbial Proverb
Here’s the phrase, “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.” written in Biblical Hebrew. I had asked JetPack AI for the phrase, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” and it gave me this. By many accounts of my youth and with my family, the AI response was …
