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The essence of all growth is a willingness to make a change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 115

By the time I had reached Step Three I had been freed of my dependence on alcohol, but bitter experience has shown me that continuous sobriety requires continuous effort.

Every now and then I pause to take a good look at my progress. More and more of my garden is weeded each time I look, but each time I also find new weeds sprouting where I thought I had made my final pass with the blade. As I head back to get the newly sprouted weed (it’s easier when they are young), I take a moment to admire how lush the growing vegetables and flowers are, and my labors are rewarded. My sobriety grows and bears fruit.

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https://www.aa.org/daily-reflections

The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely.

Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters,
to everything on which it reflects.

And yet, for all that, it is the mind that is never seized by anything,
but is always ready to react on the spot to whatever it encounters next.

The mind that is still is the mind that never forfeits its freedom and is able to constantly keep rolling and rolling and rolling.

~ Soko Marinaga Roshi (1925-1995)

https://www.dailyzen.com/

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742 - 1799)

Many paths lead from
The foot of the mountain,
But at the peak
We all gaze at the
Single bright moon.

~ Ikkyu (1394-1481)

The imperfect becomes whole.
How true that is!
To become whole and
Return to the Source,
One must ever be in accord
With nature.
There is nothing in the world
So weak as water,
Nor anything strong enough
To overcome it.
The person of great wisdom
Is like water which,
Though benefiting all things,
Never strives.

~ Lao-tzu

Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountains and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.

Breathe out and let yourself soar to the ends of the universe; breathe in and bring the cosmos back inside.

Next, breathe up all the fecundity and vibrancy of the earth.

Finally, blend the breath of heaven and the breath of earth with that of your own, becoming the Breath of Life itself.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

@rookie54

I have an honest question for you; why do you keep copy/pasting this stuff into this thread?

@divegeester said
@rookie54

I have an honest question for you; why do you keep copy/pasting this stuff into this thread?

@suzianne said
Why do you keep knocking things that are better than you?

This is the best thread in this forum.

@divegeester said
@rookie54

I have an honest question for you; why do you keep copy/pasting this stuff into this thread?

@rookie54 said
what appears before yer eyes is my practice
what appears before yer eyes is my prayer
what appears before yer eyes is another obscurity
what appears before yer eyes is another analogy that does not mean anything
to anyone
except for me
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this is a collection of things of no value
this is a collection of things of great value
i read and reread this collection of ...[text shortened]... htly bossy.
~ @Kevin-Eleven
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there is one thing, greater than all the rest
and that is love

Ouch!

@rookie54

Skinny frog,
Don’t get beaten!
Issa is here.

Kobayashi Issa

Let love flow outward through the universe,
To its height, its depth, its broad extent,
A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.

~ Sutta Nipata Buddha

Never tell lies about another person.

Anon