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Possibilities
"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes." – Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist, best-known as the poet who wrote Leaves of Grass (1819-1892) What’s ahead of us? Some of us in recovery, especially if we’re in early recovery, cannot see much farther than the present. There’s nothing wrong with [...]
Life is a Miracle
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." – Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist, creator of the theory of relativity (1879-1955) Do we believe in miracles? For some of us in recovery, the very fact that we [...]
How Dreams Help Us Grow
"We grow great by dreams. All great men are dreamers." – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, best-known as the World War I President (1856-1924) We’ve all got to learn how to allow ourselves to dream if we’re going to expand our horizons. Does this sound like an impossible task? It shouldn’t, and [...]
What Makes You Happy?
"It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." – Dale Carnegie, American writer, lecturer, and developer of courses in self-improvement, public speaking, salesmanship and interpersonal skills, author of How To Win Friends and Influence People (1888-1955) Chances [...]
On Belief and Being
"We are what we believe we are." – C. S. Lewis, novelist, essayist, literary critic, best-known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia (1898-1963) Many of us don’t really like ourselves too much. This is most notably the case when we first enter recovery, carrying with us all the baggage from our past and [...]
