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On Being Centered From Within
"Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul." – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161-180 A.D., wrote Meditations on Stoicism, considered one of the great books of all times (121-180 A.D.) Doesn’t it sometimes seem as if the world is spinning out of control around us? Do [...]
A New Way of Looking at Mistakes
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." – James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, best-known for Ulysses (1882-1941) Let’s face it. Everybody makes mistakes. It doesn’t matter if we’re the head of a corporation or living off the [...]
Feel With Your Heart
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." – Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer, the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, went on to inspire millions, depicted in The Miracle Worker (1880-1968) Let’s [...]
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 [...]
