Acceptance - Bill W (Co-Founder, Aa
Silver disk: Let me call you goddess –. 164 and More concordance. While the comment or advice of others may not be infallible, it is likely to be far more specific than any direct guidance we may receive while we are still inexperienced in establishing contact with a Power greater than ourselves. Then there will be illness and death. So at the outset, how best to live and work together as groups became the prime question. Brock, you wrote; What comfort in spiritually do you find? This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. As a compulsive overeater, I stuff my face rather than face my stuff. A. : A court-ordered restraining order, the pained look in the eyes of a child, the loss of one's family, home, car, employment—all things meaningful to life. Intentions can turn into manipulation when we don't make them clear. So can someone help me out, because it seems to me that if "pain is the touchstone of all spiritual progress", then shouldn't that mean something like "the quality of your spirituality is revealed when you are in pain"? It will bring you to a better place.
- Pain is the touchstone of all spiritual progression
- Pain is the touchstone of all spiritual progress karma initiation
Pain Is The Touchstone Of All Spiritual Progression
Tonight, of all nights, your shape is perfect, Your presence sublime. Then, too, there frequently has to be a right and realistic acceptance of grievous flaws within ourselves and serious faults within those about us–defects that may not be fully remedied for years, if ever. And this they did find, in measure. In the world about us we saw personalities destroying whole peoples. And you can go forward in peace. We are accepting their idea of what success should be. There are times the surface message bares little to no resemblance to the final message.
Pain Is The Touchstone Of All Spiritual Progress Karma Initiation
Essentially this is to ask for the resources of Grace by which we may make spiritual progress under all conditions. My evolution within A. The self-imposed crisis and the incomprehensible pain they talk about was the very thing that drove me into A. right on through to the doors of the Mill Valley Cabin Meeting. He eventually found relief from his depression as he became closer to God. Today, I am willing to face my discomfort, trusting that healing and release are on the other side. Others can help, but only if we lead. Or we may be so worried about who has control that we fail to receive the information we are being given. True learning comes – like true intimacy – when we have an open mind. We can also "accept" illness and death as certain evidence of a hostile and godless universe. It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. As we had once struggled and prayed for individual recovery, just so earnestly did we commence to quest for the principles through which A. itself might survive. All we need do is become quiet and listen to the voice of our heart. Using our imagination to our fullest potential, we can never fully grasp how much greater our life can and will be when we let God run the show. If I take the words of another person and rearrange them in my brain so they make better sense to me and I get a good or positive message out of it, then I think "mission accomplished".
About once remarked. Just as a breath can blow out a flame, a mean remark can cast a shadow across a brother or sister's heart. As we detach ourselves, separate from our own ego, we hear the other person better and grow more intimate. If I am to have serenity, I must STEP my way past emotional turmoil and its subsequent hangover, and be grateful for continuing spiritual progress. And we must keep in mind that no decision is ever wrong. My basic flaw had always been dependence on people or circumstances to supply me with prestige, security, and confidence. As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.