quotes:

“It is not so much our friends help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”

— Epicurus

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I’m not super religious or anything; I just like the look of angels.

— Master Chief from the Halo series

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“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”

—

Audrey Hepburn

Quote + Thoughts

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action, while reason leads to conclusions.

— Donald Calne, noted neurologist

I have been pondering the misunderstanding that the mind is like a computer. Studies show our mind is an emotional tool. Processing information is secondary. This is where many in the recovery process get tripped up: they stay in their head. They forget to feel, and be in the moment. Ideation, fantasy, obsessive thinking, worry are the bars of mental prison.

This is why "enjoying one moment at a time" is so important.

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"What other people think of you is none of your business."

Lifted off someones mom.

This is great thinking for the co-depndant who is always concerned with what everyone else is thinking and feeling.

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“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”

~Shirley Chisholm

Don't forget Workahol. The chosen drug of the Great Depression.

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"One sticks one’s finger into the soil to tell by the smell in what land one is: I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What is this thing called the world? What does this world mean? Who is it that has lured me into the world? Why was I not consulted, why not made acquainted with its manners and customs instead of throwing me into the ranks, as if I had been bought by a kidnapper, a dealer in souls? How did I obtain an interest in this big enterprise they call reality? Why should I have an interest in it? Is it not a voluntary concern? And if I am to be compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I should like to make a remark to him. Is there no director? Whither shall I turn with my complaint?"

— Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition

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`Facts don't enter a world dominated by our beliefs.'

Marcel Proust

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To live, man must hold three things as the ruling values of his life: Reason—Purpose—Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge—Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve—Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man’s virtues…

— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. . ."

C.S. Lewis

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"Everything will be okay in the end. If it is not okay-it is not the end."

~ author unknown

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"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."

Max Planck

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“ Although I’m atheist, I defer to Jesus on beggar-related matters. He said, if a man asks for your coat, give him your cloak too... Jesus did not say: First, administer a breathalyzer test to the supplicant, or, first, sit him down for a pep talk on “focus” and “goal-setting.” He said: Give him the damn coat."

Stephen J. Dubner/Freakanomics

The Economics of Street Charity

via jackcanty

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If you're going through hell, keep going.

-Winston Churchill-

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“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Albert Einstein

While it may seem simplistic, I find this notion important to recovery. Folks trapped in neurotic and psychotic behaviors often continue to try the same thing over and over, denying that it is failing. To change your mind you have to change your thinking, to change your thinking you have to expose it to new thought.

"I continue to work on my ego. The need to control, conform and to judge are conventions and struggles that I work toward growing beyond. Inches at a time. I continue to use my faith, meditation, awareness and prayer to stomp on these leaches. Through love and faith in God all things are possible." Tom

I admire tom's transparency. I am aware of my control issues, but had not walked through conformity.

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"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."

George Bernard Shaw

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No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
-- Bill Cosby

via Mark O. Wilson

Song Quote:

"Take my love, take my land,Take me where I cannot stand... I don't care, I'm still free, You can't take the sky from me... Take me out to the black, Tell them I ain't comin' back... Burn the land and boil the sea, You can't take the sky from me... There's no place I can be
Since I found serenity, But you can't take the sky from me..."

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"Love is the skillful pilot for true public awareness of true public needs."

Beloved friend and child warrior Dennis Mansfield

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
--C.S. Lewis