8th Step
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First of all, thank God for the steps! I wouldn’t be able to tell this story without them. I wouldn’t because I would be trapped in the story; sucked in to the familiar familial drama of the tree from which this nut fell.
Last Friday night I had dinner with my sister and her two [...]
Tags: 12th step, 1st Step, 4th Step, 5th step, 7th Step, 8th Step, 9th step, Acceptance, Brotherly Love, Compassion, Courage, Gates of Insantiy or Death, Honesty, Humility, Integrity, Justice, Pity! Patience! Tolerance!, Spirituality
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and [...]
Tags: 1st Step, 8th Step, Acceptance, Brotherly Love, God, Honesty, truth
“Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We [...]
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