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I am a product of Western Civilization. I occasionally joke that I am in recovery from Western Civilization. I am still occasionally sarcastic. But I am a product of my dominant culture and as much as I pretend to resist it that means that I am the product of a Judeo-Christian tradition.
I am also a [...]
Tags: Christ, Christ of Latter Day Saints, Christian, Christmas, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, conversion, Deepak Chopra, Episcopal, Jesus, Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, liturgy, love, Mormon, Mormon Church, nativity, Temple Square, vulnerable
It’s funny, the ideas that people get about the relationship between loving others and loving themselves. The conventional wisdom is that learning to love oneself is essential to loving others. Yet 12 step programs insist that we must place others ahead of ourselves in order to recover.
I was at a meeting the other night where [...]
Tags: asking for help, energy, inspiration, intuition, love, Recovery, sacrifice, Service, Willingness
I had an interesting and clarifing conversation with my sponsor regarding humility and humiliation. According to him, and I like this definition, I can work with this definition, humility is thinking of others more than I think of myself. Humiliation is doing something that is beneath me, for whatever reason. He said [...]
Tags: Courage, denial, Faith, Fear, God, Grief, humiliation, Humility, love, relationships, work
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