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05-06-2008, 12:38 PM
I had heard about this site and thought I would add it to my tool kit. I started my new life on 12/04/06. I have nothing but gratitude for the 12 Steps,The Big Book, the alcoholics that show up at the meetings I go to and my sponsor. Here is something I read today that helped me understand something important about awakening. I hope it helps somebody else.
Spirituality
Spirituality is an awakening—or is it all the loose ends woven together into a mellow fabric? It’s patience in the face of stupidity. It’s feeling that you want to knock somebody's head off— and walking away instead…
It’s wearing dungarees that feel like a tuxedo. It’s wanting to go home, yet being there…. It’s an awareness that survival is a savage fight between you and yourself. It’s a magnetic pull toward those who are down and out. It’s knowing that even the bad times are good… The singular thing that is spirituality cannot be given to a fellowman by word of mouth. If every man is to have it, then every man must earn it, in his own way by his own hand stamped by the seal of himself, in his own individual right.
C. 1973 AAWS, Came to Believe p. 5 — 6
Spirituality
Spirituality is an awakening—or is it all the loose ends woven together into a mellow fabric? It’s patience in the face of stupidity. It’s feeling that you want to knock somebody's head off— and walking away instead…
It’s wearing dungarees that feel like a tuxedo. It’s wanting to go home, yet being there…. It’s an awareness that survival is a savage fight between you and yourself. It’s a magnetic pull toward those who are down and out. It’s knowing that even the bad times are good… The singular thing that is spirituality cannot be given to a fellowman by word of mouth. If every man is to have it, then every man must earn it, in his own way by his own hand stamped by the seal of himself, in his own individual right.
C. 1973 AAWS, Came to Believe p. 5 — 6