Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
If Bill (AA co-founder) had turned his concept of AA into a profit-driven entity, it would not have survived. It would have just been another “program” that eventually evolved into an artificial, lifeless vehicle of greed at the expense of real human suffering.
Monday, June 15th, 2009
What is manipulation? I think it’s when you purposefully do or say things to illicit a reaction that you believe will benefit you without regard to its impact on others. In other words, I want what I want to fulfill my needs at all costs.
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
From the chapter on Step 1 (p.21) – “Our admission of personal powerlessness finally turns out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.” This is true. I’m beginning to see that my false sense of power over all aspects of my life has been like a prison. In this prison, there is no true happiness and no purpose in life. It’s unbelievably easy to live in a prison and not even know it, especially when you’ve been there for as long as you can remember. This thought reminds me of Plato’s Cave…
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