12 Steps 1 God » principles

Step 12: the final destination or the beginning of the journey

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

I read this post and the comments on Mike L’s recovery blog:
http://mikelrecovery.blogspot.com/2009/06/steps-hidden-principles.html.
I think it’s always worth looking at both the denotative and connotative meanings of words, especially when those words are at the heart of a discussion. In this case, I was inspired by Mike L’s post to first look up the denotations (literal dictionary [...]

Are we the prisoners in Plato’s cave?

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…