"Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
129: The 1959 Shasta Airflyte
“What does AA’s “principles before personalities” really mean? It means we practice honesty, humility, compassion, tolerance, and patience with everyone, whether we like them or not.”
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Best of 2018’s Week 32
“I have come to realize that sounding my way into the world, to express who I am, must always come first. Since wanting to be thought well of never goes away, I always have to keep the reaction of others at bay long enough for my voice to make it the light…” – Mark Nepo
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128.01: Thoughts on Interlopers and Rumormongers
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127: Monkeys in the Middle
I’ve gone to lengths not to put people in the middle of my situation. I don’t want anyone else to carry my water.
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126: Grrr…
The pain will never go away. I will only find perspective for the pain. It is a part of me now. To hate the pain is to hate myself; to love myself is to love my pain.
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Best of 2018’s Week 31
As time passed, I grew to know many of the people around me better than they knew themselves, but in that process I lost myself. – Brene Brown, Braving the Wilderness
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125: Once a cheater…
“So often we want to take this behavior and now reduce the entire person to just that.” – Esther Perel
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…you don’t know what she’s going thru. She’s dealing with extreme anger and will be in that phase for quite awhile I’m sure…
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