“In His Own Individual Right”

“Spirituality is an awakening – or is it all the loose ends woven together into a mellow fabric? It’s understanding – or is it all the knowledge one need ever know? It’s freedom – if you consider fear slavery. It’s confidence – or is it the belief that a higher power will see you through any storm or gale? It’s adhering to the dictates of your conscience – or is it a deep, genuine, living concern for the people and the planet? It’s peace of mind in the face of adversity. It’s a keen and sharpened desire for survival.

It’s a man or a woman. It’s gratitude for every happenstance of the past that brought you to a moment of justice. It’s the joy of being a young man in a young world. It’s awareness – or is it realization of one’s capabilities and limitations? It’s concentration – or is it an easy sensing of the universe? It’s seeing a mystical power for good in each and every human being. 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 when you’re down past your last dime, and you know you still have something that money can’t buy. It’s wearing dungarees that feel like a tuxedo. It’s wanting to go home, yet being there. It’s a rocket ride that goes far beyond the world your eye can see. It’s looking at something that superficially is ugly, but radiates beauty. It’s a majestic skyline or a western desert. It’s a young child. It’s seeing a caterpillar turn into a butterfly. It’s the 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.

Don’t look back – you haven’t seen anything yet.

When people look at you and wonder what’s with you, the look in your eyes will answer them: “Because I can cut it!”

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.”

Attributed to a writer from NY, NY.

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“In His Own Individual Right”

“I finally began to separate the religious aspects of my life from A.A.’s spiritual program. Now the big difference to me is that religion is the ritual, and we all differ there, and spirituality is the way we feel about what we do. It’s about my personal contact with my personal Higher Power, as I understand Him.”

A Sober, Clean Day To All

Mark

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Higher Powers Are Personal

“Spiritual?”

Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they might mean to you.

From other members;

“Yes, I began with blind faith, but the proof of truth is that it works.”

“I learned in the Fellowship that if others could accept me and love me as I was, then I should love myself as I was – not for what I was, but for what I could become.”

Spirituality is “freedom – if you consider fear slavery. Peace of mind in the face of adversity. Gratitude for every happenstance of the past that brought you to a moment of justice. Patience in the face of stupidity. Feeling that you want to knock somebody’s head off – and walking away instead. Seeing a caterpillar turn into a butterfly.”

When people look at you and wonder what’s with you, the look in your eyes will answer them: “Because I can cut it!”

A Sober, Clean Day To All,

Mark

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Spiritual?