I come to points on my path toward soulfulness when I am faced with letting go of old resentment and hurt. One of the major blocks to moving beyond this pain is my desire for retribution. I want to make the person who hurt me suffer as I feel they made me suffer. Unfortunately, though,
Today I can allow a Higher Power to play an active and a practical role in my life. When I let go, I begin a chain reaction within my psyche. It is as if one thought form is connected with another, so when I make a small beginning by releasing my grip on one thought,
Going within can be terrifying; to be willing to truly be still and with my self is not easy. Because it can be such a despairing feeling to go within and not find what I need, rather than tolerate the emptiness I race headlong into the acquisition of more of what I think will fill
What I endeavor to do with my day, what I can conjure up in my inner vision, how I perceive the world in which I live: these are what give my life its unique meaning. The meaning in my life is the meaning it has to me. Life does not necessarily have intrinsic and specific
Today I see that I cannot really forgive while I am holding on to anger. I try for forgiveness because I know that ultimately it will give me freedom but when I come near to it, what comes up for me is anger. My rage is deeper than my ability to forgive. That is all
The kind of anger that I use as a hiding place is largely unconscious. Acting it out is simply another way to keep it unconscious or to not feel it. When I get triggered, I blame someone else; I see the other as responsible for my bitterness. My unconscious is saying,
Today I accept that each time I grow or change, somewhere pain will be present. I have greatly accelerated my growth process in recovery. Issues that I may have accumulated over a period of decades I am dealing with in a much shorter time frame. The pain of confronting myself in these ways will be
I will live the life I have. All the lessons that I need to learn are spiritually present within the situations of my day. Life and spirit are one. A block in my life can be seen as a block in my spirit. When I use the circumstances of my life as grist for the
Today I can allow myself to feel normal. The deep reservoir of pain and the intense feeling of a lack of safety that I carried around inside of me made me feel separate from other people. It gave me the feeling of being different, of watching the rest of the world through a dusty glass.