FEAR ...
is a mile high
and
a mile wide,
but only paper thin.
Walk Through It!!!
(overheard in an AA meeting)
todAAy i AAm grAAteful & thAAnkful
for a good meeting about fear where we tied in the connection between fear, anger and resentment
to remember that unless and until I am entirely ready to have my HP remove my character defects, they will most likely always be there for me to use or practice
that I need to practice Step 6 daily (along with everything else)
that I just smiled and actually laughed when a plumber working upstairs knocked a 2'x3' hole in my ceiling, directly over my computer desk (while I was sitting at it!) LOL
for the first cool front of the season to hit Houston; it's wonderful to finally get a break from the heat
Those who want much, are always much in need.
-Horace
is a mile high
and
a mile wide,
but only paper thin.
Walk Through It!!!
(overheard in an AA meeting)
todAAy i AAm grAAteful & thAAnkful
for a good meeting about fear where we tied in the connection between fear, anger and resentment
to remember that unless and until I am entirely ready to have my HP remove my character defects, they will most likely always be there for me to use or practice
that I need to practice Step 6 daily (along with everything else)
that I just smiled and actually laughed when a plumber working upstairs knocked a 2'x3' hole in my ceiling, directly over my computer desk (while I was sitting at it!) LOL
for the first cool front of the season to hit Houston; it's wonderful to finally get a break from the heat
Those who want much, are always much in need.
-Horace
8 comments:
I love your quote about fear.
i know, i heard that 'mile high, mile wide, paper thin' thing, too. it made a lot of sense to me - thanks for reminding me of it.
Paper thin... could it be a piece of paper with the 4 columns on it?
I wrote it down in my book when I heard the fear thing.
Dear dAAve,
I am so impressed and PLEASED with your lack of anger about the hole in your ceiling.
I wonder whether it scared the poop out of your?
Just shows me how much the Program of AA works !
thanks. Love you
THE LUCIFER CONNECTION
The NAM 'Light' experience
Excerpt from chapter three in: A Catholic Response to the New Age Phenomenon by the Irish Theological Commission in 1994.
"New Age Movement" is abbreviated as NAM.
Bill Wilson:
My depression deepened unbearably, and finally it seemed to me as though I were at the bottom of a pit. I still gagged badly at the notion of a Power greater than myself, but finally, just for the moment, the vestige of my proud obstinacy was crushed. All at once I found myself crying out, 'If there is a God, let Him show Himself! I am ready to do anything, anything!' Suddenly the room lit up with a great white light. I was caught up into an ecstasy which there are no words to describe. It seemed to me, in the mind's eye, that I was on a mountain and that a wind not of air but spirit was blowing. And then it burst upon me that I was a free man. Slowly the ecstasy subsided. I lay on the bed, but now for a time I was in another world, a new world of consciousness. All about me and through me there was a wonderful feeling of Presence, and I thought to myself, 'So this is the God of the preachers!' A great peace stole over me and I thought, 'No matter how wrong things seem to be, they are right. Things are all right with God and His world.'"
Both the old Gnosticism and the present NAM use the occult to achieve their so-called 'new' spirituality. They proclaim that we are in a new age of the spirit, but the spirits they follow are dangerous and misleading. Marrs says that the NAM believes that the sun is a divine, living being, called the Solar Father. Lucifer is claimed to be the Solar Logos (Word), a god spirit appointed by the Solar Father to usher in the New Age through the Luciferic initiation of humanity. The source of the NAM teachings is Helena Blavatsky's two-volume work The Secret Doctrine. In Anthropogenesis (volume two), from pp. 506-518, she deals with the question of the identity of this Lucifer to which the NAM teachers refer. Is this entity what Christians call Satan? She says that 'the "Old Dragon" or "Satan" ... is that Angel who was proud enough to believe himself God; brave enough to buy his independence at the price of eternal suffering and torture; beautiful enough to have adored himself in full divine light; strong enough to reign in darkness amidst agony, and to have built himself a throne on his inextinguishable pyre.' Here she was quoting a famous cabbalist called Eliphas Levi, and she says that the definition is correct. But she adds that 'this devil is mankind'! 76 This has to be so for we are 'god' and this god is the source of good and evil. Both God and Satan are found within us. Later she shows that Lucifer is that Light that these initiates are seeking: 'the great magic agent ... astral light ... is that which the Church calls Lucifer.' She acknowledges that the Latin scholastics called this entity Satan. 79 Quoting Levi again she refers to Lucifer as 'the Astral Light ... which serves to create and destroy.... This Light therefore, inasmuch as it is devouring, revengeful, and fatal would thus really be hell-fire, the serpent of the legend; the tormented errors of which it is full, the tears and gnashing of teeth of the abortive beings it devours, the phantom of life that escapes them, and seems to mock and insult their agony, all this would be the devil or Satan indeed' (ibid.).
PEACE BE WITH YOU
MICKY
I can't compete with Mickey in terms of sheer volume of drivel...
...lmao @ plumber incident. Like the main quote and am looking at anger/fear myself. Whew!
It's nice not to be driven by fears. I still obsess but catch myself now and face the fears. At least I know where they are coming from. And that they aren't real.
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