For each cookie she took, the man took one too.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2ba20EcA2XHB3DzzL2Zd63yu8qMvi04LhHxqNZD9RhF21tmro7kpcttP_S6sTJ6TCgqpZ2uaboBgNM1-455cDQMs-mqgXhAnxgQGPFpPuYIaob4VPmHpscDp-0fFBOwSrrzHEAjgHSg/s1600/10710919_10152757192388615_3531926343357915073_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2ba20EcA2XHB3DzzL2Zd63yu8qMvi04LhHxqNZD9RhF21tmro7kpcttP_S6sTJ6TCgqpZ2uaboBgNM1-455cDQMs-mqgXhAnxgQGPFpPuYIaob4VPmHpscDp-0fFBOwSrrzHEAjgHSg/s320/10710919_10152757192388615_3531926343357915073_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A young lady was waiting for her flight in a boarding room of a big airport. As she should need to wait many hours, she decided to buy a book to spend her time. She also bought a pack of cookies. She sat down in an armchair, in the VIP room of the airport, to rest and read in peace. Beside the armchair where the packet of cookies lay, a man sat down in the next seat, opened his magazine and started reading. When she took out the first cookie, the man took one also. She felt irritated but said nothing. She just thought, "What the nerve! If I was in the mood, I would punch him for daring!" For each cookie she took, the man took one too. This was infuriating her but she didn't want to cause a scene. When only one cookie remained, she thought: "Ah... what this abusive man do now?" Then, the man taking the last cookie, divided it into half, giving her one half. "Ah! That's too much!" she thought. She was too much angry now! In a huff, she took her book, her things and stormed to the boarding place. When she sat down in her seat inside the plane, she looked into her purse to take her eyeglasses, and to her surprise, her packet of cookies was there, untouched... unopened. She felt so ashamed! She realized that she was wrong... she forgotten that her cookies were kept in her purse. The man had divided his cookies with her, without feeling angered or bitter, while she had been very angry, thinking that she was dividing his cookies with him. 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For each cookie she took, the man took one too.

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I lost the two dollars

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="zemanta-img"> </div> </div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMVzdUkjFT9ljVMoIsfj-GJe63M9IqBBdW61IEC_CMJKlT5cmbpCHCyA8vXPSuI11Im4boGcpXmtyNk7d7Ivzal5H87xtBCHoSbD0a9uDK-_EQm_3rSldm4GK0eY9hngg-tJuhnPqY9o/s1600/1-quotescover-JPG-80stages.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMVzdUkjFT9ljVMoIsfj-GJe63M9IqBBdW61IEC_CMJKlT5cmbpCHCyA8vXPSuI11Im4boGcpXmtyNk7d7Ivzal5H87xtBCHoSbD0a9uDK-_EQm_3rSldm4GK0eY9hngg-tJuhnPqY9o/s1600/1-quotescover-JPG-80stages.jpg" width="295" /></a></div> A man and his wife went to visit friends in another part of the country and were taken to a racecourse. Fascinated by the sight of horses chasing one another around a track, the two of them kept betting all evening till they had no more than two dollars left. The following day the man prevailed upon his wife to let him go to the course alone. There was a horse with a fifty-to-one odds on it in the first race. He bet on the horse and it won. He put all the money he won on another long shot in the next race and again he won. He kept doing this all evening and his entire earnings came to fifty-seven thousand dollars. On the way back home he passed by a gambling den. An inner voice, the same that seemed to have guided him in his choice of horses, said, "Stop here and go in." So he stopped, went in, and found himself standing in front of a roulette wheel. The voice said, "Number thirteen." The man put the entire fifty-seven thousand on number thirteen. The wheel spun, and the croupier announced, "Number fourteen." So the man walked back home with nothing in his pocket. His wife called out to him from the porch, "How did it go?" The husband shrugged his shoulders. 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These are those who ooze with false piety, having a false conception of themselves as supremely virtuous.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/aa-spiritual-kindergarten-bill-wilson.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/noimg_72_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/aa-spiritual-kindergarten-bill-wilson.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">AA The Spiritual Kindergarten: Bill Wilson's attitude about spirituality is as refreshing today as it was back in the 30's.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/influences-of-50-shades-of-grey-fifty.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/noimg_91_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/influences-of-50-shades-of-grey-fifty.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Influences of 50 Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Of Grey Dangerous or Exciting</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/science-is-not-only-compatible-with.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/177150389_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/science-is-not-only-compatible-with.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>

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The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3cfvzBE9XBtecL_wunykyTLEcS7ORx1sY7gJgwm1XfsLMwsu88xfB7zwkG68Z3_DPg6GGq6ZrPk6QF_7VqkviWYtS6SqF5GAmrR6X88GG-pOyglo2O0EvDxiEIGOUlqG2UbfkY7xbOBk/s1600/1-liberstion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3cfvzBE9XBtecL_wunykyTLEcS7ORx1sY7gJgwm1XfsLMwsu88xfB7zwkG68Z3_DPg6GGq6ZrPk6QF_7VqkviWYtS6SqF5GAmrR6X88GG-pOyglo2O0EvDxiEIGOUlqG2UbfkY7xbOBk/s1600/1-liberstion.jpg" width="315" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"What, concretely, is Enlightenment?"</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master.</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?"</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is."</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"What's the difference?"</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around."</span><br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/we-may-be-first-generation-to-have.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/noimg_107_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/we-may-be-first-generation-to-have.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">we may be the first generation to have turned back the epochal clock - to have gone backward intellectually from advanced modes of thinking into old modes of belief.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/just-try-living-your-life-for-others-on.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/noimg_83_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/just-try-living-your-life-for-others-on.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">12 Steps try living your life for others on a daily basis, in little and big ways, and watch what kinds of changes begin happening in your life. 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The realisation of the being in the wilderness is what drove much of our addiction. But when I got sober the wilderness was still there.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic0enkgK3dc_9Wj3fdgxLiEXP_FpKFpfTQyw34crthQ5Yetu4FapubHvWYAT1_mxaLV653bjWdaGWNdRM8fSg1Q4fTJMFyhdVA9USFfdzX2UQd8hqCC-s8glp7zbE2GD6xZPhhOXlTF0E/s1600/Stages+Quote3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic0enkgK3dc_9Wj3fdgxLiEXP_FpKFpfTQyw34crthQ5Yetu4FapubHvWYAT1_mxaLV653bjWdaGWNdRM8fSg1Q4fTJMFyhdVA9USFfdzX2UQd8hqCC-s8glp7zbE2GD6xZPhhOXlTF0E/s1600/Stages+Quote3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>  I had a hunch early on that it was there – I could feel the fear, anxiety and desperation. It was my addiction that attempted to cover it up, numb it out, promise me that I could find an “easier softer way”. But when I got sober the wilderness was still there. Sobriety does not give us a free pass through the wilderness, it makes available the spiritual tools to go through this terrain and it re-forms us if we let it. But it is not an easy journey. It exposes what I can only characterise as a despair that runs underneath our lives.</div> </div> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul" style="clear: left;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/im-not-retired-alcoholic-im-defeated-one.html" target="_blank">I'm not a retired alcoholic, I'm a defeated one.</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/schadenfreude-addiction-enjoyment-of.html" target="_blank">Schadenfreude Addiction enjoyment of someones relapse</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/thirteenth-stepping-refers-to-situation.html" target="_blank">Thirteenth stepping refers to a situation where an experienced AA member begins a sexual relationship with a newcomer.</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/schadenfruede-addiction-in-recovery.html" target="_blank">Schadenfruede syndrome Addiction in Recovery</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/zombie-recovery-addiction-can-be.html" target="_blank">Zombie Recovery Addiction can be a terminal disorder.</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/07/addiction-can-be-seen-as-range-of.html" target="_blank">Addiction can be seen as a range of mental illnesses</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-man-who-sponsored-bill-wilson.html" target="_blank">The man who sponsored Bill Wilson</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/addiction-is-now-recognized-as.html" target="_blank">Addiction is now recognized as a treatable disease.</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/one-of-worst-things-that-individual-can.html" target="_blank">One of the worst things that an individual can do in early recovery is jump headfirst into romance.</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/6-steps-for-spiritually-challenged.html" target="_blank">6 Steps for the Spiritually challenged</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> </ul> </div> </div>

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Spiritual kindergarten begins with the admission that we are in trouble.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"> </span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj6Ai045B7UJxZk31ALXsoL-a0stRl_6d2qm9UfVxyfwG6LEsTcD7pNav6e5PVlJhJHn3tSldncBswRAQIL7NgxrfMgTzfhk3tBomeUtMPoVg77Etn3bfUbetqlQJ02JhiATQi1gjhIpc/s1600/1-child+within789.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj6Ai045B7UJxZk31ALXsoL-a0stRl_6d2qm9UfVxyfwG6LEsTcD7pNav6e5PVlJhJHn3tSldncBswRAQIL7NgxrfMgTzfhk3tBomeUtMPoVg77Etn3bfUbetqlQJ02JhiATQi1gjhIpc/s320/1-child+within789.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Spiritual kindergarten begins with the admission that we are in trouble.  we acknowledge this, we are ready to begin our spiritual journey toward peace and serenity. Admitting the truth is not something we can do casually. For most of us it represents a major change in business-as-usual. We have learned pretence, evasion, and denial. Now we must learn to admit the truth, and live in the truth.</span></div> </div> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-child-within-has-been-left-alone.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/364124473_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-child-within-has-been-left-alone.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The child within has been left alone for so long.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://mindofcalm.blogspot.com/2015/12/at-ten-stages-we-recognise-that.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/364062639_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://mindofcalm.blogspot.com/2015/12/at-ten-stages-we-recognise-that.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">At the Ten Stages we recognise that meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others is the healing balm of our practice.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/12/half-way-through-course-after.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/364124457_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/12/half-way-through-course-after.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Half way through the course after meditations we will start practicing using our newly found intuitive voice</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; 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In The Ten Stages many of us are spiritually anorexic.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="article-header" style="display: table; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 750px;"> <h1 class="title entry-title" style="color: #333333; display: table-cell; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 670px;"> </h1> </div> <div class="article-content entry-content" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 10px auto 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <div dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <div class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <div class="zemanta-img"> </div> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSV8WHTxbT8VBCJmhZj1mJ4l3VW4oM9SsDVEqJ5-yt8OUMYRsPk5Epe5Sr7HxxAg6rc2AhyU6PUkuBkUrC3KQpJiZ9hisC3d2ttbojNrrYo4vdozz-f8jN29OowbjxISh-2GX09Z1TnfTE/s1600/CHILD+WITHIN346.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSV8WHTxbT8VBCJmhZj1mJ4l3VW4oM9SsDVEqJ5-yt8OUMYRsPk5Epe5Sr7HxxAg6rc2AhyU6PUkuBkUrC3KQpJiZ9hisC3d2ttbojNrrYo4vdozz-f8jN29OowbjxISh-2GX09Z1TnfTE/s1600/CHILD+WITHIN346.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Many of us are spiritually anorexic. Physical anorexia is the inability to respond appropriately to the natural hunger our bodies experience for food. Some people can become so anorexic in relationship to food that they do not experience their stomach’s growling as hunger, nor do they associate the headache and fatigue they feel when they have gone a long time without food as hunger. Food has, for them, become something dangerous and hunger is seen as frightening. So natural, healthy hunger is denied, even to the point, for some, of death by starvation.<br /><br />In much the same way we can deny our spiritual hunger. We can experience the natural sensations of our longing for a relationship with God but deny this longing because it feels too frightening. We may be afraid because we don’t know where this longing will lead, or we have been fed nothing but spiritual toxins in the past and as a result we fear that there is nothing available that will truly fill our souls. Out of fear of one kind or another we can deny and distract ourselves from our hunger for God, and as a result find that we are starving spiritually.<br /><br />Simone Weil wrote about this problem in her book Waiting for God. “The danger,” she writes “is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.”</span>Related articles</div> </div> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/12/half-way-through-course-after.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/364124457_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/12/half-way-through-course-after.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Half way through the course after meditations we will start practicing using our newly found intuitive voice</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagescommunity.blogspot.com/2015/04/when-we-begin-journey-inward-to-heal.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336854328_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagescommunity.blogspot.com/2015/04/when-we-begin-journey-inward-to-heal.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">When we begin the journey inward to heal our emotional suffering and try to avoid falling into the ruts of familiar behaviour that doesn't work for us</a></li> </ul> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul" style="clear: left;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/sbr-our-common-problem-is-spiritual.html" target="_blank">SBR: Our common problem is a spiritual malady that causes normal instinctive drives to go to insane extreme</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/science-is-not-only-compatible-with.html" target="_blank">Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/aa-spiritual-kindergarten-bill-wilson.html" target="_blank">AA The Spiritual Kindergarten: Bill Wilson's attitude about spirituality is as refreshing today as it was back in the 30's.</a> (galatictours.blogspot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-spiritual-narcissist-these-are.html" target="_blank">The spiritual narcissist. 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THE Ten Stage RECOVERY CLUB: We are open to all and have only one specific objective that we centre on the solution, not on the problem or behaviour. The common solution from the original Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous is what we use. We can talk in restaurants, coffee shops, parks or the beach we are not tied to a specific area, but we need to be able to come together in an organised way. We can use SKYPE or any other internet method of talking together.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="zemanta-img"> </div> </div> <div class="" style="text-align: left;"> <div class=""> <div class=""> </div> </div> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSV8WHTxbT8VBCJmhZj1mJ4l3VW4oM9SsDVEqJ5-yt8OUMYRsPk5Epe5Sr7HxxAg6rc2AhyU6PUkuBkUrC3KQpJiZ9hisC3d2ttbojNrrYo4vdozz-f8jN29OowbjxISh-2GX09Z1TnfTE/s1600/CHILD+WITHIN346.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSV8WHTxbT8VBCJmhZj1mJ4l3VW4oM9SsDVEqJ5-yt8OUMYRsPk5Epe5Sr7HxxAg6rc2AhyU6PUkuBkUrC3KQpJiZ9hisC3d2ttbojNrrYo4vdozz-f8jN29OowbjxISh-2GX09Z1TnfTE/s1600/CHILD+WITHIN346.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">THE Ten Stage RECOVERY CLUB: We are open to all and have only one specific objective that we centre on the solution, not on the problem or behaviour. The common solution from the original Ten Stages of Recovery is what we use. We can talk in restaurants, coffee shops, parks or the beach we are not tied to a specific area, but we need to be able to come together in an organised way. We can use SKYPE or any other internet method of talking together. The meetings whilst being informal do not use crosstalk allowing an open disciplined forum for discussion. The groups do not complete for membership and anyone family or friends can come, we are a friendship grouping who talk about the common solution to our problems and behaviour. We are spiritually based but allow full spiritual freedom to all. The intention is to offer support in a trusting environment that is fear free. A fear free zone of trust and consent. Blame and fear have no part within our friendships. We have no sponsors, mentors or leaders. We are free to meet in different places and different times as long as the membership are informed within forty eight hours. A meeting can be two people in a coffee shop or twenty people on a beach.</span><br /> <br /></div>

THE Ten Stage RECOVERY CLUB: We are open to all and have only one specific objective that we centre on the solution, not on the problem or behaviour. The common solution from the original Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous is what we use. We can talk in restaurants, coffee shops, parks or the beach we are not tied to a specific area, but we need to be able to come together in an organised way. We can use SKYPE or any other internet method of talking together.

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Stages invites us to make a decision.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSB5m0o-oxNvGxoif4YHroMafLg2zkC2SjRpa3DFbUpd_C8wseZwiRqyiYHSPleRUqxchEW2hX0hYoDcgWQyhn-NHPcPsU_4_h8K2JduUNB6nsl89jL1T6CBudedZ0GkHyZoDuN4-WuYo/s1600/1-1-The+Ten+Stages234-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSB5m0o-oxNvGxoif4YHroMafLg2zkC2SjRpa3DFbUpd_C8wseZwiRqyiYHSPleRUqxchEW2hX0hYoDcgWQyhn-NHPcPsU_4_h8K2JduUNB6nsl89jL1T6CBudedZ0GkHyZoDuN4-WuYo/s1600/1-1-The+Ten+Stages234-007.jpg" width="207" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The Stages invites us to make a decision. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The decision we make is to turn our life and our will over to our intuitive voices care. This decision will begin a lifelong process of change that can lead to peace and serenity. We do not need to understand the entire process in order to begin. It is enough to know that we cannot do it on our own. The actual process of “turning it over” will come later as we make contact with our child within.</span></div> </div> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"> <a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_h.png?x-id=b23c94a1-2112-478d-b490-b44bf3a1558b" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div> </div> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/08/theres-no-addiction-without-thought.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/355423486_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://childwithinus.blogspot.com/2015/08/theres-no-addiction-without-thought.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">There's no addiction without 'thought disorder', broken sentences, blocked phrases.</a></li> </ul> </div>

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