Escape

[MajestyJo]

Abba Antony said: Whoever sits in solitude and is quiet has escaped from three wars: those of hearing, speaking, and seeing.

And then there is only one war left in which to fight, and that is the battle for your own heart.

Sayings of the Elders. PL. 73. 858.

Really like this. My thought was "There is solitude, isolation, and shutting down." They are part of my disease. Taking time out can be good. It also depends on why we need to take that time out, is it from burn out or just because we need a rest.

It is good to detach, think things out, then move on, not always best just to stay there. When we stay, we become complacent.

We can be in a roomful of people and feel alone. We can be in an empty room, and not feel lonely.

Isn't it nice when you see someone else's quote, and it gives you food for thought and soul.

They say if we are isolated, we can't get to God and He can't get to us. When we shut out negative feelings, we are shutting out the positive ones too. When I stuffed my feelings, I also stuffed positive ones, and didn't allow myself to feel.

When I look back now it makes me sad, to think of how much joy I missed out on in my life.

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NEW WORLD
"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values." Henry Miller

LETTING GO
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." Joseph Campbell

REGRET
"Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in." Katherine Mansfield

HUMAN EMOTION
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." Helen Keller

TRUST
" 'Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.'
'Come to the edge,' he said They came. He pushed them.
... and they flew." Guillaume Apollinaire

PROMISES
"We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves."
The Big Book

EFFORT
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
Carol Burnett

~VISION~

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It never ceases to amaze me how the disease of compulsion distorts the vision.

Recovery brings new eyes to the compulsive. It lets us see what's real. Recovery allows each of us to see the cathedral we really are, rather than the pile of rubble we think we see. Recovery corrects our vision. :1:

One Day at a Time . . .
As I work my recovery program, I will see myself as I really am, rather than seeing what the disease shows me. :idea:
Jeff

Some quotes to chew on awhile, they can make a difference. :D