Today's Thought Is:

Pain Pills
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The basis of happiness is the love of something outside self.
--William George Jordan

Self-centeredness destroys the very self it purports to nurture. When our vision of an experience stops at the tips of our noses, we fail to notice the colorful passing panorama that promises the enlightenment for which we've been created. It's only through our interested involvement with others that we'll discover what we need to know. Perpetual introspection deprives us of the worldly information that nourishes each searching soul.

We lead muddled, directionless lives when we fail to listen to the clues for finding happiness being uttered by those we choose to ignore.

Just as we must water and thin our raspberries if they're to multiply, so must we cultivate the seeds of friendship if we're to know happiness. And attuning ourselves to the sounds of another's heart offers us a clearer perspective on our own.


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there must be a balance between taking care of others and there needs, recongnizing their desires, what makes them happy and what makes us happy... just as some have a problem with this balance that is taking too much time pleasing others some take too much time and effort on themselves only looking at there experiences in relation to how it effect them what makes them happy or sad... limiting their experiences to themselves and their limited world... this introversion is toxic to recovery and is a symptom of why we use.....

being able to look and see how our use and abuse effected others as well as ourselves this makes for good steps in the right direction.. but not just in recovery. This is applied in daily experiences and actions. The legacy we leave and the example we set. Introversion taken to a deeper degree can be seen as self centeredness.

just my comments.

teresa

thanks janet......