In meditation it is easier to have a calm mind; outside of meditation is when the real test comes.
“What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink? #AA p. 35 #SoberSky #Recovery
"...we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy...But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened." #AA p. 37
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Tori
Tori
The first time I had alcohol, I knew it was the answer to life, my life, my situation. I was a teen and was told I tried to get out of a moving car. I could not wait to do it again. Insanity from the start. It worked for a long time until it didn't. My solution had become my problem. #SoberSky
"Most of us have believed that if we remained sober for a long stretch, we could thereafter drink normally. But here is a man who at 55 found he was just where he had left off at 30. We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." #AA p. 33 #SoberSky
"So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn’t think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness." #AA p. 62 #SoberSky #Recovery
Tori
"Worrier Pose" 😀 #yoga
Tori
Tori
"'Well, I'm sober and I'm happy. What more can I want, or do? I'm fine the way I am.' We know that the price of such self-satisfaction is an inevitable backslide, punctuated at some point by a very rude awakening. We have to grow or else deteriorate." #AA -ABSI p. 25 #SoberSky #Recovery
Tori
"When we retire at night, we constructively review our day...
Were we kind and loving toward all? What could we have done better? Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time? Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life?" #AA p 86 #SoberSky
"..he should understand that he must undergo a change of heart. To get over drinking will require a transformation of thought and attitude. We all had to place recovery above everything, for without recovery we would have lost both home and business." #AA P. 143 #SoberSky #Recovery
