meeting still denying the Deity, yet reporting how vastly he has been changed in attitude and outlook. We can never say (or insinuate) to anyone that he must agree to our formula or be excommunicated. “We found that the principles of tolerance and love had to be emphasized in actual practice. I pray that God’s thoughts may work through my thoughts. I pray that I may be a true expression of Eternal Thought. But we can deduce that outside the box of space and time is Eternal Thought, which we can call God. Our thoughts, within the box of space and time, cannot know anything firsthand, except material things. When Eternal Thought expresses itself within the framework of space and time, it becomes matter. In the final analysis, matter is thought. The more the physicists and astronomers reduce matter, the more it becomes a mathematical formula, which is thought. ![]() Do I have real charity?Īll material things, the universe, the world, even our bodies, may be Eternal Thought expressed in time and space. But the main thing is to have charity for others, a real desire to help them, whether we succeed or not. We never know the results even a word of ours might have. We may try to help somebody and think we have failed, but the seed we have planted may bear fruit some time. To get the full benefit of the program, we must try to help other alcoholics. ![]() program is one of charity because the real meaning of the word charity is to care enough about other people to really want to help them. What I will be tomorrow is determined by what I think today. I must walk into darkness to find the light and walk into fear to find peace.īy revealing my secrets – and thereby ridding myself of guilt – I can actually change my thinking by altering my thinking, I can change myself. I must be willing to look at the dark side in order to heal my mind and heart because that is the road to freedom. It’s the side of myself that I refuse to look at that rules me. But I can neither love nor be loved if I allow my secrets to get in the way. God is nearer to me than I think and I can experience Him by loving people and allowing people to love me. Since it is true that God comes to me through people, I can see that by keeping people at a distance I also keep God at a distance. ![]() Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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