Tag Archives: sobriety
Emotional Sobriety: Weekly Summary
The goal of the Twelve Steps is to become a spiritually awakened person. Continue Reading Emotional Sobriety: Weekly Summary
Responding Instead of Reacting
I believe we are made for love, that our natural abiding place is love, and that we in fact are love. Continue Reading Responding Instead of Reacting
An Enormous Freedom
Emotional sobriety is the same as detachment from our own ideas of happiness. Continue Reading An Enormous Freedom
Freedom from Our Passions
The real heart of emotion is the willingness to let go, to sacrifice your personal drama so that you can begin to see. Continue Reading Freedom from Our Passions
A Mind-Heart Connection
Eventually toxic emotions will disappear and nontoxic thinking will start to arise in our hearts. Continue Reading A Mind-Heart Connection
A Riverbed of Mercy
God-in-us is a riverbed of mercy that underlies all the flotsam and jetsam that flows over it and soon passes away. Continue Reading A Riverbed of Mercy
Emotional Maturity
If an emotion does not help us read a situation better and more truthfully, we must let it go—for our own well-being. Continue Reading Emotional Maturity