Category Archives: Touchstones
Daily Reading – February 23, 2013
A man who studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. —Francis Bacon Where do we direct our energy? Are we spending time and thought on how we have been wronged? On the unfairness of life? Those who consume their resources
Daily Reading – February 23, 2013
A man who studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. —Francis Bacon Where do we direct our energy? Are we spending time and thought on how we have been wronged? On the unfairness of life? Those who consume their resources
Daily Reading – February 22, 2013
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. —Seneca When we reach a stressful time in our lives, our vision gets narrow. We fail to
Daily Reading – February 22, 2013
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. —Seneca When we reach a stressful time in our lives, our vision gets narrow. We fail to
Daily Reading – February 11, 2013
Too much agreement kills a chat. —Eldridge Cleaver Many of us haven’t learned there is room for disagreement in a relationship. Some men who grew up in addicted families saw a lot of pain, anger, and quarreling. Many learned to
Daily Reading – February 11, 2013
Too much agreement kills a chat. —Eldridge Cleaver Many of us haven’t learned there is room for disagreement in a relationship. Some men who grew up in addicted families saw a lot of pain, anger, and quarreling. Many learned to
Daily Reading – August 14, 2012
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. —Hugh Mulligan We show self-respect in how we choose to spend our time. Do we give tasks the time required for our best
Daily Reading – August 14, 2012
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. —Hugh Mulligan We show self-respect in how we choose to spend our time. Do we give tasks the time required for our best
Daily Reading – July 27, 2012
Letting Go: July 27 Stop trying so hard to control things. It is not our job to control people, outcomes, circumstances, life. Maybe in the past we couldn’t trust and let things happen. But we can now. The way life
Daily Reading – July 27, 2012
Letting Go: July 27 Stop trying so hard to control things. It is not our job to control people, outcomes, circumstances, life. Maybe in the past we couldn’t trust and let things happen. But we can now. The way life
Daily Reading – July 24, 2012
Many things are lost for want of asking. —English proverb It’s a principle of this program that we grow, in part, by learning to ask for what we need. Perhaps today we are struggling with a problem that could be
Daily Reading – July 24, 2012
Many things are lost for want of asking. —English proverb It’s a principle of this program that we grow, in part, by learning to ask for what we need. Perhaps today we are struggling with a problem that could be
Daily Reading – June 28, 2012
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. —Abraham Maslow In our daily lives, we may dream of success and achievement.
Daily Reading – June 28, 2012
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. —Abraham Maslow In our daily lives, we may dream of success and achievement.
Daily Recovery Reading – May 13, 2012
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. —Marion Anderson Because of our resentments we sometimes get
Daily Recovery Reading – May 13, 2012
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. —Marion Anderson Because of our resentments we sometimes get
Daily Recovery Reading – May 7, 2012
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. —Edward R.
Daily Recovery Reading – May 7, 2012
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. —Edward R.
Daily Recovery Reading- March 22, 2012
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. —M. C. Richards Recovering men know this path is not always easy. We usually talk about the benefits
Daily Recovery Reading- March 22, 2012
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. —M. C. Richards Recovering men know this path is not always easy. We usually talk about the benefits
