Nothing binds us together like tears of the heart My heart immediately felt the crushing despair flowing like a river through the tears of my newfound friend. He is an Irish man of my generation. A musician and mystic. I’d heard him speak before, and internally identified that he was my kind of guy, a […]
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The mingling of our innate humanity with the spirit deep down within A Spiritual Awakening can be like a rude awakening, sudden, dramatic, unexpected, and life changing. I know folks, especially amongst the sober-booze community, who have experienced these remarkable turnarounds. More often, though, a spiritual wakening is a slow transformation that happens over time,
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi. Like it or not, we nearly all get to take a reluctant stroll down the boulevard of broken dreams. If you, like me, have stumbled into this unwelcome place, comrades, take heart, it might just be the best thing that has ever happened to
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So, I’m sitting in a room in Brisbane Australia, nearly thirty years ago taking twelve step calls from people who are, you know, on the serious end of the booze hound spectrum. Now you don’t get to be answering calls like that unless you’ve been a repeat-offender serious booze hound yourself. In comes this call
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