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10-09-2003, 08:35 AM
Daily Reflections
A SPIRITUAL AXIOM
It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no
matter what the cause, there is
something wrong with us.
12 & 12, p. 90
I never truly understood the Tenth Step's spiritual axiom
until I had the following
experience. I was sitting in my bedroom, reading into the wee
hours, when suddenly I
heard my dogs barking in the back yard. My neighbors frown on
this kind of disturbance
so, with mixed feelings of anger and shame, as well as fear of
my neighbor's disapproval,
I immediately called in my dogs. Several weeks later the
exact situation repeated itself
but this time, because I was feeling more at peace with
myself, I was able to accept the
situation--dogs will bark--and I calmly called in the dogs.
Both incidents taught me that
when a person experiences nearly identical events and reacts
two different ways, then it
is not the event that is of prime importance, but the person's
spiritual condition. Feelings
come from inside, not from outward circumstances. When my
spiritual condition is
positive, I react positively.
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A SPIRITUAL AXIOM
It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no
matter what the cause, there is
something wrong with us.
12 & 12, p. 90
I never truly understood the Tenth Step's spiritual axiom
until I had the following
experience. I was sitting in my bedroom, reading into the wee
hours, when suddenly I
heard my dogs barking in the back yard. My neighbors frown on
this kind of disturbance
so, with mixed feelings of anger and shame, as well as fear of
my neighbor's disapproval,
I immediately called in my dogs. Several weeks later the
exact situation repeated itself
but this time, because I was feeling more at peace with
myself, I was able to accept the
situation--dogs will bark--and I calmly called in the dogs.
Both incidents taught me that
when a person experiences nearly identical events and reacts
two different ways, then it
is not the event that is of prime importance, but the person's
spiritual condition. Feelings
come from inside, not from outward circumstances. When my
spiritual condition is
positive, I react positively.
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