Thursday, May 10, 2007

Act Yourself Into A New Way Of Thinking...

From "Tightrope":
"My sponsor was a living damper on my intolerance. But even more, he told me that it would be all right for me to doubt God, that A.A. was not a religious program and, to belong, I did not have to adhere to any set of beliefs.
"He suggested that for me a good starting point would simply be recognition of the fact that I had failed in running the world—in short, acceptance of the fact that I was not God. He also suggested that I might try occasionally to act as if I believed. Somewhere I had heard that it is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking than to think yourself into a new way of acting, and this made sense in the context of 'acting as if.'"

I personally don't believe in God because Who Created God?
But I believe in a power greater than myself being FAITH and HOPE and LOVE.....with Buddha leading the way....
Suzette-je

2 comments:

-Mirage said...

This is true. When a student of Buddhism brought the Big Book with the 12 steps of A.A. to his teachers, their only correction was to change God with Good. "Good as we understood it." The book that was written by this student is the Buddhist aproach to AA. It is called "One Breath At A Time." VERY good reading. good post!

-Mirage said...

This is true. When a student of Buddhism brought the Big Book with the 12 steps of A.A. to his teachers, their only correction was to change God with Good. "Good as we understood it." The book that was written by this student is the Buddhist aproach to AA. It is called "One Breath At A Time." VERY good reading. good post!