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The Secret of Contentment

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.


— Archbishop Emeritus of Bombay, India, Alban Goodier, S.J. (1869-1939)


Not quite ready to carry the message?

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.


— Edward Everett, Famed orator, University president, politician; spoke at Gettysburg just before Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.


Jung: To know the human psyche,...

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul.


— Carl Jung


God created us with that emptiness so...

"Dr. Carl Jung told Rowland Hazard, 'I believe that every human being has an inner search for wholeness. I have never been able to help a person who found that wholeness in alcohol. It requires a power greater than human power.'

I think God created us with that emptiness so we would find it has to be filled by spirituality."


— Joe McQ in Carry This Message, p. 8


Something is out of tune.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'


Dr Carl Jung
See pages 26 & 27 of Alcoholics Anonymous


Discovery & Perception

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.


— Marcel Proust


Do your best; don't worry.

You don’t have to worry if you do everything you’re supposed to do right. Or if not right, doing it the best you can. What can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can



Joe Namath


Happiness

Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now.
The place to be happy is here.
The way to be happy is to make others so.



Robert G. Ingersoll--Colonel Ingersoll (1833–1899) was an American political leader and orator, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism.


Looking for happiness?

If you are not happy with what you have,

what makes you think you would be happy with more?


— Unknown


Trying?

Try not.
Do.
Or, do not.
There is no try.


— Yoda, the Jedi Master from Star Wars


Knowing what to do is not enough - On decisions, as in Step 3

A decision, by itself, changes nothing.


Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert Sutton in "The Knowing-Doing Gap" - Harvard Business School Press p. 33. 

That's none of your business, but...

It is none of your business what they think of you, but your very life depends on what you think of them.


— Polly - when quoting a departed member of our fellowship at a roundup in Anchorage - 2006.


Fellowship Defined

Definition of Fellowship

1.) The condition of sharing similar experiences, interests, or ideals.

2.) Companionship of individuals on equal terms in a congenial atmosphere.



May we all Become Like God, revealing unconditional love for humanity.

Before any action, ask yourself what is the thought, the cause, the consciousness behind the action.

If you are reacting to a feeling or fulfilling a desire of the ego, if the purpose of the action is to promote the ego, and is about selfishness, then that action moves you away from the Light and immortality.

If the action is coming from a place of sharing and giving, it reveals Light, and movers you closer to immortality.



Michael Berg at www.becominglikegod.com. Rabbi Michael Berg wrote "Becoming Like God", ISBN 1-57189-242-7 found at Albris used books - a new copy of a VERY good book for about $6.00.


what is spirituality?


Spirituality is a logical and gradual process.

Michael Berg, author and rabbi


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