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More insightful help… I don't know what a spiritual awakening is, but everyone that I know who is happy without the need to drug will connect it to a spiritual experience. I don't know what it means to be able to “white- knuckle it out.” I don't know what it means to say, “I'm determined not to drink, and I'm going to use the power of my own mind not to do it." First of all, because I couldn't do it, and second, had I been able to do it, I would have remained unhappy for the rest of my life because I was being denied what I had to have to have my enjoyment. Master Teacher, Saturday Night 12 Step Meeting talk
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics. We tried to carry it to other human sufferers – to other “mortalholics.” This is you as a teacher of God, isn't it? This is you as the Savior of the World. And to practice these principles in all our affairs. That is all you're asked to do. The discipline is to stay in this constant necessity for the reassociation of your mind with the admission that the miracle is always working all about you if you'll let it. Can you see this? It's always happening to you. Step back – feel the indescribable happiness of your true reality! The resistance is always in your own perceptual mind. We can't tell you what love and God is, but we can tell you what the obstacle to love is: this is the determination of yourself to hold yourself in this bondage of ego, in this bondage of the addiction to the necessity for your self – identity. The 12 Step Program and A Course in Miracles booklet |
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps – notice this is past tense. It's happening to you! First you work it, then it works you.