The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
i don't know what principles is cal taking about ???? Need answers for this one. And personalities to me would be each and every one we are individuals with diff, personalities weather one is an addict or alcoholis or are not an addict or alcoholic same applies ,I know some people's personalities can be hard for me to get along with my thinking that their healthy,I know their healthy and their personalities are so diff.bthan mine cause I'm unhealthy so to make things difficult to get along with diff,personalities .sounds confusing ,I hope I didn't make it confusing,it's just all Greek to me for the most part just this saying.i know it has and there's some great info and very helpful things in this saying.just that I'm not getting it.......hugs lu
I think the message in that phrase is that everyone you come across in this program may not be your "cup of tea", but it is the steps, traditions and concepts that make this program, not the personalities of those you meet in the program. If you read and listen and learn regardless of how you feel about who said it and take what you like and leave the rest, you will find help here.
__________________
Bethany
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be." Abe Lincoln
The priniciples that i accepted as the result of embracing the alanon program were: Trust in a Power greater than myself, life must be lived with humility one day at a time, without judging, critiquing , gossiping about or blaming anyone. By becoming teachable and by keeping an open mind, being honest in my communications , i accept my powerlessness over people, places and things. I live by these principles each day, For years, if I liked you, I did not have principles.- If I did not like you I manufactured principles that I held you to but not myself .
Today I live up to my principles regardless of the behavior of another That I feel is placing principles above personalities.
