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.
If only able to put Alanon slogans into practice, we could almost be spiritually perfect thought today's writer.
Using Live and Let Live as an example, these four words encourage us to experience the rich joy and happiness that is possible when we are living at our best.
Often more difficult, we are challenged also to acknowledge the right of others to do the same without delivering our unsolicited critique, advice, or judgment. Even when we are ideologically opposed to them, we would not hold contempt or resentment.
Reminder: Focus on the lesson of Live and Let Live will help me learn and form the stick to which I measure my interactions with those in my life.
"When my thoughts are centered on learning to live, I will be less tempted to involve my mind with the thoughts of how others live." - unattributed ---------------------------- I was not raised around any concept of Live and Let Live. It was a bumper sticker I saw occasionally, one that didn't make sense to me.
Alanon introduced me to this as a spiritual concept that was best for me and those in my life, a beginning for me to restore sanity and an opportunity for the alcoholic and others get a break from my relentless, detrimental and disrespectful interference...the beginning of humility, the first steps on the road to spiritual recovery.
I agree completely with the author, the slogans, and this one in particular for me, carry so much Program, I can always use this reminder
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Paul
"...when we try to control others, we lose the ability to manage our own lives." - Paths to Recovery
Thanks Paul for your service and all above ESH. I have spent way too much time focused on my A with resulting disappointment, resentment, and sadness. I feel much better when I can Live and let live, Let go and let God, Bless them change me, one day at a time. :)
