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Where are you on your spiritual path?
Posted on Nov 23rd, 2008
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TextMage
TextMage
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for November 23, 2008:
Sitting in my chair responding to this question.
Been doing the Spiritual Path thing for a very long time, but I agree with boogie that this moment is the only one: The First and the Last, so to speak.
Been SOBER for a long time, and I always get a kick out of those rockers and newbies, usually the three-to-fifteen set, who come to the rooms and tell people that "it's the quality of your sobriety that counts, not the quantity." Once at a meeting in NYC, I heard some crusty, "old-timer" tell one of them fellas, "Well, come back when you get a little quantity and we'll talk about the quality."
I mostly go to meetings for the humor these days.
My Grandpa used to say that a man could "get thirty years of experience, or he could get the same experiences for thirty years." I don't even think that matters any more either. When I stop to think about my sobriety, my humility, or my spiritual condition, I'm already out of the loop and not living my Spiritual principles in ALL my affairs.
I've never heard anyone, who I think has good long-term sobriety, actually talk about any of these things, except privately, of course, and then only for a very brief and specific reason. I guess that's what I get for thinking.
I try to do as little of it as possible, as you can tell by the writing here.
Been doing the Spiritual Path thing for a very long time, but I agree with boogie that this moment is the only one: The First and the Last, so to speak.
Been SOBER for a long time, and I always get a kick out of those rockers and newbies, usually the three-to-fifteen set, who come to the rooms and tell people that "it's the quality of your sobriety that counts, not the quantity." Once at a meeting in NYC, I heard some crusty, "old-timer" tell one of them fellas, "Well, come back when you get a little quantity and we'll talk about the quality."
I mostly go to meetings for the humor these days.
My Grandpa used to say that a man could "get thirty years of experience, or he could get the same experiences for thirty years." I don't even think that matters any more either. When I stop to think about my sobriety, my humility, or my spiritual condition, I'm already out of the loop and not living my Spiritual principles in ALL my affairs.
I've never heard anyone, who I think has good long-term sobriety, actually talk about any of these things, except privately, of course, and then only for a very brief and specific reason. I guess that's what I get for thinking.
I try to do as little of it as possible, as you can tell by the writing here.
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Wow! Good posting, TextMage. Thank you for sharing this today…. :)
nice! i love your answer here, rich.
Yes, this is a great blog, RicHIE. better than porn.
Porn is probably somebody's spiritual Path.
I know that porn, which I am still old-fashioned enough to call, “smut,” has been a part of my growth: In some healthy ways and in some unhealthy ways, very probably. I also think that the very concept of healthy and unhealthy growth separates me from my growth, however meager my growth, or its impetus.
I hope that makes sense and doesn't sound like a justification for watching “Girls Gone Wild with my sheep. I am the ”good shepherd” after all!
Lord, Lord, Lord, how do I get mixed up with ALL them Christian-types? Won't the Good Lord Jesus ever JUST leave me alone.
I totally agree with *boogie,” the there is no hierarchy in Spiritual Growth, even those capital letters indicate a separation that exists only in my mind, and now in yours, Dear Reader. Good luck with that!
*Why do I have such trouble not capitalizing “boogie?” e e cummings aside.