Month: August 2000
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The Ultimate Test
John Blanchard stood up from the bench straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn't, the girl with the rose.His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library.…
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Seventh Step Prayer
My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefullness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding.
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Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenityTo accept the things I cannot change,The courage to change the things I can,And the wisdom to know the difference.
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Sanskrit Proverb
Look to this day,For it is life,The very life of life.In its brief course lie allThe realities and verities of existence,The bliss of growth,The splendor of action,The glory of power — For yesterday is by a dream,And tomorrow is only a vision,But today, well lived,Makes every yesterday a dream of happinessAnd every tomorrow a vision…
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Putting it in order
One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget. As he stood in front of the group of high powered overachievers he said, "Okay, time for a quiz."Then he pulled out a one-gallon, wide mouth…
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Promises of Sobriety
If we are painstaking about this phase [Step Nine] of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and…