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Sep 12, 08- (by Diary of a Quitter)
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- Mind, Body, Spirit
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I read this last night:
Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW…so you stop asking.
-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
I feel like I’m somewhere in between these two points with my recovery. Some days I long for the time when I will be “better”, when this tapering off Suboxone will be done, when I’ll be healthy and strong, finished with school, working as a therapist, have money in the bank, a clean house, an organized life…
Then there are days, or even just moments of days when I am walking through the little park by my house early in the morning and the air is crisp and the sun is warm, catching golden on trees coloring with the first blush of autumn and I realize: I’ve been here all along.
Have a beautiful day.
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That book is timeless. The cookbook in the back is something I can only recently appreciate. It’s funny to me that a long time ago, it was my insightful companion on the LSD trips; now it’s still my companion along the recovery road.
“The opposite of craving is saying, baby, this is the way it is, yeah, OK, here and now, this is it. I ACCEPT THE HERE & NOW FULLY.” –Brian Bruya
Every human being driven by the spirit and that invisible spirit is truly called divine, every creature is driven by the divine force and that’s called “inspiration”, it’s internal and when it dies the living being also dies….