January 22, 2006

Anxiety

The effort to escape from truth is the father of anxiety. . .
A world where truth does not shine
is a world filled with fog and cobwebs,
a gray miasma through which we run blind
and lost and terrified,
tripping over roots we do not see,
dodging the threat of looming shapes,
remaining separated from our fellows in the dripping,
fear-filled darkness.

Reprinted from The Best of the Grapevine (Vol. 1), pp. 134-135, from the Grapevine. Reprinted with permission of The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Truth is like the sun.
You can shut it out for a time,
but it's not going to go away.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

F E A R = Frustration, Ego, Anxiety, Resentment.


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