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Author: ojinoto
Trying to do good. Born and raised and living in NYC.
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humility can be a virtue
humility can be a virtue
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Happy Thanks Giving!!!
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To improve you must remove negative influences from your life. They each are like holes in your vessel (ship), no matter how small they work only to impede your progress. The strongest, quickest vessel is the one with a solid hull; stable, whole, able to master the greatest of storms encountered. Every hole will work to impede you, no matter the size or shape. You must repair each one.
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Doesn’t Have To Be Forced
Doesn’t have to be forced
– Latif
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The situation can change. Anything can happen right now. You never know.
Think positive, pull positive, and the likelihood of things changing for the positive increases
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Desire The Good Thing
Desire The Good Thing
How do I desire the good thing?
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With not much to say this moment, I want to express that making good the things of this world is on my mind; I believe every person can be fulfilled.
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Be the person mentally who you are comfortable being. Then you can feel easier to open up.
Live the Life You Love
Love the Life You Live
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Thank you for helping me stay sober from alcohol
It is Life and Death
Thank You
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“All that is gold does not glitter;
not all those that wander are lost.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
the false ego wants power
the natural being arrives at Grace naturally
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“It’s not a test, it’s an opportunity to be the person you want to be”
Sometimes Life comes with events that people call “problems”, “challenges”, “tests”, “opportunities”. Since we make our destiny in the moment, these are all asking to be done in a good way
If You Are Going To Do Something, Do It Good
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Another Connection Is Always Possible
Another connection is always possible
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“…the beautiful thing is with Faith you never know how you will get passed things but you just do.”
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And Fill It Up With Good Things
Take the shiz outta your head and fill it up with good things
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Everything Moves At Its Own Pace
Everything moves at its own pace.
If you observe nature, both living and “non”, you notice everything has a time, seasons, currents, and its own way.
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Help me feel Better About Myself
Help me feel
Better
About
Myself
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Sometimes I hesitate to post something from fear of being a hypocrite, or condescending, or arrogantly naive.
For instance: How do I know this something is for sure?
How can I encourage, enlighten and remind people when I so often need encouragement, enlightenment and reminding ?
Please know that I am human too. Please allow for humanity when this website is trying to help…
Thank You
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I cant do anything
Yes, you can. Humans are the most intelligent species known on this planet. You are limited only by your belief that you are limited.
Human history is full of individuals and groups overcoming obstacles that were thought to be insurmountable. Anything can be overcome. Any problem, issue, or obstacle can be overcome, because we have the ability to continually improve ourself. Humans can identify an obstacle, and working together or alone, (with Faith), can use the mind to find a solution, or suitable way forward.
Every ‘issue’ or problem you encounter, you have the capability to overcome. This means that you can do anything.
Addendum:
The answer you want may not be the answer you receive. But you will always have a way forward, somewhere in time and space…or elsewhere
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You do not truly succeed if you are taking advantage of others. When you hold people back, you prevent your own growth. To build, you must build everyone and everything you interact with. Everyone and everything you work with. When you build in this manner, each component becomes stronger for your benefit. Even if you achieve goals by taking advantage, you are holding yourself back from much more than this, you have reached a miniscule step upon a colossal ladder that leads to other than your best interest.
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Things will not change unless you change them, you have to take an active role in anything you want to change. Even thinking or feeling differently about something is an active role.
By thinking or feeling differently towards something you change your perspective, and more change occurs.
“SOW THE SEED THAT BINDS YOU
FEEL THE STEEL THAT SIGNS YOU
PUT UP ALL YOUR RESOURCES
AND WALK INTO THE MAGIC”
-Mom
I’ve just completed my first year completely free from any alcohol ingestion.
I somehow do not feel as proud to say this as I thought I would. It’s actually humbling, bringer of humility. It’s not that I don’t want to drink, it’s that I feel I cant. I am scared for my Life, literally.
I am so grateful to have this year. I had
doubted myself many times on my ability to remain alcohol free. And then I had this dream last year. And it was frightening enough, real enough, possible enough to convince me my next drink could and would be catastrophic for the personal safety of myself and others.
And so I’m here, 1 year later, somehow not having drank. Amazed and thankful at the grace that has brought me to today in this way.
I thought I would be full of gusto and pride at this 1year mark. Instead, I am humbled…there is no vanquished foe. I am choosing not to battle. I am choosing not to gamble.
I have fought with the entity before, a larger-than monster that I introduce to the Sword of Imbibing. Sometimes I would walk or run or stumble away feeling victorious. I faced it and showed my ability and had a good time and still had Life and limbs. Sometimes I would come out of the battle with an injured dignity, or injured relationships; the entity knows how to inflict injury. So far everything has been salvageable.
Now, it is not me galloping into the arena, jumping off the horse with sword aimed at the entity. No. I do not want to gamble here anymore with Life and death.
I lay the sword down, and walk around the entity, leaving it to look at me as I walk. I don’t know how long it looks, or what it does after, because as I walk around it…
I look away.
Help me, to remain sober and free of alcohol.
Thank you
“This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this knowledge. ‘I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard,’ she told me. ‘In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously.’ Pointing through the window of the hut, she said, ‘This tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness.’ Through that window she could see just one branch of a chestnut tree, and on the branch were two blossoms. ‘I often talk to this tree,’ she said to me. I was startled and didn’t quite know how to take her words. Was she delirious? Did she have occasional hallucinations? Anxiously I asked her if the tree replied. ‘Yes.’ What did it say to her? She answered, ‘It said to me, “I am here–I am here–I am life, eternal life.” ‘ ”
-Viktor E. Frankl Man’s Search for Meaning
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“You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.”
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“Sometimes you literally have to grab yourself by the collar and pick yourself up.
The secret is momentum. Once you start you keep going. You dont stop.”
-Tashan