Honest: Free of deceit and untruthfulness; able to be trusted and not likely to lie, cheat, or steal.
The three pillars of Alcoholics Anonymous are Honesty, Openness, and Willingness. The topic this morning at the meeting was honesty. Frankly, I found the discussion a little confusing as everyone made it sound like lying was a bad thing. I guess, although it seems unfair to those of us who were born with a natural ability to lie and to lie well and then subsequently honed our craft by diligently lying at every opportunity. Whatever. If lying were an Olympic sport I'd be in the running for a medal.
In A.A. we train ourselves to see reality exactly as it is, and we call this special mode of perception mindfulness. Life began to take on an unbelievable richness which I couldn't even put into words - it had to be experienced. This wasn't my experience up to my entry into The Rooms. I lived a life where I didn't care to look into what was really there in front of me. Life was a series of thoughts and concepts which I mistook for reality and I was so caught up in this endless thought-stream that real reality flowed by unnoticed. Personally, I was obsessed with activity, engrossed in an endless pursuit of pleasure and gratification and in constant flight from pain and unpleasantness. Jesus, I really was a five year old
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