I enjoy the imagery of looking at things, at life, as if I'm standing on the bank of a river flowing by. I can perceive the river as a fixed force. It's the river. It has been there a long time and it'll be there tomorrow. Or I can perceive it as always changing. It is, after all, bits and pieces of water going by so that I'm looking at something different all of the time.
I try to be present when I'm in a meeting. Hell, I try to be present all the time but that's not going to happen so I have come to rely on that hour when I'm planted in a seat in Alcoholics Anonymous, paying attention . . . well, trying to pay attention. All my problems, all my horrible, terrible problems and bedevilments are going to wait patiently and assault me once I walk out the door. If I let them, that is. Right Here, Right Now really comes into play when I'm in The Rooms. Why I take these flights of fancy that whisk me off into some dystopian future is one of the great mysteries of my life.
"There is always a way. Solutions will not come when we are hanging onto the problem for dear life. When we back away and get a better perspective, the chances are good for more than one solution - we can choose. We are known for insisting on the wrong answer - believing the way we see it is the only way. But if something knocks our hand loose from its clinched position, ideas can flow out like water from a hose. When we cease to heave and sigh and begin to let our imagination work, it can reach into areas that our ordinary knowledge doesn't have. It should be an act of anticipation - a great expectation that the Great Spirit is putting the answer where we can find it this very moment." Cherokee Lady
Heave and Sigh. Man, that's great. That should be on my tombstone: "He Left Heaving and Sighing." Dazed and Confused.
"We will intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle us."
"We are often surprised how the right answers will come . . . "
Both passages from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
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