Aa Wisdom Quotes

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer.

cleverness that the French adore and always mistake for wisdom.

When religion does not move people to the mystical or non-dual level of consciousness9 it is more a part of the problem than any solution whatsoever. It solidifies angers, creates enemies, and is almost always exclusionary of the most recent definition of “sinner.” At this level, it is largely incapable of its supreme task of healing, reconciling, forgiving, and peacemaking. When religion does not give people an inner life or a real prayer life, it is missing its primary vocation. Let me sum up, then, the foundational ways that I believe Jesus and the Twelve Steps of A.A. are saying the same thing but with different vocabulary:   We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it.   This counterintuitive wisdom will forever be resisted as true, denied, and avoided, until it is forced upon us—by some reality over which we are powerless—and if we are honest, we are all powerless in the presence of full Reality.

But Xauleira ra KaAa,-what is worth doing is hard to do.

I had a lot of resentment against my brothers for what they did to me. I carried this anger around with me, and it was actually making me sick. There is a saying in AA that if you have resentments it keeps you away from the joy of sobriety, and this was true. I was carrying a load on my shoulders. One day we talked about the abuse in counselling, and my counsellor asked me if it was happening today. I said, “No.” She suggested living for today and leaving yesterday in the past. I did not know what she meant until I got thinking about it. If I dwelled on the past it would rob me of today. That made a lot of sense. I was stuck in the past. To get past it, I had to accept that yes I was a victim of sexual abuse and yes, I was a victim of residential school, but that was in the past. This is very hard to do because the result of these events changed my views on everything I do today. I have to learn how to keep myself in the present, instead of the past. It is a continuous battle within me. It is like I have dual personalities, and one wants to overtake the other. One still wants to be Karen the victim, who wants the attention and pity. The other, Karen the Survivor, wants to be independent and strong and wants to help others.

The killer of life is not death but disenchantment' - in Shagbark, Story in Book of Dark Wisdom, The Magazine of Dark Fiction

Although a moral inventory and a daily inventory reveal myriads of flaws in our makeups, still we, as human beings, cannot unravel all our liabilities in the personality. So at night, when I offer thanks to Him for the day’s sobriety, I add a prayer: I ask Him to forgive my failings during the day, to help me to improve, and to grant me the wisdom to discover those faults in myself which I cannot lay my finger on. In short, the need for prayer is infinite! Karachi, Pakistan

Bence farklı olmak hem güzel bir şey hem de bir lanet. En azından farkındalık yaratıyor. Yani… Misal, herkesin ya A ya da B olduğunu düşün. Bu A ve B’ler farklı farklı, benzersiz parçaları var, ama sonuçta ya A ya da B. Bu insanlar birbirlerine aşık oluyorlar falan, ya da arkadaşlar. AA olabilir, AB olabilir, ya da BB… İkisi de kabuldur. Bir de ‘0’ var. 0 gibi dışarı itiliyorsun, bu ikililerin yanında bir sıfır kadar değersizsin. Geriye iki grup insan kalır. Seni gördüğünde sıfır olduğunu hatırlatanlar, ve yanına gelip A0 ya da B0 yapanlar. İkisi de kan gurubudur. Değil mi? Düşünsene bak. 0 olduğun için, faşist olan A ve B’leri en baştan eleyebiliyorsun. Kendileri belli ediyorlar bunu zaten. Senin göze batan sıfırlığın onları kimliklerini açık etmeye zorluyor. Kim Nazi’den çocuk yapmak ister ki? Kalanını da aramaya gerek kalmıyor, varsa yanına geliyorlar zaten. Hiç olmadı 00 olursun, daha cool bir şey olur mu?

What you become in life is not as a result of a gift or a curse but a product of your decisions and discipline.

Everytime you learn you recreate yourself. Thus the reason you must be strategic particular about what you learn

Excellence is not luck. Excellence is predictable and repeatable through precise and deliberate action

It is imperative that you learn not to over amplify yourself. Have a proper estimate of who you are and act accordingly.

Jessie nods. She’s going through a transition, too, having recently given up drinking. “What you’re saying reminds me of something I heard at an AA meeting. It’s the idea of being ‘right-sized.’ And I’m still trying to figure it out.” She pauses and takes a sip of coffee. “Can you give me an example?” I ask. I’ve missed these talks with Jessie. How we alternate between laughter and the deep questions of our inner lives. “Well, like alcohol for me. Alcohol became too big a part of my life. I couldn’t get through a day without it, so I’d spend way too much time thinking about when I would be able to drink. And then I’d drink too much, and the next morning would be shot because I felt terrible. I just couldn’t manage to keep it right-sized—drinking always seemed to take over. So I decided I had to quit. I’m wondering if there’s some wisdom there for you, too. Like, when Stewart got so upset because you couldn’t stop talking about Karl and Martina. Or when you felt like you were losing your mind because you were obsessing over how to handle the whole situation.

I thank God for the wisdom of the early founders who knew so well the alcoholic’s disdain for being manipulated.

All our problems would melt away if we could sit peacefully in a room. Catherine had heard that somewhere, probably at an AA meeting. Fractured pieces of wisdom, cobbled together from half-remembered axioms: put them together, and you had what passed for a philosophy, in the twilight world of the drunkard. And sober drunks could be just as dull as the real kind. Something else she’d learned at meetings.

I have seen rivers float red with innocent blood, Swords drowned in misery, entrails and putrid bowels, Glorious commands shouted by leaders, Whose faith was hewn in stone, An auspicious star, a contract with the Shârz. Yet I have understood, in my wisdom, that true authority Lies in the wisdom that needs no words. Reason needs no captain or general, but an attentive observer...