Re: Today's Gift - 06/22/2008

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Today's thought from Hazelden is:Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.--Archibald. MacLeishMany of us have lived double lives. There were public selves whom others knew, and private selves whom no one met. It was a compulsive world, and both sides were false. Many of us grew up in addicted families and learned this double life early by hiding from outsiders what life was really like at home.In this program we learn to live our truth before we can speak it. It is more in our actions than in what we say. We may never know the words for this truth because we do not consciously invent it. It comes to us quietly over time and slowly merges all our parts. Gradually we begin to feel whole again as we surrender our double lives for single, truthful ones.Let me have the trust to give myself to the work of recovery and follow it where it takes me.

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Touchstones by Anonymous

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