Always Recovering
@alwaysrecovering.bsky.social
Author of the fantastic recovery novel.
The Alcoholic: A Hero Contends for His Soul https://a.co/d/eX4LXfD
Audiobook. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DQLWGV6C?source_code=ORGOR69210072400FT&share_location=player_overflow
The Alcoholic: A Hero Contends for His Soul https://a.co/d/eX4LXfD
Audiobook. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DQLWGV6C?source_code=ORGOR69210072400FT&share_location=player_overflow
My actions are my only true belongings:
I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
March 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My actions are my only true belongings:
I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I think that if God forgives us, we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting-up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
— C.S. Lewis
— C.S. Lewis
March 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I think that if God forgives us, we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting-up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
— C.S. Lewis
— C.S. Lewis
God in your decision-making process?"
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
March 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
God in your decision-making process?"
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
has put a period."
Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.
- Richie Norton
Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.
- Richie Norton
March 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
has put a period."
Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.
- Richie Norton
Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.
- Richie Norton
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:31-32
Ephesians 4:31-32
March 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:31-32
Ephesians 4:31-32
If love is the measure, the only measure of love is love without measure.
- Augustine
- Augustine
March 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If love is the measure, the only measure of love is love without measure.
- Augustine
- Augustine
fragile a clay piggybank can be."
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
— Aristotle
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
— Aristotle
March 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
fragile a clay piggybank can be."
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
— Aristotle
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
— Aristotle
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most
March 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most
Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature. Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God.
— Donald L. Hick
— Donald L. Hick
March 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature. Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God.
— Donald L. Hick
— Donald L. Hick
If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time.
Your life will become better by making other lives better.
- Will Smith
Your life will become better by making other lives better.
- Will Smith
March 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time.
Your life will become better by making other lives better.
- Will Smith
Your life will become better by making other lives better.
- Will Smith
The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.
— Rumi Jalalu'l-Din
— Rumi Jalalu'l-Din
February 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.
— Rumi Jalalu'l-Din
— Rumi Jalalu'l-Din
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
- Jack Welch
- Jack Welch
February 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
- Jack Welch
- Jack Welch
Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. It moves a person away from human personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength and expansion.
- Donald Curtis
- Donald Curtis
February 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. It moves a person away from human personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength and expansion.
- Donald Curtis
- Donald Curtis
Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. It moves a person away from human personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength and expansion.
- Donald Curtis
- Donald Curtis
February 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. It moves a person away from human personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength and expansion.
- Donald Curtis
- Donald Curtis
With the right attitude, self-imposed limitations vanish.
— Alexander the Great
— Alexander the Great
February 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
With the right attitude, self-imposed limitations vanish.
— Alexander the Great
— Alexander the Great
There is no true and constant gentleness without humility; while we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due us, and then nothing will disturb us.
— Francois De La Mothe
— Francois De La Mothe
January 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
There is no true and constant gentleness without humility; while we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due us, and then nothing will disturb us.
— Francois De La Mothe
— Francois De La Mothe
None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
— Dean Koontz
— Dean Koontz
January 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
— Dean Koontz
— Dean Koontz
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.
— Helen Keller
— Helen Keller
January 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.
— Helen Keller
— Helen Keller
The King Baby mentality is driven by three motives - power, attention, and pleasure.
...Almost everything we do has strings attached and creates indebtedness to us.
We fear rejection of our real selves, so we present a false, invented person to the world.
- Harry M. Tiebout, M.D.
...Almost everything we do has strings attached and creates indebtedness to us.
We fear rejection of our real selves, so we present a false, invented person to the world.
- Harry M. Tiebout, M.D.
January 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The King Baby mentality is driven by three motives - power, attention, and pleasure.
...Almost everything we do has strings attached and creates indebtedness to us.
We fear rejection of our real selves, so we present a false, invented person to the world.
- Harry M. Tiebout, M.D.
...Almost everything we do has strings attached and creates indebtedness to us.
We fear rejection of our real selves, so we present a false, invented person to the world.
- Harry M. Tiebout, M.D.
Self-centered people have only one topic to talk about... THEMSELVES."
- Stef Harder
- Stef Harder
January 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Self-centered people have only one topic to talk about... THEMSELVES."
- Stef Harder
- Stef Harder
If you try to run away from pain, there is no way out. Only by looking deeply into the nature of your fear can you find the way out.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Thich Nhat Hanh
January 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you try to run away from pain, there is no way out. Only by looking deeply into the nature of your fear can you find the way out.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
— Alan Simpson
— Alan Simpson
January 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
— Alan Simpson
— Alan Simpson
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
— Plato
— Plato
January 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
— Plato
— Plato
Can someone explain why a congressman would vote against deporting criminal illegals migrants?
January 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Can someone explain why a congressman would vote against deporting criminal illegals migrants?