9 quotes
We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
Difficult personalities are a mirror for the places where we get stuck in judgment, fear, and confusion.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
As we walk the path of Refuge Recovery, we gradually uncover a loving heart.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
Everything is impermanent—every pleasure, every pain, every body. But the survival instincts crave permanence and control. The body wants pleasure to stay forever and pain to go away forever.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
We must do away with any shred of denial, minimization, justification, or rationalization. To recover, we must completely and totally understand and accept the truth that addiction creates suffering.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
Mindfulness is defined as nonjudgmental, investigative, kind, and responsive awareness. This sort of awareness takes intentional training of the mind.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
The cause of our suffering has always been our reaction to the thoughts, feelings, cravings, and circumstances of our lives. The cause of our addictions has always been the indulgence in the behaviors or substances.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
While we are in recovery we need to be able to strike a balance between not allowing our ego to do all the talking and not letting our low self-esteem to only present what is wrong with us.
Refuge Recovery (2014)