Monday, July 26, 2021
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
When the mind is still …it returns to itself, and by means of itself ascends to the thought of God. -- Saint Basil the Great
Our path is not leading us toward a physical place but toward the kind of person we are becoming. The Twelve Steps guide us to use daily meditation as a tool that helps us shape this new person. We take time for quiet moments, we still our thoughts, and in the stillness, without effort, our minds naturally open to introduce ourselves to ourselves. We become increasingly honest with ourselves, and some would say we hear the voice of God.
Daily readings can set a calming tone. Then we take a period of time, perhaps twenty minutes, for solitude undisturbed by others or by distracting phones or television. We find that when we set aside this quiet time, we actually seem to have more time, not less, for the other demands in our lives.
Today, I will take a period of quiet time to come back to myself.
Hazelden Foundation
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