We often hear it said in the community of addicts and alcoholics, “My best thinking got me here.” This usually evokes a few laughs
among us but I sometimes cringe when that thought is expanded upon and
supplemented by the implication that we ought not think at all. Three million
years of human evolution developed a fantastic organ between my ears that, like
any sophisticated tool, can be used to great affect if used properly. That is
what the dharma path, or the Twelve Steps, does for me. Becoming spiritually
awakened did not exclude becoming mentally equipped to deal with the realities
I face in my daily affairs. Frightfully, it is egocentric ignorance that is the
most devilish among my keepers of this cage I constructed restricting
everything that separates my spirit from that of the Sublime. This effort… this
discipline… takes mental acuity as well as spiritual awareness.
geo, 4,653
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