Spiritual Basis of Life

0:00Oh and Sam, give on the hour. And all in because the people in New Year morning hear this morning, God. It is March the 2nd, hope everyone's well, from open doors with it. Many souls talk about faith, but fail to live by it. Those same souls talk about loving me, but do not know the first thing about love. It is a waste of time talking about loving someone. You have not seen. When you are incapable of loving those souls, you have all around you and who needs your love, wisdom and understanding. First learn to love those souls who might place in your immediate surroundings. Then you will know what it means to love me truly. Why grope your way through life? When all you have to do is stride firmly through it in faith and confidence, knowing that I am with you.

1:02Here I am holding out to you all my good and perfect gifts. But if you will not accept them, you cannot benefit from them. Free me, I give them to you. Free me, you have to accept them. And then use them wisely for the benefits of the whole. It is interesting, you know, those people that have been put in our place, you know, sometimes they are the trickiest people. And you know, I always go back to that saying, you know, you do not have to, you know, if you love everyone in the fellowship, you do not have to like them all. If you have set in family members that, you know, have a lot of programme and they are not, you know, they are quite detrimental to you to some people.

2:05You know, I always remember, because you just help them for giving your life, you know, and you do not choose to engage with them. That is okay. You know, you can love comes in many different forms, doesn't it? You know, gratitude is a form of love. You can be grateful that, you know, you were born. And if that is it, that is it. You know, there are some people that are unfortunate. They haven't been good parents and they didn't know how to. And other people, you know, they've chosen not to see them. And that's their choice, you know, you don't have to engage with them. It doesn't mean that you don't appreciate or have gratitude, you know, which is a form of love.

3:06And there are certain people that, you know, they're vibrating on such a different level from you that you just remain neutral around them, if you can. You know, you can say they're sick man-prayer and, you know, realise that they're, you know, acting from a lower status of consciousness and your vibration doesn't match theirs. And sometimes they can drain your energy. So, you know, you don't have to, you can love all humans if they're all, you know, part of God, if we're all in part of one whole, but you don't have to choose to spend your time with them if they're detrimental to your own health. I believe, make me wrong. Yes.

4:09Prayer, big subject from Monday morning. I have changed my attitude from hating people and, you know, to actually their spirit she's sick. And that's a big step in the right direction for me. Mm-hmm. And I can see that, you know, all life is precious and, you know, we have the opportunity to change and, unfortunately, some people don't. And that's where, you know, we have the choice not to engage our energy with us. It's pretty well, you know, we're giving pretty well. And... Whoa. Okay, hello. What was it, Dad? Mm-hmm. You can still work on, you know, your forgiveness to others and, you know, acceptance of them. And it... But, you know, when it says, in our men's,

5:11you know, you make men's for people, but not if it's going to harm them or you. You know, there are some people that we can choose not to engage with. So, yeah. Perhaps my take on that meeting. We're a bit splattering and cough-free, aren't we? Coffee. Yes. I think we're playing the... Except the blip-flip, something from... The little virus. I think, no. I'll just pick that up. To be doomed to not call it death, or to live in a spiritual basis, I'm not always the easy alternative to face. Page 424. We ignore sticks. But it isn't so difficult. About half of our original fellowship went over exactly that type. At first, some of us tried to avoid the issue, hoping against hope we were not true alcoholics.

6:14But, after a while, we had to face the fact that we must find a spiritual basis of life, or else. Perhaps it's going to be that way with you. Chew up something that half of us thought we were atheists or ignore sticks. Our experience through is that you need not be disconcerted. If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life was sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago. But we found that such codes and philosophies did not save us no matter how much we tried. We could wish to be moral. We could wish to be philosophically comforted. In fact, we could well these things with all our might. But the needed power wasn't there. Our human resources, as marveled by the well, were not sufficient. They failed, utterly.

7:18Hmm. I like that, you know, a spiritual basis of life, or else. Yeah. I mean, so this time I got a file, so I was going to talk about that. Then, you know, half of our people were covered immediately. 25% recovered quite clearly, and then 25% didn't. They benefited from the process. And, you know, these are stunning outcomes. You know, it was about, you know, going back to the previously term, you know, faith that works as dead, and putting into action the idea of surrender and, you know,

8:19how those cleaning and the man's and, you know, invention and, um, help another. You know, helping our colleagues, you know, and the results are phenomenal. And it's sensitive, you know, don't worry, you know, it's not so difficult about half of our community, you know, it's done. And, you know, it's like this type, you know, you just... give it a go. You know, don't be disconcerted. You know, just, just try. You know, just be willing, open, honest. Um, give it a go. Because, well, what's the choice? Yeah. Who else? I would call it, and people do choose that, you know, the pride, the will, you know, it gets in the way.

9:27The content is prior to investigation. What have you got to lose, literally, try it, you know, go through the steps. So basically, the, you know, the steps are shown that you will have a spiritual weak thing, you know, as a result of the steps, as a result of the living, first of the living steps, you know, the spiritual weakening. I have some altitude, you know, and it's like, well, to, to the programme from alcoholism addiction, you know, in terms of so, spiritual malady, that the spiritual weakening is kind of objective. So what we're saying is put aside your skepticism and put the effort and, you know,

10:30make an honest effort and have the willingness to try and, you know, the, and the early days, the people that you had to, you had tremendous results, people on the spiritual weakening. So it's kind of like, well, go into the bed today, I didn't, or else. How is that appealing? Or do this, how does spiritual weakening, which is, what is that? And it's like the, you know, I don't know what you're talking about, and the thing I was listening to, you know, is that an awareness. You know, you suddenly have a more awareness of the kind of the flow of life, you know, the reality of nature, the, you know, the ascents of

11:34there's a lot of what was on in society is the equal, you know, and it's kind of like, so in some respects, having an awakening can be difficult, you know, because of the suddenly you're looking at a lot of what was on in life is being a bit, a bit fake, a bit artificial or a bit, or a lot of healing, you know, a lot for you, you know, and so there's quite a lot of disruption in your life as you go through this process. It starts to question a little more, and you change. You're more aware of your behaviour and you know, how you've been stuck in your own head and not seen the bigger picture, and so that's the insanity is not seeing the whole truth. We haven't seen the whole truth. We've been so stuck in our own

12:39misery that we haven't realised the impact that we've been having, and how everyone else was reacting around us, and you know, to suddenly wake up, it's waking up, and I'm growing up, and you know, it's like getting the blinkers removed, yeah, and seeing, seeing actually what the real picture, instead of tunnel vision, yeah, got white skin, it was like, oh my goodness, why on earth did not I see the bigger picture? Why was I so stuck in the dark in the tunnel, you know, causing destruction when I shouldn't have been helping? I remember hearing a meeting, you know, this guy said, resentments were childish, you know, and it's kind of like, you know, what you're talking about, you know, that feeling of love for the people around you, even when they're annoying, and it's like,

13:40to have resentments is childish, you know, I don't know, wait, then you know, I'm growing up, and it's like, well, you know, they're, they're not very well, are they, they're like adult children, you know, I say this of, you know, understanding, more clarity, understanding, and compassion, and, you know, an ability to not react to your thoughts, that the only thoughts of annoyance. Well, I was so annoying when I was drinking, well, I can't share the same passion to other people that got other problems, it just manifests in different ways, doesn't it? The problem is that they don't often get better, and you know, that's where passion fatigue is sometimes stays. Yeah. Well, because we're human, we're human, but we've got an awareness now,

14:46and we can understand that that person's spiritual sick, and for me, you know, have that position of neutrality instead of complete hatred, which stays in my body, and makes me feel resentment and anger in our, you know, body isn't good for us, you know, causes illnesses, so it's selfish to actually be more compassionate because it makes us free. No. That's enough, I think, for us. Yes. Yes. Thank you, Taz. Well, I'm playing solo.