thanks john for your reply re clarifying to a post. i was sort of confused too. in my experience looking back at the wrongs done to me only keep me in that place. not moving forward. i realize your frustration of previous experiences but please know, imho, that holding on to what has previously happened is in the past. it cannot be changed. we can only live in today and look forward to the journey/path we've chosen for the now. i'm still unclear re stating one day at a time doesn't work for you. in truth that is all we have. we have no way of "predficting" our future days. just my opinion. if we take on a goal and don't work today on that goal/vision the final goal will not materialize. however any positive way we find we can progress is all that matters. there are many ways to achieve sobriety. i wish you well on your path.
here are some quotes i like re "living one day at a time".
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It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula LeGuin
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Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.
Robert J. Hastings
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The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.
Frank Herbert
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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck
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It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours..~Ayn Rand
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