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Dear friend of Bill W.,
The idea keeps persisting that the instincts are
primarily bad and are the roadblocks before which all
spirituality falters. I believe that the difference
between good and evil is not the difference between
spiritual and instinctual man; it is the difference
between proper and improper use of the instinctual.
Recognition and right channeling of the instinctual
are the essence of achieving wholeness.
from page 287 of As Bill Sees It
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When I came into recovery, I was a broken individual, grieving her best friend. I had to fill that voice with spiritual things. I had to look for food to fill my body, mind, and spirit to make me complete and whole within myself. I had to channel my thought to healthy things. Anything in excess took my life out of balance, and I had to learn to give away as well as take.
When I become needy, I become greedy. When I am greedy, I am back wanting 'more' and that generally takes me outside of myself looking for affirmation, love, acceptance, validation, and self-worth, respect, esteem, all things I can get by going within and connecting to my HP.
That is why I call my HP my (W)Holy Spirit. He completes me and makes me whole.