Nick

“We ask ourselves if we’ve remembered to check in with our Higher Power periodically. Are we able to maintain gratitude to God for all that has been given us this day?”
― CoDA, CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS

“The first thing I remember learning was to be afraid of what other people would think of me. I now understand that this is what it means to be ruled by shame.”
― CoDA, CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS

“In giving the power of our Higher Power to other people, we may seek others’ approval, often to the point of abandoning our own needs and desires. We live in fear of those we put in power. We dread their anger or disapproving looks. We fear their disappointment, avoidance or control. In essence, we lose our sense of self (or never gain it) because we become obsessed with their attitudes and behaviors toward us.”
― CoDA, CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS

“For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.”
― Friedrich Max Müller, Dhammapada