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Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free. -- Melody Beattie
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We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world. -- Melody Beattie
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Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87 -- Melody Beattie
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I used to be afraid of pain, didn't take a lot of risks, especially in love. I'm not as afraid anymore. I'm more spontaneous, more likely to say what I think. -- Melody Beattie
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Feeling good about ourselves is a choice. So is feeling guilty. -- Melody Beattie
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We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware ... Often, we feel uncertain about what to do with all this awareness. -- Melody Beattie
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A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior. -- Melody Beattie
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What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know. -- Melody Beattie
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It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear. -- Melody Beattie
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I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do. -- Melody Beattie
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Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself. -- Melody Beattie
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When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours. -- Melody Beattie
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The vocation of putting people straight, of tearing off their masks, of forcing them to face the repressed truth, is a highly dangerous and destructive calling, -- Melody Beattie
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Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy. -- Melody Beattie
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Gratitude turns what we have into enough. -- Melody Beattie
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Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs. -- Melody Beattie
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We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will tell myself that I'm lovable. Just because some people haven't been able to love me in ways that worked doesn't mean that I'm unlovable. I've had lessons to learn, and some of them have hurt deeply, but I can still love, and I still am loved. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will honor, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that I need to be true to myself. I will break free of the hold that others-and their expectations-ha ve on me. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me. -- Melody Beattie
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God loves me enough to let me go through all the lessons I came here to learn, even the ones that hurt the most. His presence doesn't deny me. It's always there to help me see and understand what I came to this planet to learn. -- Melody Beattie
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God, help me let go of my need to deprive myself of being alive. -- Melody Beattie
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God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change. -- Melody Beattie
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What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves. -- Melody Beattie
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Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go. -- Melody Beattie
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Recovery is not only fun, it is simple. It is not always easy, but it is simple. It is based on a premise many of us have forgotten or never learned: Each person is responsible for him- or herself. It involves learning one new behavior that we will devote ourselves to: taking care of ourselves. -- Melody Beattie
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Taking time to rest, renew, and refresh yourself isn't wasted time. Recharge. Choose what energizes you. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will strive for balance. -- Melody Beattie
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Perspective will come in retrospect. -- Melody Beattie
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Map Your Own Journey Go on your own journey. Don't let others hold you back; don't hold them back. Don't judge their journey, and don't let them judge yours. All persons are free to have the experiences their souls lead them to. -- Melody Beattie
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Each life needs its own quiet place. -- Melody Beattie
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Spontaneity emerges as our confidence and trust in ourselves increase, and we become more secure in our ability to maintain healthy boundaries. -- Melody Beattie
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Recovery is not about being right; it's about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame. -- Melody Beattie
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The plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us. -- Melody Beattie
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Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you. -- Melody Beattie
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We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths -- Melody Beattie
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Panic is our great enemy. -- Melody Beattie
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Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts happen. Take responsibility for yourself each step of the way. Trust the new shape and form of your world -- Melody Beattie
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Ultimately, too much dependency on a person can kill love. Relationships based on emotional insecurity and need, rather than on love, can become self-destructive. They don't work. Too much need drives people away and smothers love. It scares people away. -- Melody Beattie
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I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn. -- Melody Beattie
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Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests. -- Melody Beattie
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You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet. -- Melody Beattie
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Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe. -- Melody Beattie
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We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without. p 167
love always found itself again. -- Melody Beattie
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God, help me let go of my need to be afraid. I welcome peace, trust, acceptance, and safety into my life. I will make a point of listening to my healthy, rational fears, and will relinquish all the others. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will trust that God will do for me what I cannot do for myself. I will do my part - working the Twelve Steps and letting God do the rest. -- Melody Beattie
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Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like and approve of myself. The people who count (including me) will respect me when I'm true to who I really am. -- Melody Beattie
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Codependents appear to be depended upon, but they are dependent. -- Melody Beattie
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Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home. -- Melody Beattie
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Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal. -- Melody Beattie
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Except for normal human emotions we would be feeling anyway, and twinges of discomfort as we begin to behave differently, recovery from codependency is exciting. It is liberating. It lets us be who we are. It lets other people be who they are. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will do something just for the fun of it. I will find something to do that's just for me and I won't worry about what I should be doing. I will learn how to make myself feel good and enjoy life to the fullest. -- Melody Beattie
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Sharing the emotional part of us with others creates closeness and intimacy. Also, being accepted by someone else for being who we are helps us accept ourselves. This is always a marvelous experience. -- Melody Beattie
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Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast. -- Melody Beattie
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Living our lives may not be an exciting prospect to some of us either. Maybe we've been so wrapped up in other people that we've forgotten how to live and enjoy our lives. -- Melody Beattie
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Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it. -- Melody Beattie
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Who you are is love. What love does is heal. -- Melody Beattie
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Of all the judgments that we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves, for that judgment touches the very center of our existence. ... No significant aspect of our thinking, motivation, feelings, or behavior is unaffected by our self-evaluation ... . -- Melody Beattie
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Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive. -- Melody Beattie
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Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors. -- Melody Beattie
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I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation. -- Melody Beattie
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Even recovery brings losses, more changes we must struggle to accept. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will let things happen without worrying about the significance of each event. I will trust that this will bring about my growth faster than running around with a microscope. I will trust my lessons to reveal themselves in their own time. -- Melody Beattie
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I've learned that I have many, many soul mates here, and they come to me at the right time and in the right place. They come to help me when I'm lost, and each comes with different sets of lessons for me
usually, always, my most intense lessons
the ones my soul came here to learn. -- Melody Beattie
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Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world. -- Melody Beattie
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Detaching does not mean we don't care. It means we learn to love, care, and be involved without going crazy. -- Melody Beattie
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When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do. -- Melody Beattie
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I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what's happening now instead of what's going to happen tomorrow. -- Melody Beattie
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Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two. -- Melody Beattie
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I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be. -- Melody Beattie
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You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose. -- Melody Beattie
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Rest when you're tired. Take a break when life stales. Take time to recharge your battery. Energy isn't something you have - it's something you are. To give and give and give, to put out without taking in, depletes your battery. It drains you, runs you down. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share. -- Melody Beattie
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We learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will focus on a peaceful pace, rather than a harried one. I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically. I will let go of my need to be anxious and upset and will replace these feelings with calmness and harmony. -- Melody Beattie
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Go easy. You may have to push forward, but you don't have to push so hard. Go in gentleness, go in peace. Do not be in so much of a hurry. At no day, no hour, no time are you required to do more than you can do in peace. -- Melody Beattie
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When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float. -- Melody Beattie
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Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just when you're in trouble. Pray every day. Surround yourself with prayer. You never know when you might need an extra miracle. -- Melody Beattie
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Codependents: don't trust themselves. don't trust their feelings. don't trust their decisions. don't trust other people. try to trust untrustworthy people. -- Melody Beattie
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Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment -- Melody Beattie
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Can you feel the rush? Listen quietly. It's there. It's the sound of a life and spirit being set free. God, help me set myself free from ridiculous and unnecessary expectations. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I'm not helpless. Although help may come, I'm my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will surrender to discipline. I realize that sometimes it takes time to see the fruits of my labors, yet I still need to practice discipline. Help me to remember, God, that I'm moving forward, and that I'm learning the very important art of discipline. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others' affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out their own problems, including the ideas and feelings they want to communicate to each other. -- Melody Beattie
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The more we are focused on controlling and changing others, the more unmanageable our life becomes. The more we focus on living our own life, the more we have a life to live, and the more manageable our life will become. -- Melody Beattie
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We stop worrying about them, and they pick up the slack and finally start worrying about themselves. What a grand plan! We each mind our own business. Earlier, I described a person caught in -- Melody Beattie
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The pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound. -- Melody Beattie
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We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet. -- Melody Beattie
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Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give. -- Melody Beattie
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Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not. -- Melody Beattie
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We can let ourselves enjoy life. If we want something and can afford it, buy it. If we want to do something that is legal and harmless, do it. When we're actually involved with doing something that is recreational, don't find ways to feel bad. Let go and enjoy life. -- Melody Beattie
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I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214 -- Melody Beattie
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When you let go of fear and the need to control, you'll experience how mysterious, sacred, and interesting Life can be. -- Melody Beattie
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Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls. -- Melody Beattie
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Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, God, help me practice the concept of acceptance in my life. Help me accept myself, others, and my circumstances. Take me one step further, and help me feel grateful. -- Melody Beattie
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Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems. -- Melody Beattie
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Fun is a normal part of being alive. Fun is taking time to celebrate being alive. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will not wait for others to see and care; I will take responsibility for being aware of my pain and problems, and caring about myself. -- Melody Beattie
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A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105 -- Melody Beattie
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Today, God, help me to know that it is okay to allow myself to be human. Help me not to feel guilty or punish myself when I need to "fall apart. -- Melody Beattie
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Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same. -- Melody Beattie
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Quit hanging on to the handrails ... Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day. -- Melody Beattie
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Codependents make great employees. They don't complain; they do more than their share; they do whatever is asked of them; they please people; and they try to do their work perfectly - at least for a while, until they become angry and resentful. -- Melody Beattie
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No - simple to pronounce, hard to say. -- Melody Beattie
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The greatest gift we can bring to any relationship wherever we go is being who we are. -- Melody Beattie
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Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes when you let go of a broken dream, another one gently takes its place. Be aware of what is, not what you would like to be, taking place. -- Melody Beattie
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Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God. -- Melody Beattie
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We do not lead others into the Light by stepping into the darkness with them. -- Melody Beattie
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Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe. -- Melody Beattie
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Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating. -- Melody Beattie
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People may get angry at us for setting boundaries; they can't use us anymore. They may try to help us feel guilty so we will remove our boundary and return to the old system of letting them use or abuse us. Don't feel guilty and don't back down. -- Melody Beattie
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Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings. -- Melody Beattie
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Sometimes, we don't get what we want ... But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do. -- Melody Beattie
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We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later. -- Melody Beattie
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Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road. -- Melody Beattie
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Start today to follow your heart.
Map out your own journey.
Have the adventure of a lifetime. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself. -- Melody Beattie
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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't. -- Melody Beattie
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It's easy to see and notice what we like in other people. Sometimes, it's not as easy to see the attributes and beauty in ourselves. It's good to see the beauty in others. But sometimes, take a moment and get excited when you notice what's beautiful in yourself, too. -- Melody Beattie
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Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart. -- Melody Beattie
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If we abdicate responsibility for our choices, we may become angry, sometimes full of rage at others for running our lives, for telling us what to do. We need to take responsibility. We need to trust ourselves. -- Melody Beattie
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Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you. -- Melody Beattie
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Surrendering to a Power greater than ourselves is how we become empowered. -- Melody Beattie
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Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state. -- Melody Beattie
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People and things don't stop our pain or heal us. In recovery, we learn that this is our job, and we can do it by using our resources: ourselves, our Higher Power, our support systems, and our recovery program. -- Melody Beattie
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We have as much time as we need. -- Melody Beattie
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Don't give up hope. It took many of us twenty years or more to acquire these protective behaviors we umbrella with the word codependency. It may take as much time as that to let go of them. -- Melody Beattie
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Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that crisis reaction has become a habit. -- Melody Beattie
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Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving.
Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself.
But most of all, remember to be happy. -- Melody Beattie
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Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will practice healthy giving, understanding that caretaking and compulsive giving don't work. I choose what I want to give, to whom, when, and how much. It takes time to learn how to give in healthy ways. It takes time to learn to receive. Balance will come. -- Melody Beattie
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Codependency is about normal behaviors taken too far. It's about crossing lines. -- Melody Beattie
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I'd like to make a motion that we face reality. - BOB NEWHART, FROM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW -- Melody Beattie
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Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty. -- Melody Beattie
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I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again. -- Melody Beattie
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Everything comes at its appointed moment. - Joseph R. Sizoo -- Melody Beattie
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If you have done nothing to feel embarrassed about, don't feel embarrassed. I know this is a tough concept, but it can be mastered. -- Melody Beattie
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Others do not have our magic. We have our magic. It is in us. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will wait if the way is not clear. I will trust that out of the chaos will come clarity. -- Melody Beattie
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We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt. -- Melody Beattie
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If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect. -- Melody Beattie
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For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.1 - II TIMOTHY 1:7 -- Melody Beattie
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If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will know that I don't have to worry about anything. If I do worry, I will do it with the understanding that I am choosing to worry, and it is not necessary. -- Melody Beattie
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In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there. -- Melody Beattie
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Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable ... -- Melody Beattie
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Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves. -- Melody Beattie
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Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long. - ANONYMOUS -- Melody Beattie
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We can ask for information and use words to forge a closer connection, but we don't have to take people around the block with our conversations. We don't have to listen to, or participate in, nonsense. We can say what we want and stop when we're done. -- Melody Beattie
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Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect. -- Melody Beattie
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The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs. -- Melody Beattie
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When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves. -- Melody Beattie
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There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it. -- Melody Beattie
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If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave. -- Melody Beattie
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If we are unhappy without a relationship, we'll probably be unhappy with one as well. A relationship doesn't begin our life; a relationship doesn't become our life. A relationship is a continuation of life. -- Melody Beattie
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The only person you can now or ever change is yourself. The only person that it is your business to control is yourself. -- Melody Beattie
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Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves. -- Melody Beattie
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Beliefs create reality -- Melody Beattie
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Today, everything I need shall be supplied to me. -- Melody Beattie
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It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage. -- Melody Beattie
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Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay. -- Melody Beattie
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Do we really have the right to take care of ourselves? Do we really have the right to set boundaries? Do we really have the right to be direct and say what we need to say? You bet we do. -- Melody Beattie
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Self-care isn't selfish; it's self-esteem. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will apply the concept of detachment, to the best of my ability, in my relationships. If I can't let go completely, I'll try to "hang on loose. -- Melody Beattie
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Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now. -- Melody Beattie
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The only limitations on you are the ones you've placed on yourself. -- Melody Beattie
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As I've said before, no wonder we think God has abandoned us; we've abandoned ourselves. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will watch myself and listen to myself as I go through my day. I will not judge myself for what I'm feeling; I will accept myself. -- Melody Beattie
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The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect. -- Melody Beattie
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Other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours -- Melody Beattie
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The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it. -- Melody Beattie
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The formula is simple: In any given situation, detach and ask, What do I need to do to take care of myself? -- Melody Beattie
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There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals. -- Melody Beattie
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Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34. -- Melody Beattie
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Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress. -- Melody Beattie
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We rescue people from their responsibilities. We take care of people's responsibilities for them. Later we get mad at them for what we've done. Then we feel used and sorry for ourselves. That is the pattern, the triangle. -- Melody Beattie
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It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good. -- Melody Beattie
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The test, the mark, of a person that's on a spiritual path is whether they can live in harmony. -- Melody Beattie
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Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free. -- Melody Beattie
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It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right. -- Melody Beattie
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Today, I will understand that I hold the key to my freedom. I will stop participating in my oppression and victimization. I will take responsibility for myself, and let others do as they may. -- Melody Beattie
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When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God. -- Melody Beattie
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I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we're not supposed to know
we're supposed to trust ourselves to discover it. -- Melody Beattie
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Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.' -- Melody Beattie
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If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting. -- Melody Beattie
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Love yourself just as you are. -- Melody Beattie
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This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be. -- Melody Beattie
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We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated. -- Melody Beattie
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy. -- Melody Beattie
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Panic, not the task, is the enemy. -- Melody Beattie
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You need to detach most when it seems the least likely or possible thing to do. I -- Melody Beattie
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Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more. -- Melody Beattie
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Control is an illusion ... -- Melody Beattie
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We work it out, or live it out. -- Melody Beattie
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Set boundaries even when you're scared, and when it doesn't feel comfortable to do. Eventually setting boundaries will happen naturally for you, -- Melody Beattie
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We've realized that women have souls, and men have feelings. -- Melody Beattie