Steps to a Truthful Heart
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Topic: Truth Seeking



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Re : Commentary on beginning the Steps to a Truthful Heart: Thsee steps help us get in right relationship to self, others, Spirit & Our World.
They start with putting ourselves in the best position to recieve help from the Universal Stream of Life...

The Steps were recently posted on the TruthfulHeart.com

site & on my website at luckyjoywells.com

The "Steps to a Truthful Heart" bear simiarities to the Steps adopted by the Oxford movement in the early 19th century, used and further adapted by any 12 step self - help programs beginning with Alchoholics Anonymous. This is the program I have worked to grow in self- responsiblity, self, truth & Heart- Awakening...


To work these steps at depth, First, we must...
"... be convinced that any life run on self- will can hardly be a success... On that basis we are almost always in collision with something or somebody, even (when) our motives are good.
"Most people try to live by self- propulsion. Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show... forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players..."
"What usually happens? The show doesn't come off very well. He begins to think life doesn't treat him right. He decides to exert himself more. He becomes, on the next occasion, still more demanding or gracious, as the case
may be. Still the play does not suit him. Admitting he may be somewhat at fault, he is sure that other people are more to blame. He becomes angry, indignant, self-pitying. What is his basic trouble? Is he not really a self-seeker even when trying to be kind? Is he not a victim of the delusion that he can wrest satisfaction and happiness out of this world if he only manages well? Is it not evident to all the rest of the players that these are the things he wants? And do not his actions make each of them wish to retaliate, snatching all they can get out of the show? Is he not, even in his best moments, a producer of confusion rather than harmony?"
" Our actor is self-centered, ego-centric, as people like to call it nowadays. He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all would be Utopia if the rest of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all and is locked up. Whatever our protestations are not most of us concerned with ourselves, our resentments, or our self-pity?"
"Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles.
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt." --- from the Big Book of Alchoholics Anonymous.

To see just how well this credo of "self- will" is working, we can just look at the results in the lives of others around us, and in our whole world....


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