New Posts For Thread: Credit where credit is duehttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43881/14649035/Credit_where_credit_is_due"Thus i believe the greatest positive event of the twentieth century occured in Akron Ohio on June 10 1935 when Bill W and Dr Bob convened the first AA meeting. It was not only the beginning of the self-help movement and the beginning of the integratIt is one of those rare books that is alive and reaches out to the reader and beckons "transformation"I have read it through six times and each time it is freshThe only other book i have read since then that has had that transformative power is "thehttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43881/14649035/Credit_where_credit_is_due?post_id=294658505#294658505It is one of those rare books that is alive and reaches out to the reader and beckons "transformation"I have read it through six times and each time it is freshThe only other book i have read since then that has had that transformative power is "theTue, 26 May 2009 20:53:35 -0500I read somewhere that The Road Less Travelled was CG Jung translated for the masses. It's time for me to reread the book again. I'm sure I'll pick up a lot more this time. I read the book 14 years ago.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43881/14649035/Credit_where_credit_is_due?post_id=294639578#294639578I read somewhere that The Road Less Travelled was CG Jung translated for the masses. It's time for me to reread the book again. I'm sure I'll pick up a lot more this time. I read the book 14 years ago.Tue, 26 May 2009 19:36:31 -0500Yep, He even admitted himself that the road was not saying anything new yet it came at a time when people were ready to awakenhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43881/14649035/Credit_where_credit_is_due?post_id=294432615#294432615Yep, He even admitted himself that the road was not saying anything new yet it came at a time when people were ready to awakenMon, 25 May 2009 18:50:16 -0500Ray,Much like Robert Frost who had his own semi-secret trysts with alcohol, and who famously quipped, "I am not a teacher, but an awakener." I loved reading both Peck and Frost in early sobriety, and there were several copies of "Road Less Traveled"http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43881/14649035/Credit_where_credit_is_due?post_id=294337913#294337913Ray,Much like Robert Frost who had his own semi-secret trysts with alcohol, and who famously quipped, "I am not a teacher, but an awakener." I loved reading both Peck and Frost in early sobriety, and there were several copies of "Road Less Traveled"Mon, 25 May 2009 08:15:01 -0500AS I am finding there is some paradoxical nature to my recovery that has some kind of mixture of my works and my faith??Yet this mixture is itself paradoxical like the notion of jesus being human and divineNot 50% of each but 100% human and 100% divihttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43881/14649035/Credit_where_credit_is_due?post_id=294304485#294304485AS I am finding there is some paradoxical nature to my recovery that has some kind of mixture of my works and my faith??Yet this mixture is itself paradoxical like the notion of jesus being human and divineNot 50% of each but 100% human and 100% diviMon, 25 May 2009 00:00:37 -0500If the road is less traveled then does that mean that faith has not been exercised or that gravity really sucks and all humanity is addicted to the grave, and thoroughly drunk by the endless rotation of the earth? Ya see the road is traveled by all ohttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43881/14649035/Credit_where_credit_is_due?post_id=293953736#293953736If the road is less traveled then does that mean that faith has not been exercised or that gravity really sucks and all humanity is addicted to the grave, and thoroughly drunk by the endless rotation of the earth? Ya see the road is traveled by all oSat, 23 May 2009 01:28:07 -0500In a public speech in Concord, NH about a dozen years ago, M. Scott Peck admitted in front of a couple of hundred people that he had a problem with alcohol, adding, "... I should probably go to AA." The remark, as related to me by a friend who was inhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43881/14649035/Credit_where_credit_is_due?post_id=293870257#293870257In a public speech in Concord, NH about a dozen years ago, M. Scott Peck admitted in front of a couple of hundred people that he had a problem with alcohol, adding, "... I should probably go to AA." The remark, as related to me by a friend who was inFri, 22 May 2009 17:17:55 -0500Science and spirituality can no more be integrated than can religion and science. AT best, they can reconcile themselves to the fact that science and religion reside in separate realms.At some point, however, I have more confidence in science's abilihttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43881/14649035/Credit_where_credit_is_due?post_id=293843179#293843179Science and spirituality can no more be integrated than can religion and science. AT best, they can reconcile themselves to the fact that science and religion reside in separate realms.At some point, however, I have more confidence in science's abiliFri, 22 May 2009 14:51:18 -0500well said.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43881/14649035/Credit_where_credit_is_due?post_id=293561705#293561705well said.Thu, 21 May 2009 08:37:17 -0500"Thus i believe the greatest positive event of the twentieth century occured in Akron Ohio on June 10 1935 when Bill W and Dr Bob convened the first AA meeting. It was not only the beginning of the self-help movement and the beginning of the integrathttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43881/14649035/Credit_where_credit_is_due?post_id=293497735#293497735"Thus i believe the greatest positive event of the twentieth century occured in Akron Ohio on June 10 1935 when Bill W and Dr Bob convened the first AA meeting. It was not only the beginning of the self-help movement and the beginning of the integratThu, 21 May 2009 00:01:36 -0500