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Before you say I can't, say I'll try.

Just for today.

No pain, no gain.

The Mishna teaches (tractate Avos, 4:17) that an hour of Teshuva (penitence) and good deeds in this world is worth more than the entire World to Come, yet a minute in the World to Come is more sublime than all the pleasures of this world combined.From the above Mishna, we...

"Rabbeinu Yonah discusses various barriers to teshuva in Sha'arei Teshuva. But perhaps the greatest barrier most of us experience is a lack of belief in our capacity to change" -Yonason Rosenblum The following excerpts were taken from www.sexualcontrol.com Just about anyo...

Someone wrote: Although I am clean just three weeks, I feel like this whole tumah thing is a million miles away. Like it was just a bad dream. I try to imagine it and I think to myself, "what, I did such things?". So I guess I am ripe for the Yetzer Hara to catch me off g...

Even some things that are technically by definition "Good" (like Torah and Teshuva) can cause problems if not used according to the Owner's manual. And in my opinion, the ultimate rule of the "Owner's manual" is: if it actually results in me finally living a sane and usef...

One time is too many and a thousand never enough.

Half measures availed us nothing.

Help is only a phone call away.

The price for serenity and sanity is self-sacrifice.

To keep it, you have to give it away.

Call your sponsor before, not after, you start acting-out.

Change is a process, not an event.

Let go of old ideas.

Count your blessings.

When all else fails, follow directions.

The Rambam is famously quoted as saying that every person has the potential to become like Moshe Rabbeinu. But compare that with a piece taken out of a shmuz given by Rav Shlomo Freifeld Ztz'l: "The Chovos Halevavos says that there is a cheshbon hanefesh, a way of introsp...