Higher Power, God, Spiritual Addiction, Religion, Spiritual Attitude, etc.

All you ever wanted to know about Heaven and the Sefiros.

Call today @ 1:20, as Serenity explains it all in a 'down-to-earth' manner.

You will exit the call 'walkin'-on-air' (believe it or not).

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Step 1
As we bring you back from heaven.

cordnoy wrote:

reminds me of the song "Why can't we just stay in heaven?" by John Sequitor

ZemirosShabbos wrote:


or, "steps out of Heaven" by Elvis Costello

Stairway To Heaven

Gevura Shebyesod wrote:


My apologies.

Actually for this song, we were tryin' to exit heaven.

You can go down the stairs too

We are also formin' an email group.
If interested, post here, or send me an email please; thanks!

Dial In Number:
U.S: 605 562-3130
From Israel: 076-599-0000
From UK: 0330 606 0182

Participant PIN: 340483#
Call will be from 1:20 - 1:45 EST iy"H.

Step 1!
White book and Big book

No pressure to say anythin' at all!

For local call in numbers from other countries,email me please or look on gye phone page..

Dial In Number:
U.S: 605 562-3130
From Israel: 076-599-0000
From UK: 0330 606 0182

Participant PIN: 340483#
Call will be from 1:20 - 1:45 EST iy"H.

Step 1!
White book and Big book

No pressure to say anythin' at all!
No need to introduce yourself.

We will have a first-step share today @ 1:38

For local call in numbers from other countries,email me please or look on gye phone page..

I would like to start an email group for this call. if you are interested in joinin', let me know please.
We already have a group of 6 - 8 fellows who joined yesterday.
Thanks

Avrohom/Cordnoy

Dial In Number:
U.S: 605 562-3130
From Israel: 076-599-0000
From UK: 0330 606 0182

Participant PIN: 340483#
Call will be from 1:20 - 1:45 EST iy"H.

Step 1, 2 and 3 with a step 4 intro.
White book and Big book

No pressure to say anythin' at all!
No need to introduce yourself.

We have an email group of 10, and there were close to 20 callers the past two days.

b'hatzlachah

Abbreviated call today, beginnin' at 1:00.

Saw this:

There's an old Jack Benny bit where a mugger jumps out of the bushes and says, "Your money or your life." Benny just stands there doing nothing until the mugger gets irate and shouts, "I said, 'Your money or your life!'" Finally Benny snaps back, "I'm thinking. I'm thinking."

I am an addict. For me, giving up my addiction is like Jack Benny giving up his money. If you tell me, "Your object of desire or your life," my answer is, "I'm thinking. I'm thinking."

Let me explain to you what it means - to me - to be a recovering addict. Repeated experience has made it abundantly clear that I can either have everything I ever wanted out of life OR I can have the object of my desire. I can't have both. If I work my program of recovery, all my dreams come true. If I have one drink/bite/look, I turn my life into a living hell. But that's not what makes me an addict. What makes me an addict is that - for me - that's actually a tough call to make.

I suppose that since I am in recovery it means that, in the end, I keep deciding that my life is more important to me than my addiction. But that's not a decision that I arrive at without a great deal of daily deliberation. Whenever I am distressed - or sometimes even for no reason at all - I contemplate whether or not I should just at out and let all of the chips fall where they may. After indulging this perverse fantasy for a while, I ultimately decide that it's not a decision I'm prepared to make - not because I wouldn't like to, but because I can't live with the consequences. I know that I will just end up in so much pain that I will have to give up and - if I don't die or go insane first - go back to recovery again anyway. So I choose life. But it's not an instinctive choice. That's how messed up I am. Are you beginning to understand?

Why do I act out?

You know why I act out? I act out because it takes me away from "me." I don't like being "me." Not that I think I would be any happier being someone else, but I definitely don't like being "me." I like numbness. Mental numbness. My mind goes so fast. My brain won't shut up. The thoughts produce feelings faster than my puny heart can bear. My addiction takes care of that. Acting out quiets the "me" and the less "me" there is, the better I feel. When I am really good and drunk, I have these beautiful moments where, suddenly, it doesn't even hurt so much to be "me."

In recovery I have learned that I can get from my relationship with G-d everything that I ever wanted to get out of my addiction. When I give myself up to G-d, it doesn't hurt so much anymore to be "me."

I guess that's really why I stay sober. I know that I said earlier it's because I am afraid of the misery and insanity and death that my acting out would bring. But that's not the real reason. Misery and insanity and death just aren't big enough deterrents to keep an addict like me sober very long. They might be able to scare me straight for a while, but they're not enough to keep me sober day after day. No, the real reason I stay sober is because all I ever wanted from acting out I can get from my relationship with G-d.

And do you know what it was that I wanted out of acting out? Acting out promised that if I could just get rid of "me" long enough, then in that quiet, I would somehow finally be "me."

This is the truth that I've found ~ real life begins when you learn to love G-d with the very heart that loves to act out.

"I'm thinking. I'm thinking."
Cordnoy what you wrote was very deep, especially the last 3 paragraphs. Could you give us some sources for your drasha (Jack Benny too), or elaborate more, so we can get you?

markz wrote:


Jack Benny is brought down by the rishonim in the sugya of ben drudayah....The rest I do not know unless you have specific question.