Lunes, Marzo 10, 2008 ~ Life goes on within us and without us. This is the life we live and once we achieve a certain level of higher cosmic consciousness we are the ones who choose how we live of our own free will, just as we consciously create our day as co-creators with the Creator or we fall into social circumstances beyond our immediate control. We create our day as divine winners, not as victimized losers.
Yesterday was a nice day. Miss Marie came by, she urged me to wash and dry my bed linen, especially because she saw Angel the cat on the bed. She does not get along with our four-legged furry cousins and that is a key area where she needs more Spiritual Growth.
We sat and conversed, went for a short walk to the store on such a beautiful day and watched the Conversations With God movie on DVD I ordered from Netflix. All-in-all, we had a nice pleasant placid day.
Later on, I went on my own to do the CASA 12-Steps Meeting. At the CASA Meeting we discussed Drugs & Cross-Addiction and related issues. We agreed that if one is taking a mind-altering pharmaceutical drug, whether prescribed or not, then one cannot claim any sobriety day if we define sobriety as a physical-biological state.
1 Thessalonians 5:6Main Entry: 1so•ber
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Pronunciation: \ˈsō-bər\
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): so•ber•er \-bər-ər\; so•ber•est \-b(ə-)rəst\
Etymology: Middle English sobre, from Anglo-French, from Latin sobrius; akin to Latin ebrius drunk
Date: 14th century
1 a: sparing in the use of food and drink : abstemious b: not addicted to intoxicating drink c: not drunk
2: marked by sedate or gravely or earnestly thoughtful character or demeanor
3: unhurried, calm
4: marked by temperance, moderation, or seriousness [a sober="" candlelight="" vigil=""]
5: subdued in tone or color
6: showing no excessive or extreme qualities of fancy, emotion, or prejudice
synonyms see serious
So we need to define the general terms we use, especially when we have absorbed and incorporated those definitions into our consciousness without really thinking about them but simply because the Big Book, the experts or the nebulous 'they' say so, not from our own private pondering, fathoming and really considering what those terms really mean for us in workable ways.
I relate to the term sobriety in the sense of being serious-minded, which for me includes being sober in the physical sense, especially because we are most in tune with Cosmic Consciousness when we are sober in the fullest sense of the word. I drink coffee, smoke cigarettes and not all I eat is toxic-free. How many of us actually take the time to read the Ingredients in the snack foods and stuff that we eat? What is mind-altering in terms of a drug? I think that a better term would be mind-damaging, as mind altering can be so vague that it loses its meaning.
Nada mas ahora... dentist appointment!
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