Archive for February, 2010


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The 12 Steps

Published on February 19, 2010

When you are addicted and your life has become insurmountable, there are massive obstacles to reaching enlightenment. However, when you recognize and use the power of Divinity, your life becomes miraculous. The 12 Steps in any form is an enormously powerful way to rid the self of dependence on anything in your life. Although the original 12 steps began with AA, these steps used fundamentally have helped people all over the world with serious personal issues. Remember God calibrates at infinity, so calling forth the will and power of God, supersedes your own will which is only as powerful as your personal level of consciousness.

• Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable
• Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
• Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
• Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
• Step 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
• Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
• Step 7 - Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
• Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
• Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
• Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
• Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out
• Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs

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Weekly Kabbalah Tune Up…2/14/10-2/20/10

Published on February 14, 2010

Get to the Root
When faced with issues, rather than invest time and energy to solve the problem often we try to move the problem - either to someone else’s desk, someone else’s department, or even someone else’s city.

I saw this in plain sight when I visited the Philippines last month. The government there is working hard to transfer many of Manila’s homeless to a different city. However, they are being moved; not empowered, educated, enlightened or encouraged. It’s a transfer. Not a solution. The problem still exists. Just not on the streets of Manila.

It’s not enough to move a difficult employee to another branch. I heard that the new ’solution’ for nuclear waste is to set it adrift on a barge. At least then, the nuclear energy won’t sit one place. No, this way it will reach many different places. Good move.

Moving problems never solves the issue. The problems still exists, even if you don’t have to see it or smell it.

In our own lives, we often try to move our own issues around, without actually trying to solve them. We may squelch one addiction, only to develop another one; because we’ve transferred the need, instead of getting to the root and removing it. We may fill one sense of emptiness, but if there are general insecurity or inadequacy issues, and they are not addressed on a causal level, they will pop up in another area of our lives.

When things look okay, it doesn’t mean that they are okay. Even when the sanitation trucks leave our neighborhoods, remember, the refuse goes somewhere else.

I know many people who’ve moved jobs or houses in search of something better. But because they seek to change their environment, without taking responsibility to change themselves, only the scenery changes. The issues stay the same. You can’t quit a job because of a tyrannical boss. That boss will show up in a different costume on a different set at your next job. This isn’t my prediction. This is a spiritual truth.

Out of sight, out of mind doesn’t work - not spiritually or physically.

This week, let’s take an honest look at our issues, even the ones we think we’ve overcome. Have we really resolved the issues, or have we simply displaced them? Are we looking for solutions on the outside, when the real solution is to change the inside?

All the best,
Yehuda


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