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“Peace comes within the souls of men, when they realize their oneness with the universe, when they realize it is really inside of each one of us.

Black Elk  Lakota Medicine Man

 

 

 

 

 

When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be?

Big Book  pg. 53

  

 

 

...most individuals cannot recover unless there is a group. Realization dawns that he is but a small part of a great whole; that no personal sacrifice is too great for the preservation of the Fellowship… He learns that the clamor of desires and ambitions within him must be silenced whenever these could damage the group. It becomes plain that the group must survive or the individual will not.

Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions  pg. 130

 

 

  

 

Grandfather help me realize my oneness with your universe.