In the quest for sustained sobriety and self-development, we must look outside of ourselves to discover our inner truths. Whether we are facing dependency or parenthood, marriage or meditation, everyone needs a guide to embolden their coping skills and settle in to a better, more balanced life.Touchstones has strengthened millions of recoveries for more than thirty years. Offering suggestions for deepening integrity, spirituality, and intimacy—a recovering man's trinity—it helps men transform addictive behaviors and thinking into an empowered manhood. This engaging self-help book, designed specifically for men, explores masculinity through informative, inspirational meditations. Touchstones offers profound advice for life's many changes and emphasizes the importance of recognizing the effects of common emotions such as anger, resentment, and fear. Its striking insight supports any stage of recovery, but the daily readings in this book are not simply for a better recovery; they are for a better, more balanced life. Continued awareness and involvement with these ideas provide ongoing personal growth. Although this growth is entirely our own, its benefits will be shared. Newfound mental health and wellness will spread infectiously to every relationship, with friends and family alike. Here, every manly struggle meets an insight. The cycle of addiction meets its end.

Selected meditations from Touchstones

Hazelden Educational Materials

illustrations by David Spohn

Hazelden Foundation

Hazelden Publishing

[New York, N.Y.]: Harper/Hazelden

HarperCollins Publishers

HarperSanFrancisco

Longman Publishing

Harper & Row

Hazelden meditation series, New York ; London ; Hazelden Foundation, 1986

Hazelden meditation series, [New York, N.Y.], New York State, 1986

Hazelden meditation series, Center City, Minn, ℗1988

1st HarperCollins ed, San Francisco, 1987, ©1986

2nd ed., Center City, Minn, Minnesota, 1991

United States, United States of America

2nd ed., Center City, Minn., 1986

1st, First Edition, US, 1992

1st edition, January 1992

Reissue, 1992

July 1, 1996

类型: 图书

出版日期: 1992.01

出版社: HarperCollins Publishers

页码: 370

开本: $0.01

价格: 5.8 x 4 x 0.8 inches

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

topic: Twelve-step programs; Men; Devotional calendars

Type: 英文图书

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1. (p1) INTRODUCTION
2. (p2) January
2.1. (p3) January 1 He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. -Dutch Proverb
2.2. (p4) January 2 When you can't stand criticism you learn to be a perfectionist. -Anonymous
2.3. (p5) January 3 Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. -Ursula K. Le Guin
2.4. (p6) January 4 There is no method or discipline or sys-tem of any kind that can ever com-mand the spirit to he present. -Tom Sampon
2.5. (p7) January 5 Be able to be alone. Lose not the ad-vantage of solitude. -Sir Thomas Browne
2.6. (p8) January 6 Being human is difficult. Becoming hu-man is a Ufelong process. To be truly human is a gift. -Abraham Heschel
2.7. (p9) January 7 To be happy one must risk unhappi-ness; to live fully one must risk death and accept its ultimate decision. -]udd Marmor
2.8. (p10) January 8 In wildness is the preservation of the world. -Henry David Thoreau
2.9. (p11) January 9 Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. -Hannah Arendt
2.10. (p12) January 10 If you don't take chances, you can't do anything in life. -Michael Spinks
2.11. (p13) January 11 All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its full value, go win it. -Munger
2.12. (p14) January 12 I should be content to look at a moun-tain for what it is and not as a comment on my life. -David Ignatow
2.13. (p15) January 13 The perfection of innocence, indeed, is madness. -Arthur Miller
2.14. (p16) January 14 If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? -Hillel
2.15. (p17) January 15 Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. -ItaUan Proverb
2.16. (p18) January 16 What lies behind us and what Ues be-fore us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
2.17. (p19) January 17 Wherever I found the living, there I found the will to power. -Friedrich Nietzsche
2.18. (p20) January 18 Communication leads to community-that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing. -Rollo May
2.19. (p21) January 19 Self-realization is not a matter of with-drawal from a corrupt world or narcis-sistic contemplation of oneself. An in-dividual becomes a person by enjoying the world and contributing to it. -Francine Klagsbrun
2.20. (p22) January 20 How good and how pleasant it is that brothers sit together. -Psalm 133
2.21. (p23) January 21 There are things for which an uncom-promising stand is worthwhile. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
2.22. (p24) January 22 The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge. -Moses Luzzatto
2.23. (p25) January 23 Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of un-scheduled pleasure. -Richard lannelli
2.24. (p26) January 24 You have got to know what it is you want, or someone is going to sell you a bill of goods somewhere along the line that can do irreparable damage to your self-esteem, your sense of worth, and your stewardship of the talents that God gave you. -Richard Nelson Bolles
2.25. (p27) January 25 A richer, more fulfilling, and more peaceful masculine spirituality will de-pend in no small measure upon new ways of learning to be sexual. -fames B. Nelson
2.26. (p28) January 26 Within every man there is the reflection of a woman, and within every woman there is the reflection of a man. Within every man and woman there is also the reflection of an old man and an old woman, a little hoy and a little girl. -Hyemeyohsts Storm
2.27. (p29) January 27 When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. -Bill Lemley
2.28. (p30) January 28 To perceive is to suffer. -Aristotle
2.29. (p31) January 29 We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. -Ruth Benedict
2.30. (p32) January 30 Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it. -Archibald MacLeish
2.31. (p33) January 31 The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin? -Philo Judaeus
3. (p34) February
3.1. (p35) February 1 Who of us is mature enough for off-spring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. -Peter De Vries
3.2. (p36) February 2 To be alive is power, Existing in itself, Without a further function, Omnipotence enough. -Emily Dickinson
3.3. (p37) February 3 Compassion is...a spirituality and a way of living and walking through life. It is the way we treat all there is in life -ourselves, our bodies, our imagina-tions and dreams, our neighbors, our enemies....Compassion is a spiritu-ality as if creation mattered. It is treat-ing all creation as holy and as divine...which is what it is. -Matthew Fox
3.4. (p38) February 4 Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it -what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and mis-deeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone. -Carlos Castaneda
3.5. (p39) February 5 The human animal needs a freedom sel-dom mentioned: freedom from intru-sion. He needs a little privacy quite as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise. -Phyllis McGinley
3.6. (p40) February 6 Behind an able man there are always other able men. -Chinese Proverb
3.7. (p41) February 7 We cannot merely pray to You, O God, to end war; For we know that You have made the world in a way That man must find his own path to peace Within himself and with his neighbor -Jack Riemer
3.8. (p42) February 8 If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. -Gaelic Proverb
3.9. (p43) February 9 The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil. -Hannah Arendt
3.10. (p44) February 10 In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few. -Shunryu Suzuki
3.11. (p45) February 11 Too much agreement kills a chat. -Eldridge Cleaver
3.12. (p46) February 12 I am not bound to win, hut I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. -Abraham Lincoln
3.13. (p47) February 13 It is a cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present. -J. A. Spender
3.14. (p48) February 14 The less able I am to believe in our ep-och and the more arid and depraved mankind seems in my eyes, the less I look to revolution as the remedy and the more I believe in the magic of love. -Hermann Hesse
3.15. (p49) February 15 If I truly showed my feelings, the other guys would eat me alive. It's too dog-eat-dog out there to he honest about the things that really count to you. You can't leave yourself wide open like that. -Michael E. McGill
3.16. (p50) February 16 Hatred is never anything but fear-If you feared no one, you would hate no one. -Hugh Downs
3.17. (p51) February 17 It takes more courage to reveal insecuri-ties than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ''manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. -Alex Karras
3.18. (p52) February 18 Love can be its own reward. -Arnold Lobel
3.19. (p53) February 19 He who has a why to Uve can bear with almost any how. -Nietzsche
3.20. (p54) February 20 That's what happens when you're angry at people. You make them part of your Ufe. -Garrison Keillor
3.21. (p55) February 21 The readiness is all. -William Shakespeare
3.22. (p56) February 22 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca
3.23. (p57) February 23 A man who studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. -Francis Bacon
3.24. (p58) February 24 It doesn't happen all at once...You become. It takes a long time. -Margery Williams
3.25. (p59) February 25 Every time I close the door on Reality, it comes in through the window. -Ashleigh Brilliant
3.26. (p60) February 26 I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? -Maurice Maeterlinck
3.27. (p61) February 27 Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. -Henri Amiel
3.28. (p62) February 28 All of my life I been like a doubled up fist...Poundin, smashing driving-now I'm going to loosen these doubled up hands and touch things easy with them. -Tennessee Williams
3.29. (p63) February 29 Power is strength and the ahiUty to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a circle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle. -Agnes Whistling Elk
4. (p64) March
4.1. (p65) March 1 As my fathers planted for me, so do I plant for my children. -The Talmud
4.2. (p66) March 2 The fir tree has no choice about start-ing its life in the crack of a rock....What (nourishment) it finds is often meager, and above the ground appears a twisted trunk, grown in irregular spurts, marred by dead and broken branches, and bent far to one side by the battering winds. Yet at the top...some twigs hold their green needles year after year, giving proof that -misshapen, imperfect, scarred -the tree lives. -Harriet Arrow
4.3. (p67) March 3 "Why are you rushing so much?" asked the rabbi. "I'm rushing after my HveU-hood," the man answered. "And how do you know" said the rabbi, "that your Uvelihood is running on before you, so that you have to rush after it? Perhaps it's behind you, and all you need to do is stand still." -tale about Rabbi Ben Meir of Berdichev
4.4. (p68) March 4 Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. -Sophocles
4.5. (p69) March 5 II not for the beast within us we would be castrated angels. -Hermann Hesse
4.6. (p70) March 6 A hoy must he initiated into the world of men. It doesn't happen hy itself; it doesn't happen just hecause he eats Wheaties. And only men can do this work. -Rohert Bly
4.7. (p71) March 7 A controller doesn't trust hisIher ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos. -Rita Mae Brown
4.8. (p72) March 8 Before the rain stops we hear a bird. Even under the heavy snow we see snowdrops and some new growth. -Shunryu Suzuki
4.9. (p73) March 9 We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. -Andre Berthiaume
4.10. (p74) March 10 There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. -Helen Keller
4.11. (p75) March 11 One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations. -Ludwig van Beethoven
4.12. (p76) March 12 No sooner do we think we have assem-bled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in. -Gail Sheehy
4.13. (p77) March 13 Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more, -Louis LAmour
4.14. (p78) March 14 This above all to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing. -Margaret Atwood
4.15. (p79) March 15 It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4.16. (p80) March 16 When a man's self is hidden from every-body else...it seems also to become hidden even from himself, and it per-mits disease and death to gnaw into his substance without his clear knowledge. -Sidney Jourard
4.17. (p81) March 17 The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is. -Saint Ailred of Rievaulx
4.18. (p82) March 18 Oh, that one could learn to learn in time! -Enrique Solari
4.19. (p83) March 19 There seemed not to be another Uving thing in all the world. There was some-thing of bliss in this stillness, and some-thing ominous too. It was the kind of stillness that beckons us to turn inward, toward the beginnings of our existence. -Paul Gruchow
4.20. (p84) March 20 New life comes from shedding old skins and pressing through the darkness toward the light. Spring is the season of new beginnings and of growth. -Karen Kaiser Clark
4.21. (p85) March 21 If I Had My Life to Live Over...I'd relax....I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers....I'd start bare-foot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies. -Nadine Stair
4.22. (p86) March 22 Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. -M. C, Richards
4.23. (p87) March 23 II anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. -Walt Whitman
4.24. (p88) March 24 I don't like a man to he too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. -Felix Frankfurter
4.25. (p89) March 25 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of mxIself if some people did. -Henry James
4.26. (p90) March 26 As long as I am constantly concerned about what I ''ought" to say, think, do, or feel, I am still the victim of my sur-roundings and am not liberated....But when I can accept my identity from God and allow him to be the center of my life, I am liberated from, compulsion and can move without restraints. -Henri J. M. Nouwen
4.27. (p91) March 27 Man is in love And loves what vanishes; What more is there to say? -W. B. Yeats
4.28. (p92) March 28 There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. -Han Suyin
4.29. (p93) March 29 Restless mans mind is, So strongly shaken In the grip of the senses....Truly I think The wind is no wilder. -Bhagavad-Gita
4.30. (p94) March 30 ]Ne all carry it within us; supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, un-quenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot he destroyed. But it is hid-den deep, which is what makes life a problem. -Huston Smith
4.31. (p95) March 31 Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half-sorrow. -Swedish Proverb
5. (p96) April
5.1. (p97) April 1 Any idea, person or object can be a Medicine Wheel ? mirror for man. The tiniest flower can be such a mirror, as can a wolf, a story, a touch, a religion, or a mountaintop. -Hyemeyohsts Storm
5.2. (p98) April 2 The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary focus of divine-human com-munion. -Thomas Berry
5.3. (p99) April 3 If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. -Jacques Cousteau
5.4. (p100) April 4 What is obvious to me is that we did not create ourselves...Ufe is some-thing inside of you. You did not create it. Once you understand that, you are in a spiritual realm. -Virginia Satir
5.5. (p101) April 5 When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. -Mark Twain
5.6. (p102) April 6 I had gone through life thinking I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me. -Dennis Wholey
5.7. (p103) April 7 Adversity introduces a man to himself. -Anonymous
5.8. (p104) April 8 I'm not into isms and asms. There isn't a Catholic moon and a Baptist sun. I know the universal God is universal....I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the pope is also the mother and father of the loneli-est wino on the planet. -Dick Gregory
5.9. (p105) April 9 It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a lit-tle. Do what you can. -Sydney Smith
5.10. (p106) April 10 Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order. -Hermann Hesse
5.11. (p107) April 11 I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one be-comes as a consequence of it. -Oscar Wilde
5.12. (p108) April 12 Anyone who lives art knows that psy-choanalysis has no monopoly on the power to heal....Art and poetry have always been altering our ways of sensing and feeling -that is to say, altering the human body. -Norman O. Brown
5.13. (p109) April 13 Are you willing to be sponged out, erased,I cancelled,I made nothing?I Are you willing to he made nothing?I dipped into oblivion?I If not, you will never really change. -D. H. Lawrence
5.14. (p110) April 14 A person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast. -E. B. White
5.15. (p111) April 15 Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart -it's all a man has. -Hubert Humphrey
5.16. (p112) April 16 A woman should be able to be both independent and dependent, active and passive, relaxed and serious, practical and romantic, tender and tough minded, thinking and feeling, domi-nant and submissive. So, obviously, should a man! -Pierre Mornell
5.17. (p113) April 17 It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. -George F. Will
5.18. (p114) April 18 Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain. -Eric Fromm
5.19. (p115) April 19 Some of us, observing that ideals are rarely achieved, proceed to the error of considering them worthless. Such an error is greatly harmful. True North cannot be reached either, since it is an abstraction, but it is of enormous im-portance, as all the world's travelers can attest. -Steve Allen
5.20. (p116) April 20 I wasn't exactly brought up in one of those Norman Rockwell paintings you used to see on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. -Reggie Jackson
5.21. (p117) April 21 The first skill needed for the Inner Game is called "letting it happen." This means gradually building a trust in the innate ability of your body to learn and to perform. -W. Timothy Gallwey
5.22. (p118) April 22 The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little. -Jonathan Swift
5.23. (p119) April 23 Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one can-not be friends with anyone else in the world. -Eleanor Roosevelt
5.24. (p120) April 24 I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. -Albert Camus
5.25. (p121) April 25 The natural world is a spiritual house....Man walks there through forests of physical things that are also spiritual things, that watch him with affectionate looks. -Charles Baudelaire
5.26. (p122) April 26 I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith-no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of intoxication, that alone. -Omar Khayyam
5.27. (p123) April 27 Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity. -Aristotle
5.28. (p124) April 28 Indeed, this need of individuals to be right is so great that they are willing to sacrifice themselves, their relation-ships, and even love for it. -Reuel Howe
5.29. (p125) April 29 I've never started a fight, but I never pulled hack from a fight either. -Billy Martin
5.30. (p126) April 30 A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction. -Rita Mae Brown
6. (p127) May
6.1. (p128) May 1 Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries of the universe. -Thomas Berry
6.2. (p129) May 2 Do not reveal your thoughts to every-one, lest you drive away your good luck. -Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 8:19
6.3. (p130) May 3 "Honesty" without compassion and un-derstanding is not honest, but subtle hostiUty, -Rose N. Franzblau
6.4. (p131) May 4 What if the interests of the self were expanded to...a God's eye view of the human scene...accepting failure as being as natural an occurrence as success in the stupendous human drama...as little cause for worry and concern as having to play the role of a loser in a summer theater performance. -Huston Smith
6.5. (p132) May 5 Living itself, [is] a task of such immedi-acy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace. -E. B. White
6.6. (p133) May 6 Little importance has been given to body awareness. The emphasis is on achievement rather than awareness. Yet it is only those athletes who have a highly developed kinesthetic sense -muscle sense -who ever achieve high levels of excellence. -W. Timothy Gallwey
6.7. (p134) May 7 The newest computer can merely com-pound, at speed, the oldest problem in relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be con-fronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. -Edward R. Murrow
6.8. (p135) May 8 Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. -Oscar Wilde
6.9. (p136) May 9 I learned from them that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it ki-netic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prince it with a little solitude and idleness. -Brenda Ueland
6.10. (p137) May 10 "You are accepted!"...accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do any-thing, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not per-form anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact you are ac-cepted. -Paul Tillich
6.11. (p138) May 11 There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned. -Harrison E. Salisbury
6.12. (p139) May 12 In my friend, I find a second self. -Isabel Norton
6.13. (p140) May 13 As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to he down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. -Marion Anderson
6.14. (p141) May 14 Often the wisdom of the body clarifies the despair of the spirit. -Marion Woodman
6.15. (p142) May 15 If you can't fight and you cant flee, flow. -Robert Eliot
6.16. (p143) May 16 The work will teach you how to do it. -Estonian Proverb
6.17. (p144) May 17 What sort of God would it be who only pushed from without? -Goethe
6.18. (p145) May 18 One should learn to enjoy the neigh-bors garden, however small; the roses straggling over the fence, the scent of lilacs drifting across the road. -Henry Van Dyke
6.19. (p146) May 19 The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. -Doug Larson
6.20. (p147) May 20 Truth is a demure lady, much too lady-Uke to knock you on the head and drag you to her cave. She is there, hut the people must want her and seek her out. -William F. Buckley, Jr.
6.21. (p148) May 21 Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. -Gerald Brenan
6.22. (p149) May 22 If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. -Rollo May
6.23. (p150) May 23 You see, I just can't stop! Or tie myself to any one. I have affairs that last as long as a year, a year and a half, months and months of love, both ten-der and voluptuous, but in the end -it is as inevitable as death -time marches on and lust peters out. -Philip Roth
6.24. (p151) May 24 Edith Bunker: I was just thinking. In all the years we been married, you never once said you was sorry. Archie Bunker: Edith, I'll gladly say that I'm sorry -if I ever do anything wrong. -Norman Lear
6.25. (p152) May 25 For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun; he has exte-riorized his rottenness. If he has not actually got rid of it, he at least no longer smears it over with a hypocriti-cal show of virtue. -William fames
6.26. (p153) May 26 A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
6.27. (p154) May 27 At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it. -Alan Watts
6.28. (p155) May 28 I sidestep the eitherIor choices of logic and choose both. -Ken Feit
6.29. (p156) May 29 We cannot approach prayer as we do everything else in our push-button, instant society. There are no prayer pills or enlightenment capsules. -Janie Gustafson
6.30. (p157) May 30 A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life. Frontiers pass, but they endure in their people. -Hal Borland
6.31. (p158) May 31 Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment. -Arthur Jersild
7. (p159) June
7.1. (p160) June 1 In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness...I see what people call God in all these things. -Pablo Casals
7.2. (p161) June 2 Remember! You're two different animals. Men and women cannot totally unite. -Pierre Mornell
7.3. (p162) June 3 Almost anything you do will be insig-nificant, but it is very important that you do it. -Mohandas Gandhi
7.4. (p163) June 4 I will thank you because I am marvel-ously made; your works are wonder-ful, and I know it well. -Psalms 139:14
7.5. (p164) June 5 Where there is no strife there is decay: "the mixture which is not shaken de-composes." -HeracHtus
7.6. (p165) June 6 Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even to-day words retain much of their magical power. -Sigmund Freud
7.7. (p166) June 7 A shortcut is often the quickest way to some place you weren't going. -Classic Crossword Puzzles
7.8. (p167) June 8 Come, Love! Sing On! Let me hear you sing this song -sing for joy and laugh, for I the creator am truly subject to all creatures. -Mechtild of Magdeburg
7.9. (p168) June 9 I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarified atmosphere of "true love." -Rita Mae Brown
7.10. (p169) June 10 We learn more by seeing someone play good tennis than by reading a book about how to play good tennis. -W. Timothy Gallwey
7.11. (p170) June 11 We are each so much more than what some reduce to measuring. -Karen Kaiser Clark
7.12. (p171) June 12 Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe-you can't take a taxi. -Alan Alda
7.13. (p172) June 13 You must fight off a "bad luck" way of thinking as if you were dealing with an invasion of hostile forces-for that is precisely what you are dealing with. -Maxwell Maltz
7.14. (p173) June 14 The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. -Max Lerner
7.15. (p174) June 15 A father is a thousand schoolmasters. -Louis Nizer
7.16. (p175) June 16 Its not hard. When I'm not hittin, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hittin', I hit anybody! -Willie Mays
7.17. (p176) June 17 The loneliness each man feels is his hunger for life itself....It is the yearn-ing that makes fulfillment possible. -Ross Mooney
7.18. (p177) June 18 Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner Ufe what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsi-ble for his choice and must accept the consequences. -W. H. Auden
7.19. (p178) June 19 Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. -Helen Keller
7.20. (p179) June 20 "Wait'll next year!" is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners. -Robert Orb en
7.21. (p180) June 21 In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's. -Ohiyesa, Santee Dakota
7.22. (p181) June 22 My father didn't tell me how to live; he Uved, and let me watch him. do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland
7.23. (p182) June 23 He who conceals his disease cannot expect to he cured. -Ethiopian Proverb
7.24. (p183) June 24 The only intrinsic evil is lack of love. -John Robinson
7.25. (p184) June 25 Some people greet the morning with a smile, but its more natural to protest its presence with sleepy sulkiness. ''Who asked you to come again?" we feel like saying to it, as if it were a most unwel-come guest. -Brendan Francis
7.26. (p185) June 26 God is near me (or rather in me), and yet I may be far from God because I may be far from my own true self. -C. E. Rolt
7.27. (p186) June 27 The tremor of awe is the best in man. -Goethe
7.28. (p187) June 28 We fear our highest possibility as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, -Abraham Maslow
7.29. (p188) June 29 A good indignation brings out all one's powers. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
7.30. (p189) June 30 There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that some-thing is wrong, but it takes some eye-sight to see what will put it right again. -Will Rogers
8. (p190) July
8.1. (p191) July 1 If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. -Raymond Inmon
8.2. (p192) July 2 Fair play is primarily not blaming oth-ers for anything that is wrong with us. -Eric Hoffer
8.3. (p193) July 3 Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
8.4. (p194) July 4 Freedom means the right to be differ-ent, the right to be oneself. -Ira Eisenstein
8.5. (p195) July 5 We shall describe conditions of the soul that words can only hint at. We shall have to use logic to try to corner per-spectives that laugh at our attempt. -Huston Smith
8.6. (p196) July 6 Is the inventor of the ear unable to hear? Is the creator of the eye unable to seel -Psalms 94:9
8.7. (p197) July 7 Those who are mentally

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Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.<br>
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<p>"One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man," Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tells us, but sometimes simply being a man can be a mighty struggle. Take heart from this companionable book of daily meditations, a year's worth of friendly words to cheer you on your way.</p>
<p>Speaking straight to men who are striving for serenity or trying to maintain emotionally and spiritually balanced lives, these daily touchstones begin with quotations from sources as varied as William Shakespeare, Wendell Berry, Michael Spinks, and Woody Allen and conclude with affirmations that underscore the lessons of intimacy, integrity and spirituality. They explore the masculine role of lover or spouse, father or friend and, like a helping hand extended, case the daily strain of making a man's way.</p>

The latest volume in the Hazelden Meditation Series, offering inspiring dailymeditations that address a variety of issues important to men recovering fromaddictions. Illustrated.

When we see how far we've strayed from being the kind of men we wanted to be, we are overwhelmed by how far we have to go to get back on the track.

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