Pilgrims Anonymous

Thoughts for food

1. Who says that so called self-help groups make people dependant? A least addiction maybe... How many people can walk through their whole life with no clutch of their own? Do not remove the addict's clutch if you cannor offer him anything else.
2. When a neighbor's kid kills himself, no wonder, it is bad education. But when one's own kid does the same... When a neighbor's kid is gay or lesbian...
3. "What my parents could not teach me for any reason, what school never taught me either, suffering did it." -- Anonymous Pilgrim
4. He had mercy on the psychologist who, as the clergyman, found nothing else to tell him that he enjoyed his shitty situation and would not come out of it by any means. Meanwhile the psychologist killed himself and the clergyman indulges in delusion. As for him, he is now a silent pilgrim much like an illegal passenger. Theology, psychology, astrology; philosophy, metaphysics, esoterism; what's all that noise about? Destiny, predestination, are they not the same as genetics, heredity? Many diseases run in families including mental diseases (schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism...) "Ancestors ate rotten grapes and children still have thooth aches after 4 or 5 generations." (The Bible)
5. To a young lad, a beautiful woman is a desire; to a monk, she is a distraction; to a wolf, she is a good meal! - Zen Proverb
6. What is consciousness? What is one aware of? Self or personnal consciousness, religious, cosmic consciousness, christian consciousness or that of Krishna, professionnal, social, political consciousness, good or bad consciousness, being serene or guilty...
7. Quite interesting indeed is to study the life of saints and Great Masters... until one becomes a saint, that is to say one's own Great Master.
8. To make one's life a sacrifice or a show, what's the difference?
9. Being so willing to save the world, one must be wise enough not to get lost in it.
10. An Alcoholics Anonymous proverb goes: "A horse can be brought to a fontain but no one will force him to drink. No one will force him into drinking water if he only feels like drinking beer! or rancoeur, bitterness and ressentment."
11. Mental health, mental illness, geneticaly induced mentality (guilt)?
12. "Dysfonctionnal (troublesome, neurotic) people built castles in Spain, psychotics live there, and doctors collect the rent." -- Luc
13. May 2008 -- It's been five years now (since April 2003) that I've translated the SA Website into French and I am getting desperate about starting such groups. It seems impossible to know what is happening in US. NSF seems no longer to exist, its Website is dead and that of SA has returned to its previous URL with no e-mail adress. Il still look after the French SA Website and those of French ADD Anonymous and AFGs for the only enjoyment of doing so. But being honnest, I end up doubting the relevancy of these Groups, the concept of which -- which originates in very ancient times (Buddhists, Franciscans, Stoicians, Pythagoreans, etc.) -- is most often imported -in Quebec at least- without discrimination. I subscribed to AFGs for 27 years! I would not have survived anywhere else! Residual schizophrenia? Nonetheless, for whatever it is, you may give it a try just for the fun of it ! -- Gulemo
14. How useful is the verb 'to love', when the loved one will not conjugate it? -- Teen grafiti