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" A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling. "
Need
Different
Us
" A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them. "
People
Spiritual
Thoughts
" Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society. "
Control
Our
Society
" Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us. "
Like
Us
Chart
" I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid. "
Supposed
Tall
Afraid
" I am too old to think. "
Think
Too
I Am
" If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom. "
God
Life
Important
" I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain. "
Pain
Work
Young Man
" I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity. "
Myself
Time
Serenity
" I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God. "
Will
Learned
God
" Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. "
I Am
Intimacy
Reality
" I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it. "
Remember
Brother
Father
" I was taught that pain is bad. "
Bad
Taught
Pain
" I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid. "
Situation
Wine
Book
" My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you. "
Love Is
I Am
Hope
" No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady. "
Lady
Gentleman
Relationship
" Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. "
Wisdom
Truth
Pain
" Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. "
Spiritual
Calm
Pain
" Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded. "
Said
Day
One Day
" The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself. "
Symptoms
Denial
Primary
" There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart. "
Change
Heart
People
" The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked. "
Story
Good
Bible
" We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough. "
Afraid
People
Nation
" We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have. "
Feelings
Share
Intimate
" We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world. "
Family
Fear
Friends
" We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people. "
Jesus
People
Control
" What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual. "
Spiritual
Touch
Who
" You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done. "
Done
Situation
Want
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