Today's Thought - September

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September 17

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

~Muhammad Ali

We only truly become ourselves from the inside out. During our active addiction, many of us tried so hard to please others that we lost any sense of who we were, or we created an external image that would get others to like us. Some of us lost ourselves in codependently taking care of others. So much focus on others never led us to know ourselves or truly develop our interior private self.

This program, with its twelve suggested Steps, is really a road map for the formation of a true self. At the beginning, we may feel empty inside, as if hardly any self exists. But at least some small, undeveloped self is always there, and it will grow. By taking inventory of ourselves, by becoming accountable for our actions, and by developing our spirituality, we become truly whole.

Today, I will be the person I know from inside myself and not try to create an image to please others.

Today's reading is from the book Stepping Stones: More Daily Meditations for Men*