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A SPIRITUAL AXIOM


It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is

something wrong with us.

12 & 12, p. 90


I never truly understood the Tenth Step’s spiritual axiom until I had the following

experience. I was sitting in my bedroom, reading into the wee hours, when suddenly I

heard my dogs barking in the back yard. My neighbors frown on this kind of disturbance

so, with mixed feelings of anger and shame, as well as fear of my neighbor’s disapproval,

I immediately called in my dogs. Several weeks later the exact situation repeated itself

but this time, because I was feeling more at peace with myself, I was able to accept the

situation–dogs will bark–and I calmly called in the dogs. Both incidents taught me that

when a person experiences nearly identical events and reacts two different ways, then it

is not the event that is of prime importance, but the person’s spiritual condition. Feelings

come from inside, not from outward circumstances. When my spiritual condition is

positive, I react positively.

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