AA step 3: “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”
By request: "Doc referred to the 3rd step as being sufficient to reach (realize) enlightenment."
Quotes
"Everything happens for a reason"
Calibration of the statement
"You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son"
Calibrates false, a quote attributed to Swiss educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (d.1827). By request.
“The deepest love and the highest truth are one and the exact same”
by request
"When we have compassion, pain dissolves into love."
Quote by Stephen Levine, by request.
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"
Iconic quote from John F. Kennedy's inaugural address.
"can't see the forest for the trees"
Wisdom of this saying, by request.
"Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease."
verse 5 of the Dhammapada, cal. 840 (TvF)
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right.”
Quote attributed to Henry Ford.
shalom
"a Hebrew word meaning peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquility and can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye." --wikipedia
Søren Kierkegaard quotes
Quotes about prayer, love, and the meaning of life, calibrated.
crass
"lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence" --google dictionary
fatuousness
"the quality of being stupid, not correct, or not carefully thought about" --Cambridge dictionary
Allahu akbar
"a phrase meaning ‘God is most great’, used by Muslims in prayers and as a general declaration of faith or thanksgiving." --google dictionary
"there is nowhere else to go, you are already there"
by request