Substance Abuse by Sheri Mabry Bestor

Author:Sheri Mabry Bestor [Bestor, Sheri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2013-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

Faith-Based Recovery

Some choose a faith-based recovery program as a stand-alone program. Others find it or bring it into another recovery treatment. Faith, religion, and spirituality can be integrated into these methods and the holistic ones you’ll learn about in the next chapter.

The scope of world religions is great. Often the messages within a faith can resonate and help guide recovery. The following messages are from various religious or spiritual leaders and might be inspiring for someone struggling to find his or her way out of addiction.8

“Truth is high, higher still is truthful living!”—Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, Sikhism

“For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.”—Bistami, philosopher and mystic, Islam, Sufism

“To cease to be identified with the body, to separate oneself from the body-consciousness, is a recognized and necessary step whether toward spiritual liberation or toward spiritual perfection and mastery over Nature.”—Aurobindo Ghose, philosopher, poet, and mystic, Hinduism

“Return to the origin and keep to the origin.”—Ho Shang Gong, Daoism

“Wishing to establish his own character, he also establishes the character of others, and wishing to be prominent himself, he also helps other to be prominent.”—Confucius, founder of Confucianism

“For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will move this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.”—Jesus Christ, founder of Christianity

“Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.”—Bodhidharma, founder of Chan Buddhism, Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan)

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