Someone read this in a meeting yesterday and it really stayed with me:
An old Cherokee Indian was speaking to his grandson:
"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil--he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good -- he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too."
The grandson thought about it for a long minute, and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
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"I answer to two people, myself and God... and I don't give a s#*% what anyone else thinks of me."-- Cher
Even cooler is that the speaker looked in his wallet to pull out the passage, and discovered he didn't have it, so he tried reciting it from memory, but couldn't do it after a couple of tries... and then someone in the back of the room jumped up and said, "I have it! I have it!" and pulled the same passage out of her wallet for him to use!
HP at work.
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"I answer to two people, myself and God... and I don't give a s#*% what anyone else thinks of me."-- Cher
I love this. I had heard it before and I think about it a lot. I did a challenge for myself on this where I put a box on my desk and every time I complained, I put a dollar in it. (I told everyone in my office to let me know if I complained and point it out as well, just in case I missed it). At the end of the month I gave the money in the box to an organization that feeds the homeless. I highly reccommend giving this a try. I found if I knew I couldn't complain about stuff, I didn't think about it as much. Like, "well I"m not going to get any sympathy here, so I'm really only bothering myself by dwelling on it" and moved on to something else. Very rewarding. When I have more days down and am feeling more stable I will do it again. Right now I need to be able to bitch even if it doesn't necessarily make me happier, to keep me from picking up.
i like this too. I was told a similar story when i was in day centre relapse prevention.
it went like this
the red dog is the mean one who is disease and it wants me to drink, it gets stronger when i dont do the program.
the blue dog is the good one, a part of me that wants to live and live a good life and it gets stronger when i do the program
and yep the one that gets stronger is the one that i feed. i guess if i feed that red dog too much its going to get strong enough to bite me bad so i must not feed it and i must feed and strengthen up that blue dog as much as possible.
its a really nice story
-- Edited by slugcat on Saturday 17th of April 2010 08:08:13 PM
