Drop The Rock Quotes

“If we are humble, we are open to new ideas and new ways of seeing things. Open-mindedness is a very important part of humility. We don’t know it all. There is still more we can learn. And maybe even more important, some we need to unlearn.”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Sloth is the thief of time. The character defect of putting off actions “until things get better” is one of the most destructive detours we can make. Delays never make problems “go away;” they only make success harder to attain.”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Devects - Steps 6 and Seven

“Prayer is of no use when it is not used. Prayer is not only a matter of belief, it is a matter of practice. We can’t get caught in the trap of dogma or method. Prayer is not about right or wrong or “should” or “only.” It is about a personal or individualized way to talk with God or our Higher Power or Universal Energy or the collective unconscious or whatever we want to call it. Prayer is not about someone else telling us how to pray or what to say. It is about communication.”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Devects - Steps 6 and Seven

“fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“As we’re taught in the Twelve Steps, the chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear. Mainly fear that we would lose something we already possessed or that we would fail to get something we demanded. Living on the basis of unsatisfied demands, we obviously were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, we are taught, there will be no peace unless we are able to reduce these demands.”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Some of us come from families where we were not taught healthy emotional language and habits. We did not get a balanced perspective of the world and relationships, and some of us got a distorted view of where we stood in relation to the rest of the world. We felt (and many of us still do) less than. In order to make up for that, we learned to exaggerate and lie and blow our accomplishments way out of proportion in order to feel of some value. To succeed, we have to stop thinking we are less than other people. We tell ourselves we are not unworthy, inadequate, or unable to cope fully with life’s problems. We begin to see the glass as half full instead of half empty. We have to get rid of feelings of inability before we can make progress. As we learn more about how false pride has held us back from our full potential, we remember, “If we change our thoughts, we can change ourselves.”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Devects - Steps 6 and Seven

“Courage is what makes us do the right thing even when nobody else is doing it.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop The Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“God give me the courage and strength to know who I really am, to act accordingly in my life, and to refrain from diverting my time, energy, and interest into my character defects.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“To become the person we can become, we must drop the rock—all the grasping and holding on to old patterns of behaving, thinking, and feeling that are harmful to ourselves and to others.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Many of us still think our value as a human being is in what we do or what we don’t do, rather than who we are.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“I don’t get to choose which defects God will remove.”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“of our prayer and meditation.”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“I cannot open a flower with a sledgehammer—”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Without emotional and spiritual recovery, you don’t have much. You have abstinence, and you may not even have that for very long. If you don’t follow the “clear-cut” directions of our Program, you can’t move into receiving God’s directions.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“We all know individuals in recovery who have given up the booze or another addiction, yet they are staying dry or abstinent only by redirecting their intense inner misery into the lives of others.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“definition of sarcasm is “a cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound,”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Armed with humility, we who once dreaded change as much as death can learn to face real life with a new courage and hope.”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Prayer is seeing answers and direction in life. Meditation is listening for answers from a Higher Power and developing the ability within ourselves to accept the answers.”
― Bill P., Drop the Rock: Removing Character Devects - Steps 6 and Seven

“The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. From Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., published by AA World Services, Inc., New York, N.Y., 59–60.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Trust comes through action. By acting worthy of trust, we gain the trust of others and ourselves.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“What exactly is humility? The dictionary defines humility as “the state or quality of being humble of mind or spirit; absence of pride or self-assertion” or “acts of self-abasement.” Humble is defined as “having or showing a consciousness of one’s defects or shortcomings; not proud; not self-assertive; modest.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“F.E.A.R. = Frustration, Ego, Anxiety, and Resentment.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Many of us confuse having sex with being intimate. Many of us think that being accepted sexually is the same as being loved, only to be disappointed again and again. Many of us use sex to act out our aggression and hate of the opposite sex, in many different acts and obsessions. Men, in particular, seem to be drawn toward pornography and can have very active fantasy lives with very little contact with reality.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Benjamin Franklin said, “Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Envy is a form of fear. Just like pride, envy has a lot to do with results—other people’s. We envy the things, jobs, friends, relationships, status, and just about everything else that someone else has. We are taught to envy by advertisers and the media. We must keep up with the Joneses. We must live the lifestyle as shown in the beer commercials. We have to have the newest and the best and the biggest and the brightest. We fear we won’t get the “good things” and resent when others do.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Many of us still think our value as a human being is in what we do or what we don’t do, rather than who we are. We think our value is about results—the car we drive, the person we marry, the house we live in, the job we have, the vacation we take, the clothes we wear. We’ve shifted the emphasis from who to what. Taking a look at pride means gaining a new perspective and looking again at who we are, not exclusively at what we have or do.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“The first of the Seven Deadly Sins is pride (excessive belief in one’s own abilities). Our society is very confused about pride. Religion teaches us that pride goes before the fall. Psychology teaches us that a healthy sense of pride is essential for full functioning in the world. The Program teaches us that the misuse of pride and the misapplication of pride have been part of the biggest cause of our problems.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“The first act is awareness, second is acceptance, then third is surrender (action). Once we have chosen to be willing to surrender, we move on to those things that can help our surrendering and our awareness of what it is we’re giving up. The choice to surrender, the becoming entirely ready, is just that—a choice. Awareness, however, is an entirely different matter. To make surrender effective, we must be willing to help the process by using our awareness to move into line with the surrender. We must choose to act “as if.” Our awareness must shift so we become aware when we aren’t acting in accordance with that choice. Changing our awareness can be a slow process, or it can be instantaneous.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

“Choosing to move into willingness and being willing to choose (in other words, being willing to take responsibility) is a positive way of living. It is saying, “Hey, I’m worth moving toward being different without pain and resentments. I value myself and others enough to choose to make changes now rather than wait until I can’t stand not making a choice.” It is a completely different perspective than waiting until it hurts to make choices. The majority of us are very aware of our defects of character, but often it isn’t until we are “sick and tired of being sick and tired” that we become willing to change.”
― Bill Pittman, Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven