08.26.05

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his destiny.--Marguerite Duras

Today I am grateful...

• for yesterday's SRO crowd at the nooner, topic: Appendix ii, the Spiritual Experience
• for tales of burning bushes and awakenings of an educational variety
• that it has been a long time since I suffered from an emotional hangover
• that by others telling on themselves I stay sober
• that Ralph Fiennes is fine
• for my spirit guide as a child, Sippi Ambrose

One of my favorite quotes from the end of the chapter:

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation. -Herbert Spencer