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November 2009 | Steps

Sitting in silence, listening

A woman with a chronic illness uses the Eleventh Step to connect to her Higher Power

In early sobriety it was suggested to me that I think of prayer as talking to God and meditation as listening. That idea took hold. I sobered up in 1972; in 1984 I learned how to meditate at a Catholic retreat center, under a priest who had spent 25 years in Japan studying Zen Buddhism. That was my introduction to the practice of meditation, and it took.

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