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A friend in Program says:

We don't live in the kind of environment that monks and nuns live in. We live in what we call "the real world," and in that "real world" the commodity that is at a premium is not work, or even money, but time.

Most of us have a job that takes at least eight hours a day. Or perhaps we are stay-at-homers, in which case there seems to be no limit to the amount of time we may spend working. In addition to our jobs, we have other responsibilities: children, pets, social groups, church or other religious affiliations; and then a list of "wants" -- things we would like to do, if only we had the time.

Confronted with Step 11, the first things many of us say is, "I just don't have the time." Friends who do set aside quiet time typically seem to dedicate twenty or thirty minutes at least. Out of the sixteen or so crowded hours when we are actually awake each day, that may seem an impossible demand.

Perhaps we should start with just five minutes -- a commitment to five minutes which we stick to, no matter what. If there is anything in this "quiet time" business, perhaps we'll find some of it in those five minutes. And if we do find it, perhaps that in turn will enable us to find five more minutes. And five more, and five more ....

"The spiritual life is never one of achievement:
it is always one of letting go."

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