Keith Miller quotes

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. (Keith Miller)
Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. View quote
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Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us. View quote
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There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart. View quote
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Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. View quote
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I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid. View quote
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I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity. View quote
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I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God. View quote
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My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you. View quote
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We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have. View quote
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Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society. (Keith Miller)
A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them. View quote
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I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain. View quote
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The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked. View quote
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A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling. View quote
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No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady. View quote
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The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself. View quote
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I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it. View quote
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I was taught that pain is bad. View quote
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I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid. View quote
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I am too old to think. (Keith Miller)
If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom. View quote
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We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world. View quote
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We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people. View quote
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The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality. View quote
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