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Aphorisms & Memes
(2021 Archives)
by
Lucki Melander Wilder
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" #PleaseStealThese "  -- Lucki
Some really nice ones there. THANK YOU for keeping me on the mailing list. -- Kim Bowden-Kerby

This year's quotes alternate between the rooms of recovery and the words of various people quoted in Twigs of a Family Tree [What?] and The Three Onenesses [What?]. Plus the usual baker's dozen for Baha'i events, focusing on Baha'u'llah's Words of Wisdom and with a nod to the 12 Steps. Feel free to copy/paste any images anywhere. Your social media, emails, a card, poster, T-shirt, whatever. But just for your personal use, not $-making. Please don't crop credit lines. Do use hashtags. Feel free to email me to request a high-reolution copy of any image(s) on this page. And enjoy!

Start with JANUARY 1     Go to 2021 list/links     Go to 2021 hashtags/links Switch to Abiding Blog     Switch to Adding Insult

Welcome to the Home of the 2021 Aphorisms-Memes Family. Beyond this welcome mat are links-lists by date & by hashtag, followed by 66 Aphorisms & Memes featured in 2021. Enjoy them, & use/hashtag them in your own social media.
Entries for 2021
01-01 God Digs
01-08 Our Nature
01-15 With Us
01-22 Our Potential
01-29 A Miracle Is
02-05 Or Humility
02-12 We Come
02-19 Not Hung Up
02-25 To Testify
02-26 Seed's Faith
03-01 To Trust
03-05 For Less		 continued
03-12 Our Choices
03-19 His Eternity
03-20 To Accept
03-26 Someone
04-02 Or Dignity
04-09 Come Up Short
04-16 Or Love
04-20 To Look
04-23 The Winner
04-28 To Witness
04-30 Own The Issue
05-01 To Observe		 continued
05-07 Vaccine
05-14 God Shows Up
05-21 What Decides
05-23 To Abide
05-28 To Hold
05-28 Or Sharing
06-04 Worth All
06-11 Beefs It Up
06-18 I & We
06-25 Revelation
07-02 Changing
07-09 To Recount		 continued
07-09 User Results
07-16 God & Me
07-23 Or Supportive
07-30 Without Dark
08-06 See & Plan
08-13 Re-Move
08-20 Not Static
08-27 Grow Most
09-03 Practical
09-10 Nine Eleven
09-17 Unexpected
09-24 The Vortex		 continued
10-01 Will Or Can
10-08 Seek & Find
10-15 Or Tenacity
10-22 Free Will
10-29 Flexible
11-05 Zero Times
11-06 To Know
11-07 To Turn
11-12 Perfect Love
11-19 It Isn't
11-25 To Act
11-26 God Adapts		 continued
11-27 To Love
12-03 All That Is
12-10 Unknowable
12-17 Like A Muscle
12-24 Down & Up
12-31 Green Means
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Blue = In the Rooms
Gold = Upcoming
Red = Step/Baha'i Event
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xHashtags for 2021   #Bahai 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13  #Acceptance   #Action   #Add   #Alcohol   #Beneficiary   #Bringing   #ChangeMe   #Choosing   #Condition   #Contentment   #Courage   #Creation   #Darkness   #Decision   #Deeds   #Detachment   #Difference   #Diversity   #DontKnow   #Evolving 2   #Experience   #Faith 2 3 4    #Finding   #FreeWill 2 3 4   #FullPotential   #Getting   #Gift   #God 2 3 4 5 6 7 8   #GodDoes   #GodsLaw   #GodsPlan 2 3 4   #Growth   #Hope   #Human   #Humanity   #HumanNature   #HungUp   #Information   #Journey   #Justice   #Knowing   #Knowledge   #Life 2   #LiftUp   #Light   #Love 2 3 4   #Miracle   #Mirrors   #MustardSeed   #Natural   #NewWorld   #NineEleven   #NothingChanges   #OldWorld   #Omniscience 2   #Oppressor   #PeoplesLives   #Program   #Progress   #Providence   #PutDown   #Reliance   #Religion   #Remember    #Safety   #Seeking   #Shortcomings   #Sickness   #Sponsorship   #Struggle   #Subtract   #Supernatural   #Thanksviging   #TheGreatest   #Therapy   #Together   #Understanding 2   #Update   #Vice 2 3 4 5 6 7 8   #Virtue 2 3 4 5 6 7 8   #Wealth    #Wellness   #Winners          #AlanProsser 2 3 4  

2021-12-31 Green Means
#Life   #Experience
Green means alive. Green also means not yet experienced...To say "I'm growing" is simply to say "God isn't finished creating me yet." #Life #Experience #Recovery		 2021-12-24 Down & Up
#PutDown   #LiftUp
Just as He* is there to show how far down we are, or at least where we're headed, He is also there to lift us right back up again. (*Baha'u'llah and, indeed, each of God's Messengers) #PutDown #LiftUp #MeadSimon		 2021-12-17 Like A Muscle   #Therapy   #Progress
Recovery for an alcoholic is like therapy for a muscle injury: you have to lengthen it, then you have to strengthen it. #Therapy #Progress #Recovery
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2021-12-10 Unknowable
#God   #Understanding
God is for us an unknowable Essence. We can no more understand our Creator than a paintain can understand the artist who painted it. #God #Understanding #TheThreeOnenesses		 x

2021-12-03 All That Is
#God   #Life
God is my life, because my life is all that I am and God is all that is. #God #Life #Recovery		 x
For Ascension (passing) of 'Abdu'l-Baha &
the 12 Steps   2021-11-27 To Love
#Bahai   #Wealth
The essence of wealth is love for Me; whoso loveth Me is the possessor of all things, and he that loveth Me not is indeed of the poor and needy. #Bahai #Wealth #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom
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2021-11-26 God Adapts
#FreeWill   #GodsPlan
When we use free will to diverge from it and create chaos or evil, when the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, when we're affected by a natural catastrophe, whenever necessary, God adapts His plan. #FreeWill #GodsPlan #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
For Day of the Covenant & Step 12
2021-11-25 To Act
#Baha'i   #Deeds
The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds; he whose words exceed his deeds, know verily his death is better than his life. #Bahai #Deeds #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom		 x

2021-11-19 It Isn't
#Program   #Faith
...the program isn't a race. Faith isn't a competition. Recovery isn't a contest. It's not about who can recover faster, sooner, better. (For your free copy of a 50th-Anniversary 12-Step lead on what a mustard seed has faith in, email Lucki1844@gmail.com) #Program #Faith #Recovery
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2021-11-12 Perfect Love  
#God   #Love
...God is love. Whether constant or evolving, His love is perfect. Just as His creation is perfect, even though it's evolving. And That's the kiind of love we should aspire to. Even knowing we can never get that good at it. #God #Love #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
For Birth of Baha'u'llah & Step 11
2021-11-07 To Turn
#Bahai   #Love
The essence of love is for man to turn his heart to the Beloved One, and sever himself from all else but Him, and desire naught save that which is the desire of his Lord. #Bahai #Love #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom		 x
For Birth of the Bab & Step 10
2021-11-06 To Know
#Bahai   #Knowledge
True loss is for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his self. #Bahai #Knowledge #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom

2021-11-05 Zero Times
#Information   #Action
Zero times anything equals zero. Infinite action x Zero information = Zero growth. Infinite information x Zero action = Zero transformation. #Information #Action #Recovery		 x
2021-10-29 Flexible
#GodsPlan   #Providence
It's funny about God's plans. How She keeps them alive and flexible. How She too finds some providence in the worst of calamities. The calamities are not Her doing. The providence that comes from them is. #GodsPlan #Providence #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
2021-10-22 Free Will
#FreeWill   #Humanity
If there were no free will, there would be no humanity, no one capable of forming a consensual relationship with our Creator. We'd be robots. (quoted by Alan Prosser as "the best post all week") #FreeWill #Humanity #TwigsOfAFamilyTree
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2021-10-15 Or Tenacity
#Vice   #Virtue
Unrelenting stubbornness is a vice. Properly moderated, it becomes the virtue of perseverance. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
2021-10-08 Seek & Find
#Seeking   #Finding
If we're seeking a virtue, when we start using it, we start finding it. #Seeking #Finding #Recovery		 x
2021-10-01 Will Or Can
#Omniscience   #God
We say God is omniscient. But how is that really defined? To know all that WILL happen? Or to know all that CAN happen? #Omniscience #God #TwigsOfAFamilyTree
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2021-09-24 The Vortex
#Alcohol   #PeoplesLives
I roared through people's lives like a tornado. When you throw alcohol into the vortex, it becaomes the vortex. #Alcohol #PeoplesLives #Recovery		 x
2021-09-17 Unexpected
#Faith   #Miracle
...something outside the purview of science...if it really makes an unexpected change for the better in a person who has or finds faith, how does that not qualify as a miracle of its own? #Faith #Miracle #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
2021-09-10 Nine Eleven
#NineEleven   #Remember
Today is...the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The memorial park at Ground Zero has been opened. The bedrock museum has been roofed. The two tridents have been upraised. The survivor tree has come home. The footprint waterfalls are running. The mourners have gathered, the silences have been observed, the Presidents have spoken, the bells have been rung, the songs sung, the names read, the tears shed, the flags arrayed, the flowers laid, the rubbings made, and "Taps" played. Abiding Blog: Recount 2011-09-11 #NineEleven #Remember #AbidingBlog
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2021-09-03 Practical
#Supernatural   #Natural
God doesn't always use mystical means, sometimes He provides practical answers. #Supernatural #Natural #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
2021-08-27 Grow Most
#Growth   #Struggle
We grow most by what we must fight against hardest. #Growth #Struggle #Recovery		 x
2021-08-20 Not Static
#GodsPlan   #Evolving
Whatever God's plan is, it is not static. It's not like He set the wheels in motion back when, and how He just watches it roll out. #GodsPlan #Evolving #TwigsOfAFamilyTree
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2021-08-13 Re-Move
#Subtract   #Add
"Remove" doesn't necessarily mean "take away" ... to remove a shortcoming, maybe I have to add something ... or patiently let something grow. #Subtract #Add #Recovery		 x
2021-08-06 See & Plan
#Omniscience   #God
If God's omniscience allows Him to see all the possible consequences, and thus to plan for every contingency, then no matter what we choose or what happens around and to and in us, He can change His plan as needed. And forge ahead. #Omniscience #God #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
2021-07-30 Without Dark
#Darkness   #Light
...God's greatest gift to us is Free Will. Without it there is no progress, no salvation, no virtue, no happiness. Without darkness, light is meaningless. #Darkness #Light #AlanProsser
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2021-07-23 Or Supportive
#Vice   #Virtue
Rage over insult to oneself can destroy. Anger at injustice to others can empower. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
2021-07-16 Me & God
#Difference   #God
The difference between God and me is: God doesn't think She's me. #Difference #God #Recovery		 x
2021-07-09 User Results
#Vice   #Virtue
...when you think about it, virtues and vices actually are the same thing. It's how you use them and what the results are that makes the difference. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree
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For Martyrdom of the Bab & Step 9
2021-07-09 To Recount
#Bahai   #Thanksgiving
The essence of charity is for the servant to recount the blessings of his Lord, and to render thanks unto Him at all times and under all conditions. #Bahai #Thansgiving #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom		 x

2021-07-02 Changing
#NothingChanges   #ChangeMe
Changing programs or changing meetings or changing sponsors doesn't help if I am not changing. #NothingChanges #ChangeMe #Recovery		 x

2021-06-25 Revelation
#Religion   #Evolving
All the world religions...are part of God's ongoing and progressive Revelation to an evolving humanity, like chapters in a book, grades in a school, or lamps along a path. #Religion #Evolving #TheThreeOnenesses
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2021-06-18 I & We
#Sickness   #Wellness
The I is the illness. The WE is the wellness. #Illness #Wellness #Recovery		 x
2021-06-11 Beefs It Up
#GodsPlan   #Update
...when someone goes against God's plan, He updates the plan. Beefs it up. #GodsPlan #Update #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
2021-06-04 Worth All 
#FreeWill   #Gift
God gave us free will, a gift so great, so unfathomably great, that it's worth all the consequences no matter how bitter some of htem are. #FreeWill #Gift #AlanProsser
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2021-05-28 Or Sharing
#Vice  #Virtue
Sharing one's knowledge and perceptions with others is virtuous. Insisting that one's own ideas and plans are always right, and best for others, is rank arrogance. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
For Ascension (passing) of Baha'u'llah & Step 8
2021-05-28 To Hold
#Bahai   #Reliance
True reliance is for the servant to pursue his profession and calling in this world, to hold fast unto the Lord, to seek naught but His grace, inasmuch as in His Hands is the destiny of all His servants. #Bahai #Reliance #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom		 x
For Declaration of the Bab & Step 7
2021-05-23 To Abide
#Bahai   #Courage
The source of courage and power is the promotion of the Word of God, and steadfastness in His Love. #Bahai #Courage #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom
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2021-05-21 What Decides
#Condition   #Decision
My future isn't decided by my conditions; it's decided by my DECISIONS. #Condition #Decision #Recovery		 x
2021-05-14 God Shows Up
#OldWorld   #NewWorld
The tired and tainted old age, old era, old world is dying. And a better and brighter new one is being born...In other words, God always shows up. #OldWorld #NewWorld #TwigsOfAFamilyTree
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#Vice   #Virtue
Humility is the vaccine against humiliation. #Vice #Virtue #Recovery
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For Twelfth of Ridvan & Step 6
2021-05-01 To Observe
#Bahai   #Safety
The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world. #Bahai #Safety #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom		 x

2021-04-30 Own The Issue
#Oppressor   #Beneficiary
Yes, the oppressed and powerless must raise their voices and stand up for their rights. But then it's the oppressors and empowered -- and especially all the silent beneficiaries in the wider community -- who must own the issue. Own the situation the oppressors triggered. #Oppressor #Beneficiary #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
For Ninth of Ridvan & Step 5
2021-04-28 To Witness
#Bahai   #Detachment
The essence of detachment is for man to turn his face towards the courts of the Lord, to enter His Presence, behold His Countenance, and stand as witness before Him. #Bahai #Detachment #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom
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2021-04-23 The Winner
#Winners   #TheGreatest
Hang with the winners. And remember that the greatest winner is God. #Winners #TheGreatest #Recovery		 x
For First of Ridvan & Step 4
2021-04-20 To Look
#Bahai   #Justice
The essence of all that We have revealed for thee is Justice, is for man to free himself from idle fancy and imitation, discern with the eye of oneness His glorious handiwork, and look into all things with a searching eye. #Bahai #Justice #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom		 x

2021-04-16 Or Love
#Vice   #Virtue
Love is a virtue. Improperly expressed, it becomes lust or obsession. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree
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2021-04-09 Come Up Short
#Shortcomings   #Human
SHORTCOMINGS: What I am when I come up short is not bad or a failure or the piece of crud the universe revolves around, but a human being being human. #Shortcomings #Human #Recovery		 x
2021-04-02 Or Dignity
#Vice   #Virtue
Pride in the sense of self-esteem, of knowing what one is good at, is a virtue. Overweening pride becaomes the vice of vanity. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
2021-03-26 Someone
#Sponsorship   #Mirrors
In seeking a sopnsor, don't look for someone like you; look of someone you want to be like. #Sponsorship #Mirrors #Recovery
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For Naw-Ruz (New Year) & Step 3
2021-03-20 To Accept
#Bahai   #Acceptance
The source of all glory is acceptance of whatsoever the Lord hath bestowed and contentment with that which God hath ordained. #Bahai #Acceptance #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom		 x

2021-03-19 His Eternity
#Creation   #Love
Maybe God created us because of His perfect love. Maybe God created the universe in order to devote His eternity to learning how to love us. #Creation #Love #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x

2021-03-12 Our Choices
#Knowing   #Choosing
Just because the All Knowing, the Omniscient, knows what choices we make does not mean they are not our choices. #Knowing #Choosing #AlanProsser
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2021-03-05 For Less
#Faith   #Hope   #Love
If we don't strive to care more, we'll care less 'til we become careless of others and outselves. If we can't learn to love more, we'll love less 'til we're loveless. If we neglect to deepen in our faith, we'll have less faith 'til we become faithless. If we don't bother to hope for more, especially for others, we'll hope for less 'til we're hopeless. #Faith #Hope #Love #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
For 19-Day (daylight) Fast & Step 2
2021-03-01 To Trust
#Bahai   #Contentment
The source of all good is trust in God, submission unto His command, and contentment with His holy will and pleasure. #Baha'i #Contentment #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom		 x

2021-02-26 Seed's Faith
#Faith   #MustardSeed
Top 10 Things a Mustard Seed Has Faith In: 1. Freedom 2. Letting Go 3. Being Grounded 4. Sense of Direction 5. Growth 6. Results 7. Gifts To Come 8. Having a Purpose 9. Cycle of Life 10. Love For your free copy of a 50th-Anniversary 12-Step lead on what a mustard seed has faith in, email Info@EarthstarWorks.com #Faith #MustardSeed #Recovery
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For Ayyam-i-Ha & Step 1
2021-02-25 To Testify
#Bahai   #Understanding
The essence of understanding is to testify to one's poverty and submit to the Will of hte Lord, the Sovereign, the Gracious, the All-Powerful. #Bahai #Understanding #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom		 x

2021-02-19 Not Hung Up
#God   #HungUp
God doesn't get hung up on coulda-woulda-shoulda-mighta-beens. #God #HungUp #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x

2021-02-12 We Come
#Getting   #Bringing
What we come for, we come with. #Getting #Bringing #Recovery
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2021-02-05 Or Humility
#Vice   #Virtue
Self-abasement is a vice. Balanced with one's sense of self-worth, it becomes the virtue of humility. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree		 x
2021-01-29 A Miracle Is
#GodDoes   #DontKnow
A miracle is when God does something for us that we don't understand how God did it. #GodDoes #DontKnow #Recovery		 x
2021-01-22 Our Potential
#GodsLaw   #FullPotential
...God does not send us laws "for the fun of it". The purpose of these laws, both spiritual and physical, both immutable and shanging, is to help individuals and the whole human race attain our FULLEST potential. #GodsLaw #FullPotential #TheThreeOnenesses
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2021-01-15 With Us
#Journey   #Together
It's so cool that on this journey, people walk with us, people stay with us. #Journey #Together #Recovery		 x
2021-01-08 Our Nature
#HumanNature   #FreeWill
God created us with the NATURE to have free will. #HumanNature #FreeWill #AlanProsser		 x
2021-01-01 God Digs
#God   #Diversity
God really digs diversity. #God #Diversity #Recovery


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