{"id":1612,"date":"2025-10-20T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:02:08","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-october-20th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1612","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days October 20th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-551741cdb4b4efe03723a18ea0225230\"><strong>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-f8ed101762af1b26fb2bc4018e0c7643\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays\">Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2dac2f624d541351ba7476253a36e836\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 open your mind<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-20c5abaf91276badd58f27c257aaa7e2\"><strong><br>Unselfishness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-00ba7c291c9f458b90be4677bc8afa43\"><strong><br>Truly unselfish people are often overlooked, but<br>they expect no praise. Take that wonderful example<br>\u2013 Jane Eyre the eponymous heroine of Charlotte<br>Bronte\u2019s great novel. Self-effacing but quietly<br>determined, she finds fulfilment in the end: I am no<br>bird; and no net ensnares me. I am a free human<br>being with an independent will. She proves the<br>saying that, if you are not afraid to show yourself as<br>you really are, then others will respond positively.<br>Her unselfish devotion to the damaged though<br>sincere Mr Rochester ends happily: Reader, I<br>married him! Do I believe that in giving, I will<br>receive?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-f62de551ee70615a1871226dc4bfef6e\"><strong>We live in a world that is designed to provide us with<br>what we want, provided we pay for it. We often rush<br>to gratify our desires without a thought for the true<br>cost \u2013 the work of others, the damage to the<br>environment, the effect on our health. Delaying<br>gratification is difficult, partly because it involves<br>using imagination to visualise a future benefit. But<br>delaying gratification also means we are not giving<br>our selfish desires top priority and that is progress                                                                                                           indeed. For that insight I am grateful,<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays Remember Mindfulness \u2013 open your mind Unselfishness Truly unselfish people are often overlooked, butthey expect no praise. Take that wonderful example\u2013 Jane Eyre the eponymous heroine of CharlotteBronte\u2019s great novel. 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