My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.
My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.
The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.
We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
I have always been comfortable that no one has been able to assess what I really have.
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.