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- This from the September 1945 vol. 2 no. 4 grapevine. Reprinted from the Grapevine Digital Archives. __________________________________(Editor's Note: Here is an analysis of the kinds of people who come to A.A. as seen by one of A.A.'s best...
- Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. -Norman Vincent Peale On the threshold of recording her blockbuster album Unforgettable, Natalie Cole wrestled with her soul. The notion of electronically marrying segments of her dad's...
- So while it may be easy to simply write off the alcoholic or addict as someone who has simply made poor choices, lacks strength of character, and doesn't think things through rationally, when you look under the surface, there's always something...
- We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. -Marion Wright Edelman Down the road from my house lives...
- The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking. Consequently, with the exception of the occasional poor soul who has been "sentenced" to AA by the courts, people at AA meetings are those who come in the door knowing that they...
- Now that we are free from our constant craving, living life "one day at a time, we can begin to stop making unreasonable demands upon those we love. We can show kindness where we had shown none; we can take the initiative to be thoughtful,...
- You have no power except what is given you by my heavenly Father. -Jesus Christ, to Pontius Pilate I had a landlord in whose presence I felt intimidated. Whenever we interacted, I felt small, defensive, and apologetic. My roommate observed,...
- Inner resources are required. All the money, power and material possessions in the world can not buy any of them. These inner resources are yours to discover, to nourish and to learn. They are in each person. The inner resources to take on the...
- Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow." GoetheI ask myself sometimes, as we all do:"Who am I ?"" Where am I?"" Where am I going ?" What's it all about?"The learning and growing process-is usually slow. But eventually our seeking...
- On studying the Twelve steps, many of the first members of the program exclaimed What a Order! I can't go through with it"Do not be discouraged" we are told meeting after meeting." No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect...
- For a considerable period of time after I reached the Program, I let things I couldn't do keep me doing the things I could.If I was bothered by what a speaker or other person, I retreated, sulking, into my shell.Now, instead of being annoyed or...
- Tomorrows my favorite meeting the Buena Vista, we meet at the church on Sunnyside. I think what I like most about that meeting is that we just tell our own story, we dont try to fix other people; sometimes we give advice, but we try not to.I heard...
- I've always heard when God closes a door, He opens a window. Since I started working the Twelve steps, much of the fear and pain that haunted me all my life is gone.Some of defects have been lifted from m,e, though I am still wrestling with others,...
- "When a man has reached a condition-in which he believed that a thing must happen when he does not wish it, and that which he wishes to happen can never be, this is really the state of desperation."SchopenhauerThe very real pain of emotional...
- It is still not exactly a "piece of cake"for me to accept today's occasional pain and anxiety with any great degree of serenity, but I'm increasingly able to be thankful for a certain amount of pain. In the Program, we find the willingness to do...