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- Friday, July 1, 2011 Thought for the DayIn following the A.A. program with its twelve steps, we have the advantage of a better understanding of our problems. Day after day our sobriety results in the formation of new habits, normal habits. As each...
- Alcoholics are unable or unwilling, during their addiction to alcohol, to live in the present. The result is that they live in a constant state of remorse and fear because of their unholy past and its morbid attraction, or the uncertain future and...
- The Big Book is a map, or like a cook book, in that it gives clear instructions -- in this case, though, instructions on how to get from your sucky, blackout-ridden (or blackout-impending), downward spiral of an alcoholic life to something much...
- 22 Jun 2011Trusting Others But does trust require that we be blind to other peoples motives or, indeed, to our own? Not at all; this would be folly. Most certainly, we should assess the capacity for harm as well as the capability for good in...
- Surrender can happen in stages. At it's heart, surrender is about telling myself the truth. In my experience, real surrender is rarely marked by a dramatic gesture (as grand and cathartic in the moment as that can appear to be). It is more often a...
- AA slogans, like "Live and Let Live" or "This Too Shall Pass" or "Easy Does It" or "First Things First" or "Think Think Think" exist because they are simple embodiments of important things for a recovering alcoholic to remember, and their very...
- "If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember thatevery experience develops some latent force within you, youwill grow vigorous and happy, however adverse yourcircumstances may seem to be."-- John R. Miller
- My birfday / present !!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAfYCuOtgQg&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zmkzshUvE&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Nh84lfvW0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBnSWJHawQQ
- The small version of you is immersed in putting out fires , while the expanded version uses the flames to illuminate your path. Alan Cohen
- My dead sponsor was fond of observing that defiance is the chief characteristic of the alcoholic.I would bite my tongue from responding, "No it's not!" Sometimes the problem is not that I'm unwilling.Sometimes it's merely that I am instantly,...
- When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p 64It is very difficult for me to come to terms with my spiritual illness because of my great pride, disguised by my material successes and my...
- In order to attain peace of mind, I will need to let go of being defensive about my own weaknesses. This does not mean that I will "cast my pearls before swine" or open up to someone who is not able to be kind; only that I recognize that I am not...
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- We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long or happily in this world. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 73-74Honesty, like all virtues, is to be shared. It began after I shared . . . [my] whole lifes story with someone . . . in order...
- April 16Treat your friends as you do your pictures,and place them in their best light. Jennie Jerome ChurchillIt was probably a grace that Brenda passed away, I thought. My elderly neighbor was a severely addicted alcoholic, and, from what I saw,...