Recovery Thoughts and Quotes 4/14

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AA Just For Today

Health

From "The Family Afterward":

"A body badly burned by alcohol does not often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling. We are convinced that a spiritual mode of living is a most powerful health restorative. We, who have recovered from serious drinking, are miracles of mental health. … Hardly one of our crowd now shows any mark of dissipation.

"But this does not mean that we disregard human health measures. God has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons."

© 2001 AAWS, Inc., pg. 133

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AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AAOnline.net)

April 14, 2008

Self-pity

Poor little old me. I had the 'ploms' and almost died from them. . .
Things grew worse. I fought tears,
and when I had successfully swallowed them,
anger and hostility toward everyone and everything welled up in their place. . .
despairing loneliness enveloped me. . .
What can I do about it? Well, I can weep and whine.
If that doesn't improve things, I can get drunk.
And if that doesn't work, I can kill myself.
Or I can accept the situation and live. Those are my only options.
Living appears to be the best; if things should happen to improve,
I will be around to benefit.
© 1985 The AA Grapevine, Inc., The Best Of The Grapevine [Vol. 1], pp.27-29


Thought to Ponder . . .

The only time I get depressed is when I'm thinking about myself.


AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

A A = Attitude Adjustment.

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AA 'Big Book' - Quote

Another principle we observe carefully is that we do not relate intimate experiences of another person unless we are sure he would approve. We find it better, when possible, to stick to our own stories. - Pg. 125 - The Family Afterward



"We alcoholics are sensitive people. It takes some of us a long time
to outgrow that serious handicap."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 125~



"So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They
arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of
self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 62~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote

Move Ahead

To spend too much time on any one alcoholic is to deny some other an opportunity to live and be happy. One of our Fellowship failed entirely with his first half-dozen prospects. He often says that if he had continued to work on them, he might have deprived many others, who have since recovered, of their chance.
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'Our chief responsibility to the newcomer is an adequate presentation of the program. If he does nothing or argues, we do nothing but maintain our own sobriety. If he starts to move ahead, even a little, with an open mind, we then break our necks to help in every way we can.'

1. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 96
2. LETTER, 1942

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12 x 12 Quote

"Therefore, thoroughness ought to be the watchword when taking
inventory. In this connection, it is wise to write out our questions
and answers. It will be an aid to clear thinking and honest appraisal.
It will be the first tangible evidence of our complete willingness to
move forward." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Four, pg. 54)

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Selfishness

"Selfishness - self-centeredness!
That, we think, is the root of our troubles.
Driven by a hundred forms of fear,
self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity,
we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
Sometimes they hurt us,
seemingly without provocation,
but we invariably find that at some time in the past
we have made decisions based on self
which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
So our troubles, we think,
are basically of our own making."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 62

Thought to Consider . . .

Spirituality is the ability
to get our minds off ourselves.

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