Recovery Thoughts and Quotes 4/25

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AA Just For Today

Choices

From "'Use Me'":

"The voice that answered was calm and sweet beyond description. 'You have the strength. All you have to do is use it. I am here. I am with you. Use Me.'

"I was born again that day. From that moment, the compulsion was lifted. In the eleven years since, I have found in sobriety what I was searching for in the bottle. I wanted peace; God gave me peace. I wanted acceptance; God accepted me. I wanted to be loved; God assured me that He loved me."

© 1973 AAWS, Inc.; Came to Believe, 30th printing 2004, pg. 33

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AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AAOnline.net)

April 25, 2008

Worry

None of us has to understand God or worry about things beyond our control.
We can indulge ourselves in the luxury of not-worrying.
Any of us can handle just one day;
all each of us has to try at is our own job, our own family life.
We don't have to try fixing up the whole world or understanding
what no theologian of any faith has ever understood.
We simply stop messing in God's business. . .
when we stop messing and stop worrying,
we have turned our will and our lives over to God (or Good)
as we understand (or don't understand) Him.
© 1973 AAWS, Came To Believe. . ., p. 116
With permission, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder . . .

Remove the worry from your mind
Remove the anger from your heart
Give a lot
Expect little
Keep it simple.


AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

W O R R Y = Wrong Or Right Remain Yourself.

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AA 'Big Book' - Quote

I woke up. This had to be stopped. I saw I could not take so much as one drink. I was through forever. Before then, I had written lots of sweet promises, but my wife happily observed that this time I meant business. And so I did.
Shortly afterward I came home drunk. There had been no fight. Where had been my high resolve? I simply didn't know. It hadn't even come to mind. Someone had pushed a drink my way, and I had taken it. Was I crazy? I began to wonder, for such an appalling lack of perspective seemed near being just that. - Pg. 5 - Bill's Story



"Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one
else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail.
Remember they are very ill."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 89~



"'There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which
is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in
everlasting ignorance that principle is contempt prior to
investigation.'"
~Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 568~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote

Each Man's Vision

'Beyond a Higher Power, as each of us may vision Him, A.A. must never, as a society, enter the field of dogma or theology. We can never become a religion in that sense, lest we kill usefulness by getting bogged down in theological contention.'
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'The really amazing fact about A.A. is that all religions see in our program a resemblance to themselves. For example, Catholic theologians declare our Twelve Steps to be in exact accord with their Ignatian Exercises for Retreat, and though our book reeks of sin, sickness, and death, the Christian Science Monitor has often praised it editorially.
'Now, looking through Quaker eyes, you, too, see us favorably. What happy circumstances, these.'

1. LETTER, 1954
2. LETTER, 1950

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12 x 12 Quote

"Practically every boy in the United States dreams of becoming our
President. He wants to be his country's number one man. As he gets
older and sees the impossibility of this, he can smile good-naturedly
at his childhood dream. In later life he finds that real happiness is
not to be found in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-
rater in the heartbreaking struggle for money, romance, or self-
importance. He learns that he can be content as long as he plays well
whatever cards life deals him. He's still ambitious, but not absurdly
so, because he can now see and accept actual reality. He's willing to
stay right size." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Twelve, pg. 122)

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Self-restraint

"Nothing pays off like restraint of tongue and pen.
We must avoid quick-tempered criticism
and furious power-driven argument.
The same goes for silent scorn.
These are emotional booby traps
baited with pride and vengefulness.
We can neither think nor act to good purpose
until the habit of self-restraint
has become automatic."
Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 91

Thought to Consider . . .

The Seven T's - Take Time To Think The Thing Through.

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