Recovery Thoughts and Quotes 4/30

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AA Just For Today

Inspiration

From "Alcoholics Anonymous Number Three":

"I thought, I think I have the answer. Bill was very, very grateful that he had been released from this terrible thing and he had given God the credit for having done it, and he’s so grateful about it he wants to tell other people about it. That sentence, 'The Lord has been so wonderful to me, curing me of this terrible disease, that I just want to keep telling people about it,' has been a sort of a golden text for the A.A. program and for me."

© 2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 191

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AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AAOnline.net)

April 30, 2008

Miracle

Then the miracle happened -- to me!
It isn't always so sudden with everyone, but I ran into a personal crisis
that filled me with a raging and righteous anger.
And as I fumed helplessly and planned to get good and drunk and show them,
my eye caught a sentence in the book lying open on my bed,
"We cannot live with anger."
The walls crumpled -- and the light streamed in. I wasn't trapped.
I wasn't helpless. I was free, and I didn't have to drink to "show them."
This wasn't "religion" -- this was freedom!
Freedom from anger and fear, freedom to know happiness
and freedom to know love.
© 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 46
With permission, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder . . .

Don't give up before the miracle happens.


AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

O D A A T = One Day At A Time.

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AA 'Big Book' - Quote

We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink, as he may do for months or years, he reacts much like other men. We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop. The experience of any alcoholic will abundantly confirm this. - Pgs. 22-23 - There Is A Solution



"We, who have recovered from serious drinking, are miracles of mental
health."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 133~



"In dealing with resentments, we set them on paper. We listed
people, institutions or principles with whom we were angry. We asked
ourselves why we were angry. In most cases it was found that our
self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal
relationships,(including sex) were hurt or threatened."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 64~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote

We Are Not Fighting

We have ceased fighting anything or anyone--even alcohol. For by this time sanity has returned. We can now react sanely and normally, and we find that this has happened almost automatically. We see that this new attitude toward liquor is really a gift of God.
That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid.
That is how we react--so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, PP. 84-85

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Member Submitted Quote

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. ( Talmudic Saying )

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12 x 12 Quote

"Still more wonderful is the feeling that we do not have to be
specially distinguished among our fellows in order to be useful and
profoundly happy. Not many of us can be leaders of prominence, nor do
we wish to be. Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met,
troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that
at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort,
the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are
important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full
return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone in
self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square
pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things--
these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living
for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material
possessions, could possibly be substitutes. True ambition is not what
we thought it was. True ambition is the deep desire to live usefully
and walk humbly under the grace of God." (Twelve and Twelve, Step
Twelve, pg. 124)

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Compromise

"One qualification for a useful life is
'give-and-take,'
the ability to compromise cheerfully.
Compromise comes hard to us 'all-or-nothing' drunks.
Nevertheless we must never lose sight of the fact
that progress is nearly always characterized by
a series of improving compromises.
There are circumstances in which it is necessary
to stick flat-footed to one's convictions.
Deciding when to compromise
and when not to compromise always calls for
the most careful discrimination."

Bill W., Twelve Concepts for World Service, pp. 39-40
As Bill Sees It, p. 59

Thought to Consider . . .

Wisdom in its purest form is sometimes
knowing what to overlook.

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