Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 9/24

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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~



Willingness

"My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea.
He said, 'Why don't you choose your own
conception of God?'
That statement hit me hard.
It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow
I had lived and shivered many years.
I stood in the sunlight at last.
It was only a matter of being willing to believe
in a Power greater than myself.
Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning."
c. 1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 12
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Thought to Consider . . .

The peaks and valleys of my life
have become gentle rolling hills.





*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
W H O = Willingness, Honesty, Openmindedness

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*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*



Like a Crowbar
From: "Listening to the Wind"
The Twelve Steps worked like a crowbar, prying into my dishonesty and fear. I didn't like the things I learned about myself, but I didn't want to go back where I had come from. I found out that there was no substance on the planet that could help me get honest. I would do just about anything to avoid working on myself.

2001, AAWS, Inc., Alcoholics Anonymous, pages 467-468

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we
be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be
given whatever we need to take care of such problems. We ask
especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no
request for ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if
others will be helped. We are careful never to pray for our own
selfish ends. Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it
doesn't work."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 87~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




'Just like you, I have often thought myself the victim of what other people say and do. Yet every time I confessed the sins of such people, especially those whose sins did not correspond exactly with my own, I found that I only increased the total damage. My own resentment, my self-pity would often render me well-nigh useless to anybody.
'So, nowadays, if anyone talks of me so as to hurt, I first ask myself if there is any truth at all in what they say. If there is none, I try to remember that I too have had my periods of speaking bitterly of others; that hurtful gossip is but a symptom of our remaining emotional illness; and consequently that I must never be angry at the unreasonableness of sick people.
'Under very trying conditions I have had, again and again, to forgive others - also myself. Have you recently tried this?

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Member Submitted Quote



Every time I drank over my problems, I'd come to and my problems had had puppies. ( Joanna W. )

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12 x 12 Quote


"But that is not all of the danger. Every time a person imposes his
instincts unreasonably upon others, unhappiness follows. If the pursuit
of wealth tramples upon people who happen to be in the way, then anger,
jealousy, and revenge are likely to be aroused. If sex runs riot, there
is a similar uproar. Demands made upon other people for too much
attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion
in the protectors themselves--two emotions quite as unhealthy as the
demands which evoke them." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Four, pg. 44)