Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 9/28

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




Meetings
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"Sobriety and a plan for living that produces
a personality change and a spiritual awakening
are imperative.
Through AA, many receive the needed change and awakening
just by trying to live by AA principles
and associating with AA people.
We do this by going to many AA meetings with an open mind
and a desire to live the good-feeling life without chemicals --
liquid or otherwise."
c. 1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 459
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Thought to Consider . . .

The ankle-biters of everyday struggles will eat away at me
unless I go to meetings and share.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
H O P E = Hearing Other Peoples' Experience

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

All-Encompassing
From "The Whole Company of ...."

"I was born an Anglican (Church of England), and the following crops up in one of our services (perhaps in the services of other denominations also): 'Therefore with angels and archangels and the whole company of heaven, we laud and glorify Thy name.' Since I have no knowledge of heaven or the company kept there, whenever I repeat this passage of praise, I substitute the word 'and the whole company of Alcoholics Anonymous.'

"Being an A.A. Loner, I have felt very out of things and on my own. But I do believe in the power of collective thought, whether for good or evil. Thus, I believe that the collective thought of the body of Alcoholics Anonymous throughout the world must have some effect on alcoholics, whether they are aware of it or not. - Kenton-on-Sea, South Africa"

1973 AAWS, Inc.; Came to Believe, 30th printing 2004, pg. 87

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from
it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will
find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new
attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or
effort on our part. It just comes!"

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 84~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




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. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us!

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Member Submitted Quote



If you're faced in the right direction, and you still fall on your face, you've still made progress. ( James K. )

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12 x 12 Quote


"Some of us, though, tripped over a very different snag. We clung to
the claim that when drinking we never hurt anybody but ourselves. Our
families didn't suffer, because we always paid the bills and seldom
drank at home. Our business associates didn't suffer, because we were
usually on the job. Our reputations hadn't suffered, because we were
certain few knew of our drinking. Those who did would sometimes assure
us that, after all, a lively bender was only a good man's fault. What
real harm, therefore, had we done? No more, surely, than we could
easily mend with a few casual apologies." (Twelve and Twelve, Step
Eight, pg. 79)