Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 9/30

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



Consequences
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"In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately
to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified
by nervousness, anger, worry, depression,
jealousy or the like.
But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit
that our justification for a spree
was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened.
We now see that when we began to drink deliberately,
instead of casually,
there was little serious or effective thought
during the period of premeditation
of what the terrific consequences might be."
c.1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 37
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Thought to Consider . . .

Think it over, not drink over it.






*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
D E A D = Drinking Ends All Dreams

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



Traits in Common
Step Twelve: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.


But not so with alcoholics. When AA was quite young, a number of eminent psychologists and doctors made an exhaustive study of a good-sized group of so-called problem drinkers. The doctors weren't trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to find whatever personality traits, if any, this group of alcoholics had in common. They finally came up with a conclusion that shocked the AA members of that time. These distinguished men had the nerve to say that most of the alcoholics under investigation were still childish, emotionally sensitive, and grandiose.



How we alcoholics did resent that verdict! We would not believe that our adult dreams were often truly childish. And considering the rough deal life had given us, we felt it perfectly natural that we were sensitive. As to our grandiose behavior, we insisted that we had been possessed of nothing but a high and legitimate ambition to win the battle of life.



1981, AAWS, Inc., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pages 122-123

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we
could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced now that God can
remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him. If you have
already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps,
you have made a good beginning. That being so you have swallowed and
digested some big chunks of truth about yourself."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 70~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




Going it alone in spiritual matters is dangerous. How many times have we heard well-intentioned people claim the guidance of God when it was plain that they were mistaken? Lacking both practice and humility, they had deluded themselves and so were able to justify the most arrant nonsense on the ground that this was what God had told them.
People of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they have received from God. Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders. While the comment or advice of others may not be infallible, it is likely to be far more specific than any direct guidance we may receive while we are still inexperienced in establishing contact with a Power greater than ourselves.

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Member Submitted Quote



Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.

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12 x 12 Quote

"Before we ask what a spot-check inventory is, let's look at the kind
of setting in which such an inventory can do its work. It is a
spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the
cause, there is something wrong with us. If somebody hurts us and we
are sore, we are in the wrong also. But are there no exceptions to this
rule? What about 'justifiable' anger? If somebody cheats us, aren't we
entitled to be mad? Can't we be properly angry with self-righteous
folk? For us of AA these are dangerous exceptions. We have found that
justified anger ought to be left to those better qualified to handle
it." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Ten, pg. 90)