Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 10/2

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




Amends
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"Somehow, being alone with God doesn't seem so embarrassing
as facing up to another person.
Until we actually sit down and talk aloud
about what we have so long hidden,
our willingness to clean house is still largely
theoretical.
When we are honest with another person,
it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves
and with God."
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 60
Copyright 1952 by A.A.W.S. Inc.

Thought to Consider . . .

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes
and to make amends for them.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
H O W = Honest, Open, and Willing

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


Hang Together Forever

From: "When AA Came of Age"

On Sunday morning the last day of the [1950 International] Convention I found those Twelve Traditions still on my mind. Each of them I saw is an exercise in humility that can guard us in everyday AA affairs and protect us from ourselves. If AA were really guided by the Twelve Traditions, we could not possibly be split apart by politics, religion, money, or by any old-timers who might take a notion to be big shots. With none of us throwing our weight around in public, nobody could possibly exploit AA for personal advantage, that is sure. For the first time I saw AAs anonymity for what it really is. It isn't just something to save us from alcoholic shame and stigma; its deeper purpose is actually to keep those fool egos of ours from running hog wild after money and public fame at AA's expense. It really means personal and group sacrifice for the benefit of all AA. Right then I resolved to learn our Twelve Traditions by heart, just as I had learned the Twelve Steps. If every AA did the same thing and really soaked up these principles we drunks could hang together forever.

1985, AAWS, Inc., Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, page 43

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely,
or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take,
you are probably alcoholic. If that be the case, you may be
suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experience will
conquer."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 44~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




I have had many experiences with atheists, mostly good. Everybody in A.A. has the right to his own opinion. It is much better to maintain an open and tolerant society than it is to suppress any small disturbances their opinions might occasion. Actually, 1 don't know of anybody who went off and died of alcoholism because of some atheist's opinions on the cosmos.
'But I do always entreat these folks to look to a 'Higher Power' - namely, their own group. When they come in, most of their A.A. group is sober, and they are drunk. Therefore, the group is a 'Higher Power.' That's a good enough start, and most of them do progress from there. I know how they feel, because I was once that way myself.

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Member Submitted Quote



While I'm in a meeting, my disease is out in the parking lot doing push-ups. ( Mike M. )

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12 x 12 Quote

"At Step Six, many of us balked--for the practical reason that we did
not wish to have all our defects of character removed, because we still
loved some of them too much. Yet we knew we had to make a settlement
with the fundamental principle of Step Six. So we decided that while we
still had some flaws of character that we could not yet relinquish, we
ought nevertheless to quit our stubborn, rebellious hanging on to them.
We said to ourselves, 'This I cannot do today, perhaps, but I can stop
crying out 'No, never!'" (Twelve and Twelve, Step Twelve, pg. 108)