Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 10/5

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


Virtues

"We of AA are apt to brag of the virtues of our fellowship.
Let us remember that none of these are earned virtues.
We have been forced into them, to begin with,
by the cruel lash of John Barleycorn.
We have adopted these attitudes, these practices,
this structure, not at first because we wished to
but because we had to.
And then, as time confirmed the seeming rightness
of our basic principles,
we began to conform because it was right to do so."
Bill W.,
c.1957AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 224
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Thought to Consider . . .

Life didn't end when I got sober -- it started


*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
P R O G R A M = People Relying On God Relay A Message

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Choices
From "The Seed of God":
"But my spiritual growth became stronger from the experiences of others. It was explained to me that I could freely choose a God of my understanding. At first, I thought I was committing a sin by trying to change God, but I soon realized that God was constant, and the only changes that had to be made were in my sick mind."

1973 AAWS, Inc.; Came to Believe, 30th printing 2004, pgs. 59-60

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"Most alcoholics owe money. We do not dodge our creditors. Telling
them what we are trying to do, we make no bones about our drinking;
they usually know it anyway, whether we think so or not. Nor are we
afraid of disclosing our alcoholism on the theory it may cause
financial harm. Approached in this way, the most ruthless creditor
will sometimes surprise us. Arranging the best deal we can we let
these people know we are sorry. Our drinking has made us slow to
pay.
We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we have to go,
for we are liable to drink if we are afraid to face them."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 78~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




The majority of A.A. members have suffered severely from self-justification during their drinking days. For most of us, self-justification was the maker of excuses for drinking and for all kinds of crazy and damaging conduct. We had made the invention of alibis a fine art.
We had to drink because times were hard or times were good. We had to drink because at home we were smothered with love or got none at all. We had to drink because at work we were great successes or dismal failures. We had to drink because our nation had won a war or lost a peace. And so it went, ad infinitum.

To see how our own erratic emotions victimized us often took a long time. Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word 'blame' from our speech and thought.

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Member Submitted Quote



The Truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. ( Cam M. )

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12 x 12 Quote


"Why did AA finally drop all its membership regulations? Why did we
leave it to each newcomer to decide himself whether he was an alcoholic
and whether he should join us? Why did we dare to say, contrary to the
experience of society and government everywhere, that we would neither
punish nor deprive any AA of membership, that we must never compel
anyone to pay anything, believe anything, or conform to anything?"
(Twelve and Twelve, Tradition Three, pg. 141)