Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 10/9

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




Emotional Sobriety

"If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small,
we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency
and its consequent unhealthy demand.
Let us, with God's help,
continually surrender these hobbling liabilities.
Then we can be set free to live and love;
we may then be able to twelfth-step ourselves,
as well as others, into emotional sobriety."
Bill. W., AAGrapevine, January 1958
c.1967AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 288
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Thought to Consider . . .

Sobriety is a choice and a treasure.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
A A = Altered Attitudes

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



No Matter What
From: "Using the 24-hour plan"

Although we realize that alcoholism is a permanent, irreversible condition, our experience has taught us to make no long-term promises about staying sober. We have found it more realistic - and more successful - to say, "I am not taking a drink just for today."



Even if we drank yesterday, we can plan not to drink today. We may drink tomorrow – who knows whether we’ll even be alive then? – but for this 24 hours, we decide not to drink. No matter what the temptation or provocation, we determine to go to any extremes necessary to avoid a drink today.



1998, AAWS, Inc., Living Sober, page 6

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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




I had gone steadily downhill, and on that day in 1934 I lay upstairs in the hospital, knowing for the first time that I was utterly hopeless.
Lois was downstairs, and Dr. Silkworth was trying in his gentle way to tell her what was wrong with me and that I was hopeless. 'But Bill has a tremendous amount of will power,' she said. 'He has tried desperately to get well. We have tried everything. Doctor, why can't he stop?'
He explained that my drinking, once a habit, had become an obsession, a true insanity that condemned me to drink against my will.

'In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension - freedom under God as we understand Him.

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Member Submitted Quote



Self will imprisoned me far more than bars ever did.

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12 x 12 Quote

"The same stern threat applies to the group itself. Unless there is
approximate conformity to AA's Twelve Traditions, the group, too, can
deteriorate and die. So we of AA do obey spiritual principles, first
because we must, and ultimately because we love the kind of life such
obedience brings. Great suffering and great love are AA's
disciplinarians; we need no others." (Twelve and Twelve, Tradition
Nine, pg. 174)