Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 12/13

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




Anger

It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed,
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.
c. 1952AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 90
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Thought to Consider . . .

Anger is the hot wind that extinguishes the light of reason.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
A N G E R = Any No-Good Energy Rising

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


Traditions
From "The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous":
"Then in one of our larger centers the amazing story got around that the Foundation and the New York office and the book Alcoholics Anonymous were nothing but a huge racket. They had heard that the book Alcoholics Anonymous was making vast sums of money, that Dr. Bob and I [Bill W.] shared profits of $64,000 the year before.

"The investigating committee's accountant read our modest financial statement aloud and testified to its correctness. The committee was crestfallen and we received an apology.

"This was one of the test cases out of which A.A.'s Tradition respecting professionalism and paid workers was evolved. It was certain that I could not continue full time nor Bob devote more than half his working hours to A.A. unless we both had some definite source of steady income. That would be contrary to the then-forming Tradition of no contributions from the outside world."

2001 AAWS, Inc.; Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pgs. 193-94

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*


"If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to
let God take us to better things, we believe we will be forgiven and
will have learned our lesson. If we are not sorry, and our conduct
continues to harm others, we are quite sure to drink. We are not
theorizing. These are facts out of our experience."

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

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




'Not all large decisions can be well made by simply listing the pros and cons of a given situation, helpful and necessary as this process is. We cannot always depend on what seems to us to be logical. When there is doubt about our logic, we wait upon God and listen for the voice of intuition. If, in meditation, that voice is persistent enough, we may well gain sufficient confidence to act upon that, rather than upon logic. 'If, after an exercise of these two disciplines, we are still uncertain, then we should ask for further guidance and, when possible, defer important decisions for a time. By then, with more knowledge of our situation, logic and intuition may well agree upon a right course. 'But if the decision must be now, let us not evade it through fear. Right or wrong, we can always profit from the experience.'

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Member Submitted Quote



Whatever you do may be very insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

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12 x 12 Quote

"Then I woke up. I who had boasted my generosity that morning was
treating my own club worse than the distant alcoholics who had
forgotten to send the Foundation their dollars. I realized that my
five-dollar gift to the slippee was an ego-feeding proposition, bad
for him and bad for me. There was a place in AA where spirituality
and money would mix, and that was in the hat!" (Twelve and Twelve,
Tradition Seven, pg. 163)