Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 12/22

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





Let Go

If you have decided you want what we have
and are willing to go to any length to get it --
then you are ready to take certain steps.
At some of these we balked.
We thought we could find an easier, softer way.
But we could not.
With all the earnestness at our command,
we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start.
Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas
and the result was nil until we let go absolutely.
Remember we deal with alcohol -- cunning, baffling, powerful!
Without help it is too much for us.
But there is One who has all power -- that One is God.
May you find Him now!
c. 1976, 2001AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 58
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Thought to Consider . . .

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
H O P E = Heart Open; Please Enter

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

Safe
From "Good Housekeeping" article, 1954:

"When you stand outside a room where a group of Alcoholics Anonymous is meeting, the most frequent sound you hear is laughter. Mellow laughter, which can come only from people who have looked destruction and catastrophe in the face, not once but continuously over long years, and now are free and unafraid. The laughter, in short, of people who hold God's hand and feel safe."

c. Letter to a Woman Alcoholic (A.A. Pamphlet P-14)

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental
defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither
he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense
must come from a Higher Power."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 43~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




We can be grateful for every agency or method that tries to solve the problem of alcoholism--whether of medicine, religion, education, or research. We can be open-minded toward all such efforts and we can be sympathetic when the ill-advised ones fail. We can remember that A.A. itself ran for years on 'trial and error.'
As individuals, we can and should work with those that promise success - even a little success.

Every one of the pioneers in the total field of alcoholism will generously say that had it not been for the living proof of recovery in A.A., they could not have gone on. A.A. was the lodestar of hope and help that kept them at it.

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Member Submitted Quote



Expectations are premeditated resentments. ( Mandy R. )

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12 x 12 Quote

"How many of us have this degree of readiness? In an absolute sense
practically nobody has it. The best we can do, with all the honesty
that we can summon, is to try to have it. Even then the best of us will
discover to our dismay that there is always a sticking point, a point
at which we say, 'No, I can't give this up yet.' And we shall often
tread on even more dangerous ground when we cry, 'This I will never
give up!' Such is the power of our instincts to over-reach themselves.
No matter how far we have progressed, desires will always be found
which oppose the grace of God." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Six, pg. 65)