Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 12/30

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




Slip

"I had commenced to drink
as though the cocktails were ginger ale.
I now remembered what my alcoholic friends had told me,
how they prophesied that if I had an alcoholic mind,
the time and place would come --
I would drink again. . .
I knew from that moment that I had an alcoholic mind.
I saw that will power and self-knowledge
would not help in those strange mental blank spots. . .
I had never been able to understand people
who said that a problem had them hopelessly defeated.
I knew then. It was a crushing blow."
c. 1976, 2001AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 41-2
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Thought to Consider . . .

I have learned it's the first drink that gets me drunk.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
S L I P = Sobriety Loses Its Priority

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


Action
From "Daily Resolutions:"

"A New Year: 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days,
8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes -- a time to consider
directions, goals, and actions. I must make some plans
to live a normal life, but also I must live emotionally
within a twenty-four-hour frame, for if I do, I don't
have to make New Year's resolutions! I can make
every day a New Year's day! I can decide, 'Today
I will do this....Today I will do that.' Each day I can
measure my life by trying to do a little better, by
deciding to follow God's will and by making an
effort to put the principles of our A.A. program into
action."

c. 1990, Daily Reflections, page 374

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the
brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal
men, but for alcoholics these things are poison."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 66~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




HAPPY NEW YEAR!


When we reached A.A., and for the first time in our lives stood among people who seemed to understand, the sense of belonging was tremendously exciting. We thought the isolation problem had been solved.
But we soon discovered that, while we weren't alone any more in a social sense, we still suffered many of the old pangs of anxious apartness. Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn't belong.
Step Five was the answer. It was the beginning of true kinship with man and God.

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Member Submitted Quote



Every time you admire the night sky, remember we are also made of star dust. ( SFG )

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12 x 12 Quote

"When that lifted, a wonderful thing had happened. The head promoter
wrote the Foundation office. He said he wished he'd paid some attention
to AA experience. Then he did something else that was to become an AA
classic. It all went on a little card about golf-score size. The cover
read: 'Middleton Group #1. Rule #62.' Once the card was unfolded, a
single pungent sentence leaped to the eye: 'Don't take yourself too
**** seriously.'" (Twelve and Twelve, Tradition Four, pg. 149)