Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 1-1-09

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!


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




Promises

We are going to know a new freedom
and a new happiness.
We will not regret the past
nor wish to shut the door on it.
We will comprehend the word serenity
and we will know peace.
No matter how far down the scale we have gone,
we will see how our experience can benefit others.
That feeling of uselessness and self-pity
will disappear.
Self-seeking will slip away.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity
will leave us.
We will intuitively know how to handle
situations which used to baffle us.
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us
what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises?
We think not.
They are being fulfilled among us --
sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
They will always materialize if we work for them.
c. 1976, 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 83-4
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Thought to Consider . . .

It works -- it really does.


*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
G R A C E = Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations.

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


Seed
Step One: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable.
"It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again. Following every spree, he would say to himself, 'Maybe those A.A.'s were right. . . .' After a few such experiences, often years before the onset of extreme difficulties, he would return to us convinced. He had hit bottom as truly as any of us. John Barleycorn himself had become our best advocate."

1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pgs. 23-24

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"We have three little mottoes which are apropos.
Here they are:

First Things First
Live and Let Live
Easy Does It."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 135~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in alcoholism. This is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without undergoing a profound personality change.

We thought conditions drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these conditions and found that we couldn't do so to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics. It never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet conditions, whatever they were.

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Member Submitted Quote



I drank with my inferiors until I didn't have any. - Joseph A.

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12 x 12 Quote

"At first glance, it did look like a good thing. Then doubt crept in.
The association wanted to use our member's full name in all its
advertising; he was to be described both as its director of publicity
and as a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Of course, there couldn't be
the slightest objection if such an association hired an AA member
solely because of his public relations ability and his knowledge of
alcoholism. But that wasn't the whole story, for in this case not only
was an AA member to break his anonymity at a public level, he was to
link the name Alcoholics Anonymous to this particular educational
project in the minds of millions. It would be bound to appear that AA
was now backing education...liquor trade association style." (Twelve
and Twelve, Tradition Six, pg. 158)