Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 4/1

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Prayer

"In AA we have found that the actual
good results of prayer are beyond question.
They are matters of knowledge and experience.
All those who have persisted have found
strength not ordinarily their own.
They have found wisdom beyond their
usual capability.
And they have increasingly found a peace of mind
which can stand firm in the face of
difficult circumstances."

Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 104
As Bill Sees It, p. 127

Thought to Consider . . .

Trying to pray is praying.

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PUSH
Pray Until Something Happens

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Depression
Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
"If temperamentally we are on the depressive side, we are apt to be swamped with guilt and self-loathing. We wallow in this messy bog, often getting a misshapen and painful pleasure out of it. As we morbidly pursue this melancholy activity, we may sink to such a point of despair that nothing but oblivion looks possible as a solution. Here, of course, we have lost all perspective, and therefore all genuine humility. For this is pride in reverse. This is not a moral inventory at all; it is the very process by which the depressive has so often been led to the bottle and extinction."

1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 45

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"In a few seconds he was overwhelmed by a conviction of the Presence
of God. It poured over and through him with the certainty and
majesty of a great tide at flood. The barriers he had built through
the years were swept away. He stood in the Presence of Infinite
Power and Love. He had stepped from bridge to shore. For the first
time, he lived in conscious companionship with his Creator."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 56~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




'Courage and Prudence'

When fear persisted, we knew it for what it was and we became able to handle it. We began to see each adversity as a God-given opportunity to develop the kind of courage which is born of humility, rather than of bravado.

Prudence is a workable middle ground, a channel of clear sailing between the obstacles of fear on the one side and of recklessness on the other. Prudence in practice creates a definite climate, the only climate in which harmony, effectiveness, and consistent spiritual progress can be achieved.

'Prudence is rational concern without worry.'

1. GRAPEVINE, JANUARY 1962 - 2. TWELVE CONCEPTS, P. 65 - 3.TALK, 1966

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Member Submitted Quote



I'm not much, but I'm all I think about.

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12 x 12 Quote

"The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide
and your full confidence in the one with whom you share your first
accurate self-survey. Even when you've found the person, it
frequently takes great resolution to approach him or her. No one
ought to say the AA program requires no willpower; here is one place
you may require all you've got. Happily, though, the chances are that
you will be in for a very pleasant surprise. When your mission is
carefully explained, and it is seen by the recipient of your
confidence how helpful he can really be, the conversation will start
easily and will soon become eager. Before long, your listener may
well tell a story or two about himself which will place you even more
at ease. Provided you hold back nothing, your sense of relief will
mount from minute to minute. The dammed-up emotions of years break
out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as soon as they are
exposed. As the pain subsides, a healing tranquillity takes its
place. And when humility and serenity are so combined, something else
of great moment is apt to occur. Many an AA, once agnostic or
atheistic, tells us that it was during this stage of Step Five that
he first actually felt the presence of God. And even those who had
faith already often become conscious of God as they never were
before." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Five, pg. 61)