Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 4/4

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

"When the thought was expressed to me
that there might be a God personal to me,
I didn't like the idea.
So my friend Ebby made what then seemed
a novel suggestion.
He said, 'Why don't you choose
your own conception of God?'
That statement hit me hard.
It melted the icy intellectual mountain
in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years.
I stood in the sunlight at last."
Bill W., Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 12
As Bill Sees It, p. 313

Thought to Consider . . .

Joy isn't the absence of pain-- it's the presence of God.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
LET GO
Leave Everything To God, Okay?

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Release
From "On a Winter Day":
"I knew I had to have a new beginning, and this beginning had to be here. I could not start anywhere else. I had to let go of the past and forget the future. As long as I held on to the past with one hand and grabbed at the future with the other hand, I had nothing to hold on to today with. So I had to begin here, now.

"The next time I went back to my A.A. group, the "happy hypocrites" looked different to me. I began to see love in their eyes, a greater warmth than I had ever seen before. I mentioned it to my sponsor, and he said, 'The reason you see love in these people's eyes is because you are beginning to love them. The love that we see in their eyes is the reflection of our own love. We have got to love to be loved.'--Decatur, Georgia"

1973 AAWS, Inc.; Came to Believe, 30th printing 2004, pg. 46

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


It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.





- Pg. 85 - Into Action

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




...In All Our Affairs

The chief purpose of A.A. is sobriety. We all realize that without sobriety we have nothing.
However, it is possible to expand this simple aim into a great deal of nonsense, so far as the individual member is concerned. Sometimes we hear him say, in effect, 'Sobriety is my sole responsibility. After all, I'm a pretty fine chap, except for my drinking. Give me sobriety, and I've got it made!'
As long as our friend clings to this comfortable alibi, he will make so little progress with his real life problems and responsibilities that he stands in a fair way to get drunk again. This is why A.A.'s Twelfth Step urges that we 'practice these principles in all our affairs.' We are not living just to be sober; we are living to learn, to serve, and to love.

LETTER, 1966

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Member Submitted Quote



Sarcasm means to 'tear flesh' in Greek! ( Pandora )

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12 x 12 Quote

"As we glance down the debit side of the day's ledger, we should
carefully examine our motives in each thought or act that appears to be
wrong. In most cases our motives won't be hard to see and understand.
When prideful, angry, jealous, anxious, or fearful, we acted
accordingly, and that was that. Here we need only recognize that we did
act or think badly, try to visualize how we might have done better, and
resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow,
making, of course, any amends still neglected." (Twelve and Twelve,
Step Ten, pg. 94)