Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 4/10

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Earnestness

"An alcoholic in his cups is an unlovely creature.
Our struggles with them are variously
strenuous, comic, and tragic.
One poor chap committed suicide in my home.
He could not, or would not, see our way of life.
There is, however, a vast amount of fun about it all.
I suppose some would be shocked at our
seeming worldliness and levity.
But just underneath there is
deadly earnestness.
Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day
in and through us,
or we perish."
Bill W., Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 92

Thought to Consider....

Laughter is the sound effect of recovery.

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DEAD
Drinking Ends All Dreams

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Message
From "The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous":
"Three blocks away from the main office we have a good-sized loft space where all shipping and mailing is done. This activity now runs into tons of material a month. Six busy lads spend full time at it. Last year they shipped about 40,000 books and hundreds of thousands of pamphlets, many of them newly designed and edited largely through the work of Ralph, our consultant on pamphlet literature. They mailed about 30,000 letters and bulletins and did huge quantities of mimeographing. [c. 1959]"

2001 AAWS, Inc.; Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 207

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"Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No
person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his
fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers
have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will
control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every
abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing.
Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, Page 30~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




The Forgotten Mountain

When I was a child, I acquired some of the traits that had a lot to do with my insatiable craving for alcohol. I was brought up in a little town in Vermont, under the shadow of Mount Aeolus. An early recollection is that of looking up at this vast and mysterious mountain, wondering what it meant and whether I could ever climb that high. But I was presently distracted by my aunt who, as a fourth-birthday present, made me a plate of fudge. For the next thirty-five years I pursued the fudge of life and quite forgot about the mountain.
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When self-indulgence is less than ruinous, we have a milder word for it. We call it 'taking our comfort.'

1. A.A. COMES OF AGE, PP. 52-53BR>2. TWELVE AND TWELVE, P. 67

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Member Submitted Quote



Depression is Anger without the enthusiasm. ( Renay B.)

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12 x 12 Quote

"Looking again at those defects we are still unwilling to give up, we
ought to erase the hard-and-fast lines that we have drawn. Perhaps we
shall be obliged in some cases still to say, 'This I cannot give up
yet...,' but we should not say to ourselves, 'This I will never give
up!'" (Twelve and Twelve, Step Six, pg. 69)