Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 4/13

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Amends

"Learning how to live in the greatest peace,
partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women,
of whatever description, is a moving
and fascinating adventure.
Every AA has found that he can make little headway
in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks
and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey
of the human wreckage he has left in his wake."
Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 77
As Bill Sees It, p. 145

Thought to Consider . . .

We are as sick as our secrets.





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DENIAL
Don't Even Notice I Am Lying

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Setback
From "Evidence of a Miracle":
"Now I see how monumental my self-deception was. During that first thirteen years, my sobriety was not of the high quality it seemed to be. During the two years that followed, I actually convinced myself that it was a privilege to be able to drink. When I returned to A.A., its precepts seemed entirely new to me, particularly the meaning of the First Step, the 'atom bomb of the program.' Instead of taking the Steps and forgetting them, this time I began living them daily, finding new meaning in each one."

1973 AAWS, Inc.; Came to Believe, 30th printing 2004, pg. 96

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"When working with a man and his family, you should take care not to
participate in their quarrels. You may spoil your chance of being
helpful if you do. But urge upon a man's family that he has been a
very sick person and should be treated accordingly. You should warn
against arousing resentment or jealousy. You should point out that
his defects of character are not going to disappear over night. Show
them that he has entered upon a period of growth. Ask them to
remember, when they are impatient, the blessed fact of his sobriety."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 100~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




Principle Before Expediency

Most of us thought good character was desirable. Obviously, good character was something one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied. With a proper display of honesty and morality, we'd stand a better chance of getting what we really wanted. But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, character-building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.
Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in itself. We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.
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How to translate a right mental conviction into a right emotional result, and so into easy, happy, and good living, is the problem of life itself.

1. TWELVE AND TWELVE, PP. 71-72
2. GRAPEVINE, JANUARY 1958

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Member Submitted Quote



If you hold on to your Sponsor with one hand and a Sponsee with the other, you can't pick up a drink !! ( Al K. Holic )

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12 x 12 Quote

"Now, what of prayer? Prayer is the raising of the heart and mind to
God...and in this sense it includes meditation. How may we go about it?
And how does it fit in with meditation? Prayer, as commonly understood,
is a petition to God. Having opened our channel as best we can, we try
to ask for those things of which we and others are in the greatest
need. And we think that the whole range of our needs is well defined by
that part of Step Eleven which says: '...knowledge of His will for us
and the power to carry that out.' A request for this fits in any part
of our day." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Eleven, pg. 102)