Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 4/14

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Selfishness

"Selfishness - self-centeredness!
That, we think, is the root of our troubles.
Driven by a hundred forms of fear,
self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity,
we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
Sometimes they hurt us,
seemingly without provocation,
but we invariably find that at some time in the past
we have made decisions based on self
which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
So our troubles, we think,
are basically of our own making."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 62

Thought to Consider . . .

Spirituality is the ability
to get our minds off ourselves.

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BUT
Being Unconvinced Totally

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Health
From "The Family Afterward":
"A body badly burned by alcohol does not often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling. We are convinced that a spiritual mode of living is a most powerful health restorative. We, who have recovered from serious drinking, are miracles of mental health. Hardly one of our crowd now shows any mark of dissipation.

"But this does not mean that we disregard human health measures. God has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons."

2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 133

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"So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They
arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of
self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 62~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




Our New Employer

We had a new Employer. Being all powerful, He provided what we needed, if we kept close to Him and performed His work well.
Established on such a footing, we became less and less interested in ourselves, our little plans and designs. More and more we became interested in seeing what we could contribute to life.
As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow, or the hereafter. We were reborn.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 63

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Member Submitted Quote



God loved me enough to land me in a place where everyone as, or had been, as crazy as me... (Tony H.)

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12 x 12 Quote

"Of course all AA's, even the best, fall far short of such
achievements as a consistent thing. Without necessarily taking that
first drink, we often get quite far off the beam. Our troubles
sometimes begin with indifference. We are sober and happy in our AA
work. Things go well at home and office. We naturally congratulate
ourselves on what later proves to be a far too easy and superficial
point of view. We temporarily cease to grow because we feel satisfied
that there is no need for all of AA's Twelve Steps for us. We are doing
fine on a few of them. Maybe we are doing fine on only two of them, the
First Step and that part of the Twelfth where we 'carry the message.'
In AA slang, that blissful state is known as 'two-stepping.' And it can
go on for years." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Twelve, pg. 112)