Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 4/15

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Intoxication

"As newcomers, many of us have indulged
in spiritual intoxication.
Like a prospector,
belt drawn in over the last ounce of food,
we saw our pick strike gold.
Joy at our release from a lifetime
of frustration knew no bounds.
The newcomer feels he has struck
something better than gold.
He may not see at once
that he has barely scratched a limitless lode
which will pay dividends
only if he mines it for the rest of his life
and insists on giving away
the entire product."

Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 128-9
As Bill Sees It, p. 57

Thought to Consider . . .

We give it away to keep it.

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T H I N K = The Happiness I Never Knew

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Excuses
Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
"The majority of A.A. members have suffered severely from self-justification during their drinking days. For most of us, self-justification was the maker of excuses; excuses, of course, for drinking, and for all kinds of crazy and damaging conduct. We had made the invention of alibis a fine art. We had to drink because times were hard or times were good. We had to drink because at home we were smothered with love or got none at all. We had to drink because at work we were great successes or dismal failures. We had to drink because our nation had won a war or lost a peace. And so it went, ad infinitum."

1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pgs. 46-47

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"When we decide who is to hear our story, we waste no time. We have
a written inventory and we are prepared for a long talk. We explain
to our partner what we are about to do and why we have to do it. He
should realize that we are engaged upon a life-and-death errand.
Most people approached in this way will be glad to help; they will be
honored by our confidence."

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 75

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




Move Ahead

To spend too much time on any one alcoholic is to deny some other an opportunity to live and be happy. One of our Fellowship failed entirely with his first half-dozen prospects. He often says that if he had continued to work on them, he might have deprived many others, who have since recovered, of their chance.
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'Our chief responsibility to the newcomer is an adequate presentation of the program. If he does nothing or argues, we do nothing but maintain our own sobriety. If he starts to move ahead, even a little, with an open mind, we then break our necks to help in every way we can.'

1. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 96
2. LETTER, 1942

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Member Submitted Quote



Cunning, baffling, powerful: I can't outsmart it; I can't figure it out; and I sure can't whip it. (Mark W.)

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12 x 12 Quote

"In a neighboring state, Ed had holed up in a cheap hotel. After all
his pleas for help had been rebuffed, these words rang in his fevered
mind: 'They have deserted me. I have been deserted by my own kind. This
is the end...nothing is left.' As he tossed on his bed, his hand
brushed the bureau near by, touching a book. Opening the book, he read.
It was a Gideon Bible. Ed never confided any more of what he saw and
felt in that hotel room. It was the year 1938. He hasn't had a drink
since." (Twelve and Twelve, Tradition Three, pg. 144)