Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 4/22

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Meditation

"Perhaps one of the greatest rewards
of meditation and prayer
is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
We no longer live in a completely hostile world.
We are no longer lost and frightened and purposeless.
We know that God lovingly watches over us.
We know that when we turn to Him,
all will be well with us,
here and hereafter."

Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 105
As Bill Sees It, p. 117

Thought to Consider . . .

Prayer is asking a question;
meditation is listening to the answer.

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G R A C E
Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations

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Resentment
Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
"But in A.A. we slowly learned that something had to be done about our vengeful resentments, self-pity, and unwarranted pride. We had to see that every time we played the big shot, we turned people against us. We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others. We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we thought caused it."

1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 47

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"Outsiders are sometimes shocked when we burst into merriment over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past. But why shouldn't
we laugh? We have recovered, and have been given the power to help
others."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 132~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




Complete Security?

Upon entering A.A., the spectacle of years of waste threw us into panic. financial importance was no longer our principal aim; we now clamored for material security.
Even when we were re-established in our business, terrible fears often continued to haunt us. This made us misers and penny-pinchers all over again. Complete financial security we must have--or else.
We forgot that most alcoholics in A.A. have an earning power considerably above average; we forgot the immense good will of our brother A.A.'s who were only too eager to help us to better jobs when we deserved them; we forgot the actual or potential financial insecurity of every human being in the world. And, worst of all, we forgot God. In money matters we had faith only in ourselves, and not too much of that.

TWELVE AND TWELVE, PP. 120-121

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Member Submitted Quote



Living our pre-AA active daily lifestyle was akin to switching seats on the Titanic.

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12 x 12 Quote

"The best-intentioned of us can fall for the 'two-step' illusion.
Sooner or later the pink cloud stage wears off and things go
disappointingly dull. We begin to think that AA doesn't pay off after
all. We become puzzled and discouraged." (Twelve and Twelve, Step
Twelve, pg. 113)