Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 5/7

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Tornado

"The alcoholic is like a tornado
roaring his way through the lives of others.
Hearts are broken.
Sweet relationships are dead.
Affections have been uprooted.
Selfish and inconsiderate habits
have kept the home in turmoil.
We feel a man is unthinking
when he says that sobriety is enough.
He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar
to find his home ruined.
To his wife, he remarked,
'Don't see anything the matter here, Ma.
Ain't it grand the wind stopped blowin'?'"
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 82

Thought to Consider . . .

"We alcoholics are undisciplined.
So we let God discipline us..."

Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 88

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BUT
Being Unconvinced Totally

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Deadly
From "The Perpetual Quest":
"Within a dozen years, three of these five promising lawyers were dead from alcoholism, struck down at the peak of their careers. The judge is still and always has been a sober judge. And I somehow unwittingly, and even while drinking, turned into a corporate counsel and later, thankfully, became a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. The professor's kidneys gave out from one too many martinis; the exporting lawyer kept drinking until he died, despite a liver transplant; my ex-husband died in a fire on what was to be, he had said, his last drunk before doing to A.A. again, when I was ten years sober. I have been to too many premature funerals due to our good friend alcohol."

2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 388-89

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"Let no alcoholic say he cannot recover unless he has his family
back. This just isn't so. In some cases the wife will never come
back for one reason or another. Remind the prospect that his
recovery is not dependent upon people. It is dependent upon his
relationship with God. We have seen men get well whose families have not returned at all. We have seen others slip when the family came back too soon."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 99~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




Persistence in Prayer

We often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
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In A.A. we have found that the actual good results of prayer are beyond question. They are matters of knowledge and experience. All those who have persisted have found strength not ordinarily their own. They have found wisdom beyond their usual capability. And they have increasingly found a peace of mind which can stand in the face of difficult circumstances.

TWELVE AND TWELVE
1. P. 96
2. P. 104

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Member Submitted Quote



ON ACCEPTANCE... Never try to teach a pig to sing. You'll waste your time and annoy the pig. ( Porcupine )

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12 x 12 Quote

"When, and how, and in just what instances did my selfish pursuit of
the sex relation damage other people and me? What people were hurt, and
how badly? Did I spoil my marriage and injure my children? Did I
jeopardize my standing in the community? Just how did I react to these
situations at the time? Did I burn with guilt that nothing could
extinguish? Or did I insist that I was the pursued and not the pursuer,
and thus absolve myself? How have I reacted to frustration in sexual
matters? When denied, did I become vengeful or depressed? Did I take it
out on other people? If there was rejection or coldness at home, did I
use this as a reason for promiscuity?" (Twelve and Twelve, Step Four,
pg. 50)