Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 5/9

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Anonymity

"We have denied ourselves personal government,
professionalism, and the right to say
who our members shall be.
We have abandoned do-goodism,
reform, and paternalism.
We refuse charitable money and prefer
to pay our own way.
We will cooperate with practically everybody,
yet we decline to marry our Society to anyone.
We abstain from public controversy and will not
quarrel among ourselves about
those things that so rip society asunder--
religion, politics, and reform.
We have but one purpose;
to carry the AA message
to the sick alcoholic who wants it."
Bill W., The Language of the Heart, p. 211

Thought to Consider . . .

AA is not something you join, it's a way of life.


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ANONYMOUS
Actions Not Our Names Yield Maintenance Of Unity & Service

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Psychology
From "Medicine Looks at Alcoholics Anonymous":":
"As excuse-makers and rationalizers, we drunks are champions. It is the business of the psychiatrist to get behind our excuses and to find the deeper causes for our conduct. Though uninstructed in psychiatry, we can, after a little time in A.A., see that our motives have not been what we thought they were and that we have been motivated by forces unknown to us. Therefore we ought to look with the deepest respect, interest, and profit upon the findings of psychiatry, remembering that up to now the psychiatrists have been far more tolerant of us than we have been of them. "Bill W."

2001 AAWS, Inc.; Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 236

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"Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for
the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his
spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could
not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not
work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely
die. Then faith would be dead indeed. With us it is just like that."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 14~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




The Way of Strength

We need not apologize to anyone for depending upon the Creator. We have good reason to disbelieve those who think spirituality is the way of weakness. For us, it is the way of strength.
The verdict of the ages is that men of faith seldom lack courage. They trust their God. So we never apologize for our belief in Him demonstrate, through us, what He can do.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 68

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Member Submitted Quote



The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ( Robert M. Pirsig )

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12 x 12 Quote

"Like most people, we have found that we can take our big lumps as they
come. But also like others, we often discover a greater challenge in
the lesser and more continuous problems of life. Our answer is in still
more spiritual development. Only by this means can we improve our
chances for really happy and useful living. And as we grow spiritually,
we find that our old attitudes toward our instincts need to undergo
drastic revisions. Our desires for emotional security and wealth, for
personal prestige and power, for romance, and for family satisfactions--
all these have to be tempered and redirected. We have learned that the
satisfaction of instincts cannot be the sole end and aim of our lives.
If we place instincts first, we have got the cart before the horse; we
shall be pulled backward into disillusionment. But when we are willing
to place spiritual growth first--then and only then do we have a real
chance." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Twelve, pg. 114)