Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 5/11

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Maturity

"Many oldsters who have put our AA 'booze cure'
to severe but successful tests
still find they often lack emotional sobriety.
To attain this,
we must develop a real maturity and balance
(which is to say humility)
in our relations with ourselves,
with our fellows,
and with God."

Bill W., Box 1980: The AA Grapevine, January 1958
As Bill Sees It, p. 244




Thought to Consider . . .

"We must find a spiritual basis of life -- or else."

Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 44






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Attitude Adjustment

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Inspiration
From "This Spirit Touch":
"At some time, perhaps in a more moderate way, nearly everyone has experienced this spirit touch of God" the fleeting feeling of insight, love, joy, and 'The world is right.' Once, I thought that only unusual circumstances made these moments possible. Actually, I now think, they are forecasts of what one can have if one is willing to take the time and make the effort. Peace, love, and joy can be sought through quiet thinking and honest prayer. The wholeness, the new awareness, that is produced affects one's relationship with God and man to a degree greater than would seem possible in ordinary life."

AAWS, Inc.; Came to Believe, 30th printing 2004, pg. 65

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"We do not like to pronounce any individual as alcoholic, but you can
quickly diagnose yourself, Step over to the nearest barroom and try
some controlled drinking. Try to drink and stop abruptly. Try it
more than once. It will not take long for you to decide, if you are
honest with yourself about it. It may be worth a bad case of jitters
if you get a full knowledge of your condition."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 31~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




Obstacles in Our Path

We live in a world riddled with envy. To a greater or lesser degree, everybody is infected with it. From this defect we must surely get a warped yet definite satisfaction. Else why would we consume so much time wishing for what we have not, rather than working for it, or angrily looking for attributes we shall never have, instead of adjusting to the fact, and accepting it?
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Each of us would like to live at peace with himself and with his fellows. We would like to be assured that the grace of God can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.
We have seen that character defects based upon shortsighted or unworthy desires are the obstacles that block our path toward these objectives. We now clearly see that we have been making unreasonable demands upon ourselves, upon others, and upon God.

TWELVE AND TWELVE
1. P. 67
2. P. 76]

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Member Submitted Quote



Deja Fu: The feeling that somehow, somewhere, you've been kicked in the head like this before.

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12 x 12 Quote

We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about
the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on
order and our our terms. Almost any experienced AA will tell how his
affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he
tried to improve his conscious contact with God. He will also report
that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God
seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new
resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the
conviction came that God does 'move in a mysterious way His wonders to
perform.'" (Twelve and Twelve, Step Eleven, pg. 104)