Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 5/13

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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Disease

"Some strongly object to the AA position
that alcoholism is an illness.
This concept, they feel, removes
moral responsibility from alcoholics.
As any AA knows, this is far from true.
We do not use the concept of sickness
to absolve our members from responsibility.
On the contrary, we use the fact of fatal illness
to clamp the heaviest kind of moral obligation
onto the sufferer,
the obligation to use AA's Twelve Steps to get well."
Bill W., Talk, 1960 As Bill Sees It, p. 32

Thought to Consider . . .

The road to recovery is always under construction.





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STEPS
Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety

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Candor
STEP FIVE: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
"When we reached A.A., and for the first time in our lives stood among people who seemed to understand, the sense of belonging was tremendously exciting. We thought the isolation problem had been solved. But we soon discovered that while we weren't alone any more in a social sense we still suffered many of the old pangs of anxious apartness. Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn't belong. Step Five was the answer. It was the beginning of true kinship with man and God."

1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 57

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no
middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was
becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives:
One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept
spiritual help. This we did because we honestly wanted to, and were
willing to make the effort."


~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 46~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




'Privileged People'

I saw that I had been living too much alone, too much aloof from my fellows, and too deaf to that voice within. Instead of seeing myself as a simple agent bearing the message of experience, I had thought of myself as a founder of A.A.
How much better it would have been had I felt gratitude rather than self-satisfaction--gratitude that I had once suffered the pains of alcoholism, gratitude that a miracle of recovery had been worked upon me from above, gratitude for the privilege of serving my fellow alcoholics, and gratitude for those fraternal ties which bound me ever closer to them in a comradeship such as few societies of men have ever known.
Truly did a clergyman say to me, 'Your misfortune has become your good fortune. You A.A.'s are a privileged people.'

GRAPEVINE, JULY 1946

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Member Submitted Quote



Yesterday is a canceled check... Tomorrow is a promissory note.. Today is ready cash, spend it wisely! ( Al K. Holic )

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12 x 12 Quote

"Businesswomen in AA will naturally find that many of these questions
apply to them, too. But the alcoholic housewife can also make the
family financially insecure. She can juggle charge accounts, manipulate
the food budget, spend her afternoons gambling, and run her husband
into debt by irresponsibility, waste, and extravagance." (Twelve and
Twelve, Step Four, pg. 51)