Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 5/27

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

"On awakening let us think about
the twenty-four hours ahead.
We consider our plans for the day.
Before we begin,
we ask God to direct our thinking,
especially asking that it be
divorced from self-pity,
dishonest or self-seeking motives."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 86




Thought to Consider . . .

Faith dares the soul to go beyond
what the eyes can see.






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CRAP
Carry Resentments Against People

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Humility
STEP FIVE: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
"Another great dividend we may expect from confiding our defects to another human being is humility a word often misunderstood. To those who have made progress in A.A., it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be. Therefore, our first practical move toward humility must consist of recognizing our deficiencies."

1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 58

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"'There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which
is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in
everlasting ignorance, that principle is contempt prior to
investigation.'"

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Appendice II, Spiritual
Experience, pg. 568

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




We can be grateful for every agency or method that tries to solve the problem of alcoholism--whether of medicine, religion, education, or research. We can be open-minded toward all such efforts and we can be sympathetic when the ill-advised ones fail. We can remember that A.A. itself ran for years on 'trial and error.'
As individuals, we can and should work with those that promise success--even a little success.
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Every one of the pioneers in the total field of alcoholism will generously say that had it not been for the living proof of recovery in A.A., they could not have gone on. A.A. was the lodestar of hope and help that kept them at it.

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When nothing in my world seems to measure up, there is something wrong with the yardstick.