Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 6/11

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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Gratitude
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"Another exercise that I practice
is to try for a full inventory of my blessings
and then for a right acceptance of the many gifts that are mine -
both temporal and spiritual.
Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude.
When such a brand of gratitude is repeatedly affirmed
and pondered,
it can finally displace the natural tendency
to congratulate myself on whatever progress
I may have been enabled to make in some areas of living.
I try hard to hold fast to the truth
that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits.
When brimming with gratitude,
one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love,
the finest emotion that we can ever know."
Bill W., March 1962
1988AAGrapevine, The Language of the Heart, p. 271
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Thought to Consider . . .

I have learned what a heart full of gratitude feels like.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
T H I N K = The Happiness I Never Knew

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*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*

Illness
From "Building a New Life":
"That year I went to an alcohol treatment program twice. The first time I was in treatment, I was shaving at the mirror in the bathroom and it seemed to me that my beard was growing back in as fast as I could shave it off. Even though I was in a hospital gown, I escaped, running down the streets and jumping up and over fences. I was on the porch of a woman's house banging on the door for her to let me in when the police arrived. I tried to convince them she was my wife and my children were inside, but they saw the hospital bracelet on my wrist, and they took me back to the program. "The doctor told me that if I went into D.T.'s like that again I might not come out."

2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 482

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*

"In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we
could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced now that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him. If you have
already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps,
you have made a good beginning. That being so you have swallowed and
digested some big chunks of truth about yourself."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 70~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




We need to distinguish sharply between spiritual simplicity and functional simplicity.
When we say that A.A. advocates no theological proposition except God as we understand Him, we greatly simplify A.A. life by avoiding conflict and exclusiveness.
But when we get into questions of action by groups, by areas, and by A.A. as a whole, we find that we must to some extent organize to carry the message--or else face chaos. And chaos is not simplicity.
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I learned that the temporary or seeming good can often be the deadly enemy of the permanent best. When it comes to survival for A.A., nothing short of our very best will be good enough.

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Member Submitted Quote



Dear God, Help me keep my opinion out of your way today. ( Maria E. )

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12 x 12 Quote

"But today, in well-matured AA's, these distorted drives have been
restored to something like their true purpose and direction. We no
longer strive to dominate or rule those about us in order to gain
self-importance. We no longer seek fame and honor in order to be
praised. When by devoted service to family, friends, business, or
community we attract widespread affection and are sometimes singled
out for posts of greater responsibility and trust, we try to be
humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and
service. True leadership, we find, depends upon able example and not
upon vain displays of power or glory." (Twelve and Twelve, Step
Twelve, pg. 124)

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i dont know why these ads keep popping up in my threads????

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I see them as well. I don't know either.....:(