Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 6/21

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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Change
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"Let us never fear needed change.
Certainly we have to discriminate between
changes for worse and changes for better.
But once a need becomes clearly apparent
in an individual, in a group, or in AA as a whole,
it has long since been found out
that we cannot stand still and look the other way.
The essence of all growth is a willingness
to change for the better
and then an unremitting willingness
to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails."
Bill W., Grapevine, July 1965
1967AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 115
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Thought to Consider . . .

God used two people to create me;
He used a whole Fellowship to change me.

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A C T I O N = Any Change Toward Improving One's Nature.

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Steps
From "The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous":
"Though subject to considerable variation, it all boiled down into a pretty consistent procedure which comprised six steps. These were approximately as follows:

1. "We admitted that we were licked, that we were powerless over alcohol.

2. "We made a moral inventory of our defects or sins.

3. "We confessed or shared our shortcomings with another person in confidence.

4. "We made restitution to all those we have harmed by our drinking.

5. "We tried to help other alcoholics, with no thought of reward in money or prestige.
6. We prayed to whatever God we thought there was for power to practice these precepts.
"This was the substance of what, by the fall of 1938, we were telling newcomers. Several of the Oxford Groups other ideas and attitudes had been definitely rejected, including any which could involve us in theological controversy."

2001 AAWS, Inc.; Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 160

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

"Although financial recovery is on the way for many of us, we found
we could not place money first. For us, material well-being always
followed spiritual progress; it never preceded."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 127~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




Only God can fully know what absolute honesty is. Therefore, each of us has to conceive what this great ideal may be--to the best or our ability.
'Fallible as we all are, and will be in this life, it would be presumption to suppose that we could ever really achieve absolute honesty. The best we can do is to strive for a better quality of honesty.
'Sometimes we need to place love ahead of indiscriminate 'factual honesty.' We cannot, under the guise of 'perfect honesty,' cruelly and unnecessarily hurt others. Always one must ask, 'What is the best and most loving thing I can do?'

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Member Submitted Quote



It's not a matter of where you stand but in what direction you're headed.

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12 x 12 Quote

"Since this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we
should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice
of it can mean to us. Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is
the foundation principle of each of AA's Twelve Steps. For without
some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. Nearly
all AA's have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this
precious quality than may be required just for sobriety, they still
haven't much chance of becoming truly happy. Without it, they cannot
live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the
faith that can meet any emergency." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Seven,
pg.70)