Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 10/29

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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Touchstones
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"All AA progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words:
humility and responsibility.
Our whole spiritual development can be accurately
measured by our degree of adherence to these
magnificent standards.
Ever deepening humility,
accompanied by an ever greater willingness
to accept and act upon clear-cut obligations --
these are truly our touchstones
for all growth in the life of the spirit.
They hold up to us the very essence
of right being and right doing.
It is by them that we are enabled to find and to do God's will."
Bill W., Talk, 1965
c.1967AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 271^*^*^*^*^

Thought to Consider . . .

The solution is simple.
The solution is spiritual.

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S O B E R = Simply Observe Bill's Exemplary Recovery

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


Focus
From: "Acceptance Was the Answer"
I can do the same thing with an AA meeting. The more I focus my mind on its defects - late start, long drunkalogs, cigarette smoke - the worse the meeting becomes. But when I try to see what I can add to the meeting, rather than what I can get out of it, and when I focus my mind on what's good about it, rather than what's wrong with it, the meeting keeps getting better and better. When I focus on what's good today, I have a good day, and when I focus on what's bad, I have a bad day. If I focus on a problem, the problem increases; if I focus on the answer, the answer increases.

2001, AAWS, Inc., Alcoholics Anonymous, page 419

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to
Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give
freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the
Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you
trudge the Road of Happy Destiny."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 164~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




We A.A.'s are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck, when camaraderie, joyousness, and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to captain's table.
Unlike the feelings of the ship's passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways. The feeling of sharing in a common peril - relapse into alcoholism - continues to be an important element in the powerful cement which binds us of A.A. together.

Our first woman alcoholic had been a patient of Dr. Harry Tiebout's, and he had handed her a prepublication manuscript copy of the Big Book. The first reading made her rebellious, but the second convinced her. Presently she came to a meeting held in our living room, and from there she returned to the sanitarium carrying this classic message to a fellow patient: 'We aren't alone any more.'

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Member Submitted Quote



What We Resist - Persists

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12 x 12 Quote

"Take the case of the club janitor and cook. If a club is going to
function, it has to be habitable and hospitable. We tried volunteers,
who were quickly disenchanted with sweeping floors and brewing coffee
seven days a week. They just didn't show up. Even more important, an
empty club couldn't answer its telephone, but it was an open invitation
to a drunk on a binge who possessed a spare key. So somebody had to
look after the place full time. If we hired an alcoholic, he'd receive
only what we'd have to pay a non-alcoholic for the same job. The job
was not to do Twelfth Step work; it was to make Twelfth Step work
possible. It was a service proposition, pure and simple." (Twelve and
Twelve, Tradition Eight, pg. 167)