Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 10/30

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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Principles
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"Experience shows that few alcoholics
will long stay away from a group
just because they don't like the way it is run.
Most return and adjust themselves
to whatever conditions they must.
Some go to a different group, or form a new one.
In other words, once an alcoholic fully realizes
that he cannot get well alone,
he will somehow find a way to get well and stay well
in the company of others."
Bill W., Letter, 1943
c.1967AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 312
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Thought to Consider . . .

It isn't difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill
- just add a little dirt.



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H A L T = Honestly, Actively, Lovingly, Tolerant.

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Grim Routine
From: "Chapter 7: Make it snappy"
During this 17-year period [1918-1935], Dr. Bob had worked out a grim routine that permitted him to drink and somehow still maintain his medical practice. Careful never to go near the hospital while he was drinking, he would stay sober until four o'clock in the afternoon. It was really a horrible nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseum, he wrote. I used to promise my wife, my friends, and my children that I would drink no more - promises which seldom kept me sober through the day, though I was very sincere when I made them.

1984, AAWS, Inc., "PASS IT ON", page 140

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost
the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes
practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring
into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the
suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are
without defense against the first drink."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 24~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




Had I not been blessed with wise and loving advisers, I might have cracked up long ago. A doctor once saved me from death by alcoholism because he obliged me to face up to the deadliness of that malady. Another doctor, a psychiatrist, later on helped me save my sanity because he led me to ferret out some of my deep-lying defects. From a clergyman I acquired the truthful principles by which we A.A.'s now try to live.
But these precious friends did far more than supply me with their professional skills. I learned that I could go to them with any problem whatever. Their wisdom and their integrity were mine for the asking.
Many of my dearest A.A. friends have stood with me in exactly this same relation. Oftentimes they could help where others could not, simply because they were A.A.'s.

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Member Submitted Quote



You give the program a hour a day, and it you 23. - ( Suzz )

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12 x 12 Quote

"At this juncture, we can hear a churchman exclaim, 'They are making
disobedience a virtue!' He is joined by a psychiatrist who
says, 'Defiant brats! They won't grow up and conform to social usage!'
The man in the street says, 'I don't understand it. They must be nuts!'
But all these observers have overlooked something unique in Alcoholics
Anonymous. Unless each AA member follows to the best of his ability our
suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own
death warrant. His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties
inflicted by people in authority; they result from his personal
disobedience to spiritual principles." (Twelve and Twelve, Tradition
Nine, pg. 174)