Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 11/4

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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Peace of Mind

"AA has taught me that I will have peace of mind
in exact proportion to the peace of mind
I bring into the lives of other people,
and it has taught me the true meaning of the admonition
'happy are ye who know these things and do them.'
For the only problems I have now are those I create
when I break out in a rash of self-will."
c. 1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 551
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Thought to Consider . . .

I never imagined that the greatest achievement of my life
would be peace of mind.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
P E A C E = Providing Experienced Attitude Changes Every day.

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Turning Point

Step Seven: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
We saw we needn't always be bludgeoned and beaten into humility. It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering. A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have. It marked the time when we could commence to see the full implication of Step Seven: "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

1981, AAWS, Inc., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man,
woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured
by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form
or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and
miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as
old as man himself."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 55~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




During acute depression, avoid trying to set your whole life in order all at once. If you take on assignments so heavy that you are sure to fail in them at the moment, then you are allowing yourself to be tricked by your unconscious. Thus you will continue to make sure of your failure, and when it comes you will have another alibi for still more retreat into depression.
In short, the 'all or nothing' attitude is a most destructive one. It is best to begin with whatever the irreducible minimums of activity are. Then work for an enlargement of these day by day. Don't be disconcerted by setbacks - just start over.

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Member Submitted Quote



Three Musts to stay sober: Trust God; Clean House; Help others. - Michael G.

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12 x 12 Quote

"Then I woke up. I had to admit that AA showed results, prodigious
results. I saw that my attitude regarding these had been anything but
scientific. It wasn't AA that had the closed mind, it was me. The
minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see and feel. Right there,
Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I
can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a
Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. To
acquire it, I had only to stop fighting and practice the rest of AA's
program as enthusiastically as I could." (Twelve and Twelve, Step
Two, pg. 27)