Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 11/25

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Vision

"Vision is, I think, the ability to make good estimates,
both for the immediate and for the more distant future.
Some might feel this sort of striving to be a sort of heresy,
because we AA's are constantly telling ourselves,
'One day at a time.'
But that valuable principle really refers to
our mental and emotional lives
and means chiefly that we are not to foolishly
repine over the past nor wishfully
day-dream about the future. . .
Vision is therefore the very essence of prudence,
an essential virtue if ever there was one.
Of course we shall often miscalculate the future
in whole or in part,
but that is better than to refuse to think at all."
Bill W., 1962
c. 1962AAWS, Twelve Concepts for World Service, 26th printing, p. 40
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Thought to Consider . . .

Right actions for the future
are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
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T I M E = Things I Must Earn

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Look Squarely
Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what these liabilities in each of us have been, and are. We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves. By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for us. Without a searching and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.

1981, AAWS, Inc., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pages 42-43


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"Selfishness self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of
our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-
seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they
retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation,
but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made
decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be
hurt."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 62~


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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




In praying, our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case, we are asking God to do it our way. Therefore, we ought to consider each request carefully to see what its real merit is.
Even so, when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification: '. . . if it be Thy will.'



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Member Submitted Quote



Not drinking is a symptom of my recovery.


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12 x 12 Quote

"It was obviously necessary to raise the bottom the rest of us had hit
to the point where it would hit them. By going back in our own drinking
histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out
of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was
indeed the beginning of a fatal progression. To the doubters we could
say, 'Perhaps you're not an alcoholic after all. Why don't you try some
more controlled drinking, bearing in mind meanwhile what we have told
you about alcoholism?' This attitude brought immediate and practical
results." (Twelve and Twelve, Step One, pg. 23)