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Beauty is gift of God. —Aristotle— In our addiction, we often went after what was ugly in life. Maybe we hung out in bad places. Maybe we saw people’s defects instead of their beauty. Addiction is ugly, painful disease. The worst part of addiction is how it doesn’t let us see beauty in the world. […]
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Alcohol is our weakness. We suffer from mental conflicts from which we look for escape by drowning our problems in drink. We try through drink to push away from the realities of life. But alcohol does not feed, alcohol does not build, it only borrows from the future and it ultimately destroys. We try to […]
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A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are enabled to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better effect. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 95 When I came to A. A., I was run down by the bottle and wanted to lose the obsession […]
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The grand essentials to happiness in this life are having something to do, something to love and something to hope for. —Joseph Addison— focusing attention outside of ourselves on hobbies, on goals, on friends, steadily bathes us with inspiration and enthusiasm for moving forward. And this movement, in turn, rekindles our commitment to all our […]
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If you attach yourself to one person, you ultimately end up having an unhealthy relationship. —Shirley MacLaine— Needing people in our lives is healthy, human and natural. Needing a single person to love at a very deep level, is also soothing to the soul’s well-being. Love and attachment are not synonymous, however. They are close […]
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different. Death comes to everyone, but one mourns alone. —John Berger— What wonderful creatures we human beings are—so alike, and yet so different! We can work together; we have built the pyramids, the Great Wall, the great cathedrals of Europe, the temples of Peru. We can make […]
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. . . How much bondage and suffering a woman escapes when she takes the liberty of being her own physician of both body and soul. —Elizabeth Cady Stanton— If we listen to ourselves, to the innermost voice of our Spirits, we know that we have the power to heal ourselves. Self-healing begins with making […]
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TRUSTING OTHERS But does trust require that we be blind to other people’s motives or, indeed, to our own? Not at all; this would be folly. Most certainly, we should assess the capacity for harm as well as the capability for good in every person that we would trust. Such a private inventory can reveal […]
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Words are sacred, we must use them wisely. . . . They are a gift from God. Burton Pretty-On-Top We use words to bring peace to others. We can use words to tell God and others how much we care. Or we can use words to hurt others. We can curse them and scare them […]
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No chain is stronger than its weakest link. Likewise, if you fail in the day-by-day program, in all probability it will be your weakest point. Great faith and constant contact with God’s power can help you discover, guard, and undergird your weakest point with a strength not your own. Intelligent faith in God’s power can […]