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The lust for power is not rooted in strength, but to weakness. We believed Alcohol or other drugs could help us control our happiness. But now we’re learning to rely on faith for our happiness. Faith is about leaving things to our Higher Power’s control. Instead of wanting the control ourselves, we trust our Higher […]
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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet. —Mary Catherwood— Conversation does not always assure, or even imply, self-revelation. Trading words is easily, frequently,and safely done; however, it doesn’t introduce us to one-another that resides within. Knowing one another can only be fostered by soul-baring. Each of us […]
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FORMING TRUE PARTNERSHIPS But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. […]
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If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature’s greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal. —Catherine Ponder— Feeling joy may not come naturally to us […]
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When we came into A.A., we made a tremendous discovery. We found that we were sick persons rather than moral lepers. We were not such odd ducks as we thought we were. We found other people who had the same illness that we had, who had been through the same experiences that we had been […]
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We alcoholics have to believe in some Power greater than ourselves. Yes, we have to believe in God. Not to believe in a Higher Power drives us to atheism. Atheism, it has been said before, is blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere. That’s practically […]
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Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend. — Hebrew Proverb— In recovery we take our worst enemy, addiction, and turn it around. We were ashamed of our addiction. Over time we become proud of our recovery. We were our own worst enemy. Now we’re our own best friend. We […]
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FAMILY OBLIGATIONS . . . a spiritual life which does not include . . . family obligations may not be so perfect after all. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 129 I can be doing great in the program–applying it at meetings, at work, and in service activities–and find that things have gone to pieces at home. I […]
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The mind is a baby giant who, more provident in the cradle than he knows, and hurled his paths in life all round him, like playthings… . —Robert Frost— Sometimes we are bewildered by the options open to us. We feel we have no way of knowing which course would be best. But when we […]
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My lifetime listens to yours. —Muriel Rukeyser— Our experiences educate us to help show each other the way. Others’ experiences, likewise, will help still others. We need to share our histories. And the program offers us the way. There is no greater honor we can give one another than rapt attention. We each want to […]