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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. —Clementine Pappleford— At meetings, we meet people who have what we want. Our old way is to think these people are better or luckier than us. Our old way is to wish we were like them. But our program tells us how to work […]
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The worst sin against our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity. — George Bernard Shaw— The greatest Gift we can give is rapt attention to one another’s existence. Of one thing we can be certain: we each are in this world by design. […]
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When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth. […]
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If we have had some moral, religious, or spiritual training, we’re better prospects for A.A. When we reach the bottom, at this crucial moment when we’re thoroughly licked, we turn instinctively to whatever decency is left in us. We call upon whatever reserves of morality and faith are left down deep in our heart. Have […]
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The solution to my life occurred to me one evening while I was ironing a shirt. —Alice Munro— We all receive flashes of illumination, messages likes shafts of lightning from one part of our brain to another. This is the answer! This is the meaning of life! Mathematicians tell stories of equations solved in a […]
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Many of us achieve only the semblance of communication with others; what we say is often not contingent on what the other has just said, and neither of us is aware that we are not communicating. —Desy Safán-Gerard— When we don’t listen fully to each other, when we don’t revere the Spirit within others that’s […]
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We finally came to the bottom. We did not have to be financially broke, although many of us were. But we were spiritually bankrupt. We had a soul-sickness, a revulsion against ourselves and against our way of living. Life had become impossible for us. We had to end it all or do something about it. […]
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LIVING IN THE NOW First, we try living in the now just in order to stay sober — and it works. Once the idea has become a part of our thinking, we find that living life in 24 hour segments is an effective and satisfying way to handle many other matters as well. LIVING SOBER, […]
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Anyone can blame; it takes a specialist to praise. —Konstantin Stanislawski— Are we blamers? We sure were blamers when we were using alcohol and other drugs. Then everything was someone’s fault. Some of us did our blaming out loud. And some of us blamed others silently. It’s harder to praise than to blame people. Faults […]
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OPENING UP TO CHANGE Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision, action, and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God’s help. . . . we find that bit […]