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Drinking is the way we alcoholics express our maladjustment’s to life. I believe that I was a potential alcoholic from the start. I had an inferiority complex. I didn’t make friends easily. There was a wall between me and other people. And I was lonely. I was not well adjusted to life. Did I drink […]
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Rudeness is a weak persons attempt at strength. —J. Matthew Casey— How others treat us indicates the self-assurance attained by those persons. Confident, content, self-respecting people are ably respectful to others. We often doubt our ability, either physical or intellectual, because someone has heaped criticism upon us. The converse is likewise true. How we treat […]
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Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep. —Agnes Meyer— A tree’s roots seek water and minerals. Though the roots can’t be seen easily seen, they are there. The life of the tree depends on them. The stronger a tree’s roots, the higher a tree can grow. We need to set deep roots into the […]
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Life is only this place, this time, and these people right here and now. —Vincent Collins— Staying in the present can be hard. This busy world pulls our focus from the present. We often wonder if the future will bring good times or bad times. Life is right before us. Look around. Life is happening—now! […]
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Anyone can blame; it takes a specialist to praise. —Konstantin Stanislavski— True praise is a form of love. Mystics and saints have seen the whole living, breathing world as a hymn of praise to the Creator Spirit. This spiritual vision implies that praise is both a natural act and an art; simply being can be […]
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We alcoholics are fortunate to be living in a day and age when there is such a thing as Alcoholics Anonymous. Before A.A. came into being, there was very little hope for the alcoholic. A.A. is a great rebuilder of human wreckage. It takes men and women whose personality problem expresses itself in alcoholism and […]
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The level of anxiety I feel when an attractive woman enters the room is the cue informing me of my closeness to God at that moment. —Anonymous— Our security lies now and always in our relationship with God. When we are spiritually connected, we don’t lack confidence, self-assurance. We don’t doubt our value to those […]
Daily Reflections <!--060525-->
ENTIRELY READY? “This is the Step that separates the men from the boys.”. . . the difference between “the boys and the men” is the difference between striving for a self determined objective and for the perfect objective which is of God. . . . It is suggested that we ought to become entirely willing […]
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No person ever attempted to wrong another without being injured in return—someday, somehow, sometime. —William George Jordan— Whatever our actions today, they will repay us in kindness. Our choices will be many, as will our opportunities. Kindness fosters kindness. Respect elicits respect. A positive attitude clears the way for smooth sailing. We create the world […]
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LETTING GO OF OUR OLD SELVES Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last. . . . Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted […]