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A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. —Benjamin Franklin— Many of us come from families that aren’t very healthy for us. Many families have lots of love but aren’t able to show it. Maybe our parents argued or drank to much. When we share our recovery with […]
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Before alcoholics come into A.A., they are “flying blind.” But A.A. gives them a directed beam in the A.A. program. As long as they keep on this beam, the signal of sobriety keeps coming through. If they have a slip, the signal is broken. If they swing off course into drunkenness, the signal stops. Unless […]
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It seems that there is a direct connection between creative thought and involvement in life and the production of epinephrine by the adrenal gland. When the challenge stops, the supply is turned off; the will to live atrophies. —Norman Cousins— Living on the fringes of activities is a choice we can make. Always holding back, […]
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The trouble is not that we are never happy–it is that happiness is so episodical. —Ruth Benedict— Happiness is our birthright. The decision to be happy is ours to make, every day, when confronted with any experience. Too many of us grew up believing that life needed to be a certain way for us to […]
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HUMILITY IS A GIFT, p.203 As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question. That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God’s will, was missing. 12 & 12, p.72 When I first came to A.A., I wanted to find some […]
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Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed. —Irene Peter— Our life changed a lot when we stopped drinking and using other drugs. But this is only a start. We need to go further. Our old attitudes can kill us, even if we aren’t drinking or drugging any more. This is called a […]
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…he yearned to package for each of the children, the grandchildren, for everyone, the joyous certainty, that sense of mattering, of moving and being moved, of being one and indivisible with the great of the past, with all that freed, ennobled. —Tillie Olsen— In childhood we glimpse the dear connectedness of life. The delicious that […]
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… those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future. —Simone de Beauvoir— Hanging on to any moment, once it’s gone, deadens us to the joys and lessons of the present. We must learn […]
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Today is ours. Let us live today as we believe God wants us to live. Each day will have a new pattern which we cannot foresee. But we can open each day with a quiet period in which we say a little prayer, asking God to help us through the day. Personal contact with God, […]
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GIVING UP CENTER STAGE, p.202 For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. . . Without it, they cannot live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency. 12 & 12, p.70 Why do I balk at the word “humility”? […]