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I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. —Albert Camus— “Later.” How often have we said this? This trick help us avoid the tasks of the day. Life is full of task–many fun, some boring, others hard. Can I accept the task […]
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If you play with a thing long enough, you will surely break it. —Anonymous— Some things shouldn’t be played with. Our recovery program is one these things. When we play with our program, we’re taking a risk. We play with the program by missing meetings. Or by not calling our sponsors. Or by skipping the […]
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The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition. —Malcoln X— Now we know what the problem is. Now we can do something about it. The truth of our problem is, we can’t handle alcohol or other drugs. They handle us. They control us. The Steps ask us to face […]
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Remember always that you have not only the right to be individual, you have an obligation to be one. —Eleamnor Roosevelt— When we were using alcohol and other drugs, we often thought that we were different from others. We secretly thought that no one could understand us. Maybe we tried to be one of the […]
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…If there is a harder way of doing something, someone will find it. —Ralph E. Ross— When we used alcohol or other drugs, we did most things the hard way. We could turn a simple task into a day-long project. We could turn a simple problem into an argument. We were creative giants in doing […]
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I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. —Winston Churchill— We addicts are used to learning the hard way. Many of us think we’re different and can do things our own way. But then we get in too much trouble or pain.The first AA members were just like us. They […]
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Everything is funny as long as it happening to someone else. —Will Rogers— We laugh when others do something silly. We’re amused when something funny happens to them. But if the same happens to us and people laugh, we might give them the evil eye. Yet, when others laugh, it can free us. It frees […]
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Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see… —Bill W.— At times, we’ll go through pain and hardship, At times, we’ll have doubts. At times, we’ll get angry and think we just don’t care anymore. These things can spiritually blind us. But this normal. […]
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.—E.W. Howe…Do you let yourself be afraid of your illness? Many of us were scared into sobriety. Often, a spiritual awakening directly follows a good scare. Fear seems to improve our vision. Are you smart enough to run from your addiction? The First Step […]
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“We.”—First word of the Twelve Steps— We. This little word says a lot about the Twelve Steps. Our addiction made us lonely. The “we” of the program makes us whole again. It makes us a member of a living, growing group of people. Our addiction isolated us from others. We couldn’t be honest. We felt […]