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I am the greatest. —Muhammad Ali— We need to believe in ourselves. We’re sober. We’re honest. We’re trustworthy. We’re not making so many problems for other people anymore We do our share. We can even help others sometimes. We’re glad that others help us. We thank our Higher Power every day. But we also give […]
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown. —Hugh Prather— Everyone makes mistakes. We all know that. So why is it so hard to admit our own? We seem to think we have to be prefect. We have a hard time looking at our mistakes. But our mistakes can be very good teachers. […]
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ––Eleanor Roosevelt— Most of us want to be happy. We just don’t know how. We aren’t sure what happiness is. We’ve learned the hard way that some things we wanted didn’t make us happy. We’re learning that happiness comes when we live the way our Higher […]
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Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. —Step Five— Step Five can be scary. we’re to take the wrongs we listed in our Fourth Step and share them with God, ourselves, and another person. We may look for an easier, softer way. But Step Five stops […]
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When you want to be something, it means you really love it. —Andy Warhol… At times, we turned to chemicals because we couldn’t love ourselves. Our addiction gave a promise of relief, but it gave us self-hate. We wanted to love, but couldn’t. What is it we really love ? Where should we put out […]
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I’m as pure as the driven slush. —Tallulad Bankhead— The Steps are filled with words and phrases like shortcomings, exact nature of our wrongs, persons we had harmed, and when we were wrong. The Steps help us accept all parts of who we are. Our program asks us to share these parts of ourselves with […]
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Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. —Hugh Prather— Before recovery, we saw only a blurry picture of ourselves, like we were looking through an out-of-focus camera lens. We couldn’t see the good in ourselves because we wouldn’t look close enough. Step Four helps us look more closely. We see […]
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I noticed my hopelessness was because I had lost my freedom of choice. —AA member— By doing a Fourth Step, we start to see ourselves more clearly. We see how we’ve acted against ourselves. Soon, we hear a little voice inside telling us to stop before we act. “Are you sure you want to say […]
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Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold. —Maurice Setter— Silver shines as bright as gold does. So often we forget this. So often we push, push, push. We forget to live for the moment. Trying too hard can be a defect of character. It can be a way we avoid life. […]
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You’re never to old to grow up. —Shirley Conran— Some of us have spent many years trying not to grow up. As children, we watched the adults around us. They may not have seemed happy. “Is life all hard work for grown-ups?” We wondered. No, it’s not hard work. There are lots of good things […]