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Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend. — Hebrew Proverb— In recovery we take our worst enemy, addiction, and turn it around. We were ashamed of our addiction. Over time we become proud of our recovery. We were our own worst enemy. Now we’re our own best friend. We […]
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FAMILY OBLIGATIONS . . . a spiritual life which does not include . . . family obligations may not be so perfect after all. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 129 I can be doing great in the program–applying it at meetings, at work, and in service activities–and find that things have gone to pieces at home. I […]
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The mind is a baby giant who, more provident in the cradle than he knows, and hurled his paths in life all round him, like playthings… . —Robert Frost— Sometimes we are bewildered by the options open to us. We feel we have no way of knowing which course would be best. But when we […]
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My lifetime listens to yours. —Muriel Rukeyser— Our experiences educate us to help show each other the way. Others’ experiences, likewise, will help still others. We need to share our histories. And the program offers us the way. There is no greater honor we can give one another than rapt attention. We each want to […]
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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 […]