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It should be impossible that anything should be produced if there was nothing existing before. —Aristotle— Everything comes from something. All the organic compounds in the world come from four elements; carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. From these simple ingredients have developed the marvelous chains of self-replicating proteins that fill the planet with jungles, gardens, […]
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Keep it Simple… It’s only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.—Henry David Thoreau— The biggest danger we face as recovering people is self-will. Do we try to control others? Do we always put ourselves before others? Are we full of self-pity? These are all ways that bind us to our self-will. In […]
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As the wheel of the decades turns, so do a person’s needs, desires, and tasks. Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of “deals” or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations. —Maggie Scarf— What life has measured […]
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The absence of love in our lives is what makes them seem raw and unfinished. —Ingrid Bengis— Love expressed softens the harsh cutting edge of any experience. Whether we’re the recipients of love or the giver, we still share the promised rewards, the greatest of which is the knowledge that we belong, that others know […]
Daily Reflections <!--052625-->
TURNING NEGATIVE TO POSITIVE Our spiritual and emotional growth in A.A. does not depend so deeply upon success as it does upon our failures and setbacks. If you will bear this in mind. I think that your slip will have the effect of kicking you upstairs, instead of down. AS BILL SEES IT , p. […]
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When I look at the future, it’s so bright, it burns my eyes. —Oprah Winfrey— During our illness, it was as if our spirit lived in a deep, dark cave. Our spirit became gloomy, cold, and lonely. Our spirit didn’t know how to get out of the cave. We were dying. Recovery brings us into […]
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Out of every crisis comes the chance to be reborn, to re-conceive ourselves as individuals, to choose the kind of change that will help us to grow and to fulfill ourselves more completely. —Nena O’Neill— Before choosing to recover, most of us lived through crisis after crisis. Many days we sought the oblivion of alcohol […]
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In twelfth-step work, the fourth thing is conversion. Conversion means change. Prospects must learn to change their way of thinking. Until now, everything they’ve done has been connected with drinking. Now they must face a new kind of life, without liquor. They must see and admit that they cannot overcome drinking by their own willpower, […]
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In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. —Virginia Satir— Let’s keep this in mind: each of us is special in our own way. Often, we’re hard on ourselves because we’re different. Our Twelve Step groups pull our differences together. We listen and learn from our differences. We learn to see […]
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One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness–simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain. —George Sand— We are as happy as […]