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I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and non-possession. —Monique Wittig— New relationships require new names. If we want to stop behaving in a customary way—as an adversary, as a victim, as a bully, as a martyr—then we need new words to describe our behavior. Perhaps we glimpse the new relationship to power—that one […]
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Life is patchwork–here and there, scraps of pleasure and despair. Joined together, hit or miss. —Anne Bronaugh— As you look ahead, to this day, you can count on unexpected experiences. You can count on moments of laughter. And you can count on twinges of fear. Life is seldom what we expect, but we can trust […]
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AN INSIDE LOOK We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves. By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 43 Today I […]
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To make the world a friendly place One must show it a friendly face. —James Whitcomb Riley— We are beginning to learn that we get what we expect. Why? If we believe that people are out to get us, we’ll not treat them well. We will think it’s okay to “get them” before they “get […]
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💐Hello to YOU❗…😍🙋…You are such a Remarkable, Strong, Resemblance of your inner Spirit…😇🦋💖…Some women spend a lifetime and never even realize this wonderful FACT…🤔✨…WE however, have been given a beautiful opportunity, a calling if you will…🗣🎁🙇♀️…Where we can hear our Spirit guiding us to a BETTER way of doing things. A remarkable way of living […]
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A WIDE ARC OF GRATITUDE And, speaking for Dr. Bob and myself, I gratefully declare that had it not been for our wives, Anne and Lois, neither of us could have lived to see A.A.’s beginning. THE A.A. WAY OF LIFE, p. 67 Am I capable of such generous tribute and gratitude to my wife, […]
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It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision. —Barbara Ward— A sense of vision, seeing who we can dare to be and what we can dare to accomplish, is possible if […]
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In A.A. alcoholics find a way to solve their personality problems. They do this by recovering three things. First, they recover their personal integrity. They pull themselves together. They get honest with themselves and with other people. They face themselves and their problems honestly, instead of running away. They take a personal inventory of themselves […]
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Speak kindly today; when tomorrow comes you will be in practice. —Anonymous— Behavior is habitual: we thoughtlessly brush our teeth, set our alarm clock, start our car, or dress in order . We create rituals in our lives, and they free us from thousands of small decisions, leaving our minds less cluttered for the more […]
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All alcoholics have personality problems. They drink to escape from life, to counteract feelings of loneliness or inferiority, or because of some emotional conflict within them, so that they cannot adjust themselves to life. Alcoholics cannot stop drinking unless they find a way to solve their personality problems. That’s why going on the wagon doesn’t […]