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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. —Sir Thomas Browne— Faults, when their closely examined, often turn out to be the other end of virtues. Carelessness in one situation might be generosity in another; secretiveness might turn out to be an expression of tact. In most of us, positive and negative […]
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A LIST OF BLESSINGS One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings. . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37 What did I have to be grateful for? I shut myself up and started listing the blessings for which I was in no way responsible, beginning with […]
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Be not afraid of growing, slowing, be afraid only of standing still. —Chinese proverb— All of us are a little afraid of growth. We wonder how growth will change our lives. Who will we be? Will our friend still love us? Can’t we grow up and get it over with? Why does it take so […]
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. —George Eliot— Changing cities, countries, jobs, or partners can’t change what we are; that change only comes from within us, From deep searching and redirection of our values and behaviors. Yet many of us blithly hope that […]
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And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. —Matt. 15:14— The Twelve Step programs are sometime called self-help programs. But they’re not really, because we all help each other. We don’t stay sober by ourselves. Sometimes we call Twelve Step programs peer programs. And they are. All of us equal. […]
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ONE DAY AT A TIME Above all, take it one day at a time. AS BILL SEES IT, p.11 Why do I kid myself that I must stay away from a drink for only one day, when I know perfectly well I must never drink again as long as I live? I am not kidding […]
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It only takes one person to change your life–you. —Ruth Casey— Change is not easy, but it’s absolutely unavoidable. Doors will close. Barriers will surface. Frustrations will mount. Nothing stays the same forever, and it’s such folly to wish otherwise. Growth accompanies positive change; determining to risk the outcome resulting from a changed behavior or […]
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If we get up in a meeting and tell something about ourselves in order to help the other person, we feel a whole lot better. It’s the old law of the more you give the more you get. Witnessing and confession are part of keeping sober. You never know when you may help somebody. Helping […]
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Everything’s got a moral, if you can only find it. —Lewis Caroll— To say that life is full of meaning is not to say that meaning is fixed or magical. Signs come to us from within, not from outside; The morals we can draw from the little dramas in our lives have to do with […]
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Fellowship is a big part of staying sober. The doctors call it group therapy. We never go to an A.A. meeting without taking something out of it. Sometimes we don’t feel like going to a meeting and we think of excuses for not going. But we usually end up by going anyway and we always […]