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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. —Marcus Aurelius— The struggles of life teach us a lot. They challenge our beliefs. As we struggle, we come to believe that our friends, family, and Higher Power will be there for us in hard times. But we must do our part. We need to […]
Daily Reflections <!--051925-->
GIVING WITHOUT STRINGS And he well knows that his own life has been made richer, as an extra dividend of giving to another without any demand for a return. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 69 The concept of giving without strings was hard to understand when I first came into the program. I was suspicious […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--051925-->
. . . if we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false, so soon as one has got used to not suffering, one wants something else. —Simone Weil— Perhaps it’s the human condition never to be satisfied […]
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You cannot plan the future by the past. —Edmund Burke— We got tried of how we were living. We honestly looked at our life. We saw that alcohol and other drugs controlled our life. We met others who understood us. And we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could help us. We […]
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. . . in order to feel anything you need strength . . . –Anna Maria Ortese— Strength for any task, to withstand any pressure, to find the solution to any problem, is always as close as our very breath. We expend all our energy, wearing ourselves down, even getting sick from worry when we […]
Thought for the Day <!--051825-->
We’re in A.A. for two main reasons: to keep sober ourselves and to help others to keep sober. It’s a well known fact that helping others is a big part of keeping sober yourself. It’s also been proved that it’s very hard to keep sober all by yourself. A lot of people have tried it […]
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FREEDOM TO BE ME If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p 83 My first true freedom is the freedom not to have to take a drink today. […]
Promise of a New Day <!--051825-->
Memory is the power to gather roses in the winter. — Anonymous— What a marvelous capacity we each have to capture and savor the bliss of past moments. They serve to comfort us while we’re enduring the pain of the present. However, it’s the present experience that has called us to attention. Within its […]
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Who cannot give good counsel? ‘Tis cheap it cost them nothing. —Robert Burton— Other people’s problem’s are so easy to solve. Isn’t it amazing how much better we are at their lives than our own? Of course, other people’s lives don’t hook us emotionally, by means of love or guilt or precious delusions. We can […]
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Loving allows us to live and through living we grow in loving. —Evelyn Mandel— Many days it seems too easy to be centered on ourselves, wondering if others love us rather than loving others. On those days, we may have to act “as if” we love the persons who live on our pathways. The unexpected […]