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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. —Harry Emerson Fosdick— Hate is like an illness. It steals our hope, our love, our relationships. Hate puts distance between people. Hate can give us a false sense of power. Do I use hate to make myself feel important? Our […]
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In A.A. we find fellowship and release and strength. And having found these things, the real reasons for our drinking are taken away. Then drinking has no more justification in our minds. We no longer need to fight against drink. Drink just naturally leaves us. At first, we are sorry that we can’t drink, but […]
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THE EASIER, SOFTER WAY If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 72 I certainly didn’t leap at the opportunity to face who I was, especially when the pains of my drinking days hung over me like a dark cloud. But I soon heard at the meetings about the […]
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. —Francis Bacon— Each day we hope for accomplishment and satisfaction, and we’ll achieve these when we scale our hopes to our real capacities. There’s no more satisfying feeling than finishing a project we’ve set up ourselves, tailored to our abilities, and worked at with […]
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When we come into A.A., looking for a way out of drinking, we really need a lot more than that. We need fellowship. We need to get the things that are troubling us out into the open. We need a new outlet for our energies and we need a new strength beyond ourselves that will […]
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THE PAST IS OVER A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them. If . . . Step Four . . . has revealed in stark relief those experiences we’d rather not remember . . . then the need to quit living […]
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. —Lydia M. Child— Our Spirit is our inner guide. And our Spirit never, never, gives us wrong directions. Because we’re […]
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You can observe a lot just by watching. —Yogi Berra— When we watch others, we learn how to “act as if.” We watch a patient person, and then we “act as if we’re a patient person. The result? Over time, we’ll become a patient person. We watch how good listeners listen, and we “act as […]
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An honest man’s the noblest work of God. — Alexander Pope— Step five says,” Admitted to God, to ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” When we did this Step, the person we admitted our wrongs to didn’t run away or reject us. That person stuck with us. Chances are, we […]
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The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult. —Mme. du Deffand— Life continually presents us with opportunities for achieving what we desire. “Only the first step is difficult.” Each time we sense the possibility of a new direction in our lives, we are being given a chance to grow. Sometimes the first step […]