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NO ONE DENIED ME LOVE On the A.A. calendar it was Year Two . . . . A newcomer appeared at one of these groups . . . . He soon proved that his was a desperate case, and that above all he wanted to get well. . . . [He said], “Since I am […]
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Spirituality is…the awareness that survival is a savage fight between you and yourself.—Lisa S. — As recovering people, we’re getting stronger each day. We go to meetings to learn how to be better people. But we also go to remind ourselves of the beast inside us—our addiction. This beast is waiting for us to slip—to […]
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The pure relationship, how beautiful it is! How easily it is damaged, or weighted down with irrelevancies–not even irrelevancies, just life itself, the accumulations of life and of time. –Anne Morrow Lindbergh… Many of us are presently rebuilding old relationships and searching for new ones, ones that we hope we can protect. We can’t survive […]
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OUR GROUP CONSCIENCE “. . . sometimes the good is the enemy of the best.” ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 101 I think these words apply to every area of A.A.’s Three Legacies: Recovery, Unity and Service! I want them etched in my mind and life as I “trudge the Road of Happy Destiny” […]
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Before I met A.A., I was very unloving. From the time I went away to school, I paid very little attention to my mother and father, I was on my own and didn’t even bother to keep in touch with them. After I got married, I was very unappreciative of my spouse. Many a time […]
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. —William Arthur Ward— Our dreams and our aspirations are our invitations to set new goals, attempt new tasks, dare to travel uncharted courses. We each have gifts to offer our fellow-travelers, but most frequently need encouragement to […]
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. —Margaret Fuller— No matter how full our social and professional lives are, we all need a base, a place where we are at home. Whether it’s a studio apartment furnished from secondhand stores and garage […]
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s own values in the person of another. —Ayn Rand— The struggle to love one another may be a daily one for us, and it is made more difficult because we are still stumbling in our attempts at self-love.Many of us have lived our […]
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Before I met A.A. I was very dishonest. I lied to my wife constantly about where I had been and what I’d been doing. I took time off from the office and pretended I’d been sick or gave some other dishonest excuse. I was dishonest with myself, as well as with other people. I would […]
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TRUSTED SERVANTS They are servants. Theirs is the sometimes thankless privilege of doing the group’s chores. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 134 In Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis describes an encounter between his principle character and an old man busily at work planting a tree. “What is it that you are doing?” Zorba asks. […]