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Living well is the best revenge. —Anonymous— Because we’re human, and thus imperfect beings, we’ll often be less than serene. In fact, tension and upset may commonly characterize us. However, the anger and resentment we too frequently feel towards others generally causes the greatest harm to our own lives. Although we may wish ill to […]
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The way of A.A. is the way of sobriety, fellowship, service and faith. Let us take up each one of these things and see if our feet are truly on the way. The first and greatest to us is sobriety. The others are built on sobriety as a foundation. We could not have the others […]
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost by minute, day by day, in all the thousands, small, uncaring ways. —Stephen V. Benet— Our Twelve Step program promises us a new way of life. But most of us won’t just wake up one day with a new attitude. We only gain this new way […]
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THE PERILS OF THE LIMELIGHT In the beginning, the press could not understand our refusal of all personal publicity. They were genuinely baffled by our insistence upon anonymity. Then they got the point. Here was something rare in the world — a society which said it wished to publicize its principles and its work, but […]
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Limited expectations yield only limited results. —Susan Laurson Willig— Schoolchildren perform according to the expectations their teachers have of them. Likewise, what we women achieve depends greatly on what we believe about ourselves, and too many of us have too little belief in ourselves. Perhaps we grew up in a negative household or had a […]
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We are all held in place by the pressure of the crowd around us. We must all lean upon others. Let us see that we lean gracefully and freely and acknowledge their support. —Margaret Collier Graham— We did not come into this world alone. And our voyage through this life is in concert with many […]
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Love is the reward of love. —Johann Von Schiller— When we used alcohol and other drugs, we shared little as possible. There was little love in our hearts. We had become selfish. This caused us to be lonely. Then something happened to change all of that. Remember the first time you walked into a meeting? […]
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Continuing our thoughts about the rewards that have come to us as a result of our new way of living: We have found that we have got rid of many of our fears, resentments, inferiority complexes, negative points of view, self-centeredness, inner conflicts, the habits of procrastination, undisciplined sex, wasting money, boredom, false perfectionism, and […]
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THE HAZARDS OF PUBLICITY People who symbolize causes and ideas fill a deep human need. We of A.A. do not question that. But we do have to soberly face the fact that being in the public eye is hazardous, especially for us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 181 As a recovered alcoholic I must […]
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It is not until our own hearts are pierced that we can begin to know the suffering. —Sarah Minturn Sedgewick— Our own painful experiences serve a worthy purpose. They make possible our understanding of another’s pain. In turn, we are able healers to one another because we have shared the experience of pain. Being present […]