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A.A. IS NOT A CURE-ALL It would be a product of false pride to claim that A.A. is a cure-all, even for alcoholism. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 285 In my early years of sobriety I was full of pride, thinking that A.A. was the only source of treatment for a good and happy life. […]
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. —Merle Shain— Pain pushes us, sometimes gently, sometimes forcefully. It pushes us to make or accept changes in our lives. We do not always welcome change. Often the change even seems to intensify the pain for a spell. But in […]
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Our own rough edges become smooth as we help a friend smooth her edges. —Sue Atchley Ebaugh— Focusing on a good point in every person we encounter today will benefit us in untold ways. It will smooth our relations with that person, inviting her to respond kindly also. It will increase our awareness of the […]
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NEW SOIL . . . NEW ROOTS Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush, will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use to destroy ourselves. AS […]
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She walks around all day quietly, but underneath it she’s electric angry energy inside a passive form. The common woman is as common as a thunderstorm. —Judy Grahn— Many people spend their days in anger and aren’t aware of it. The conditions of work and life make us angry; we feel powerless to change them, […]
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People believe in A.A. when they see it work. An actual demonstration is what convinces them. What they read in books, what they hear people say doesn’t always convince them. But when they see a real honest-to-goodness change take place in a person, a change from a drunkard to a sober, useful citizen, that’s something […]
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One meets his destiny often on the road one takes to avoid it. —French proverb— None of us, perhaps, ever thought we’d end up in recovery. But we were working at joining recovery years before we got here! Maybe recovery was our fate from the day we first took a drink or a pill. Others […]
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CULTIVATING FAITH “I don’t think we can do anything very well in this world unless we practice it. And I don’t believe we do A.A. too well unless we practice it. . . . We should practice . . . acquiring the spirit of service. We should attempt to acquire some faith, which isn’t easily […]
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Courage is fear that has said its prayers. —Karle Wilson Baker— No one of us is always courageous. With trepidation we embark on many journeys. Fear is dispelled each time we rely on our inner strength and trust that our lives are in good hands. Self-talk is powerful and will prepare us to meet whatever […]
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. —Margaret Fairless Barber— When we contemplate last month, last year, the period of time just before we came into this Twelve Step program, we can see many […]