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Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. —Dorothy Bryant— Sometimes we feel buried in sand, blocked, clogged, unable to move. Then we must remember that we are not alone. Help is […]
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Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. —Unknown— As we work Step One, we accept that alcohol and other drugs are poison to us. We accept our limits. This means we know that hanging around our using “buddies” can remind us of “the good old days.” Hanging around “slippery places” means we could “slip” back into […]
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Twenty-Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought For The Day When I came into A.A., I learned what an alcoholic was and then I applied this knowledge to myself to see if I was an alcoholic. When I was convinced that I was an alcoholic, I admitted it openly. Since then, have I been learning to […]
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…goodness cannot adopt the form of blind passions, even in the act of defense and offense, and even when it refuses to tolerate evil… —Benedetto Croce— Willful blindness can’t be good. To shut out any sight from the mind’s eye is to exclude part of life. Any action blindly taken is likely to do unintentional […]
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POWERLESS We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 21 It is no coincidence that the very first Step mentions powerlessness: An admission of personal powerlessness over alcohol is a cornerstone of the foundation of recovery. I’ve learned that I do not have the power […]
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What makes A.A. work? The first thing is to have a revulsion against myself and my way of living. Then I must admit I was helpless, that alcohol had me licked and I couldn’t do anything about it. The next thing is to honestly want to quit the old life. Then I must surrender my […]
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I believe that true identify is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. A woman can best re-find herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh… Our creative activity might mean bird watching, tennis, quilting, cooking, […]
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…our lives had become unmanageable. —Second half of Step One— The First Step tells us a lot about our addiction. We were out of control. Our addiction was in control. Addiction managed everything. It managed our relationships. It managed how we behaved with our families. As Step One says, “…our lives had become unmanageable.” But […]
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FIRST, THE FOUNDATION Is sobriety all that we can expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning. As Bill Sees It, p. 8 Practicing the A.A. program is like building a house. First I had to pour a big, thick concrete slab on which to erect the house; that, to me, […]
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“I AM A MIRACLE” The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25 This truly is […]