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Speak kindly today; when tomorrow comes you will be in practice. —Anonymous— Behavior is habitual: we thoughtlessly brush our teeth, set our alarm clock, start our car, or dress in order . We create rituals in our lives, and they free us from thousands of small decisions, leaving our minds less cluttered for the more […]
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All alcoholics have personality problems. They drink to escape from life, to counteract feelings of loneliness or inferiority, or because of some emotional conflict within them, so that they cannot adjust themselves to life. Alcoholics cannot stop drinking unless they find a way to solve their personality problems. That’s why going on the wagon doesn’t […]
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. —Chinese proverb— We’re going down a new-road—in our recovery and in our lives. We don’t know the road. We only know we’re on the right one, because our Higher Power led us here. We ask for help from those who already know the road. We ask […]
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It was not so much that they drifted, as that in the presence of a boat the world drifted, forgot. The dreamed-about changed places with the dreamer. — Eudora Welty— Dreams can be so potent and mysterious that many of us, at one time or another, have felt that they put us in touch with […]
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A LIFETIME PROCESS We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other people. . […]
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💐 Good morning Fabulous, Fear Facing, Courageous, Talented Beauty and Wonderful friend ❗ 😍💃🌅… Here is a hand to help you out of bed this wonderful morning…🛌👏… And a big BRIGHT SMILE TOO….😀💗…We can get so lost in the maze up in our minds, confusion about the past, anxiety about the future… 😖😵… We start […]
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. —Jennie Jerome Churchill— Taking our friends and loved ones for granted, expecting perfection from them in every instance, greatly lessens the value we have in one another’s life. Being hard on those closest to us may relieve some of the […]
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If you would be loved, love and be lovable. —Benjamin Franklin— We all desire to be loved. Our common human characteristic is our need to count in someone else’s life. At least one other person needs us, we tell ourselves, when we feel least able to accept life’s demands. How alike we all are. The […]
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People often ask what makes the A.A. program work. One of the answers is that A.A. works because it gets people away from themselves as the center of the universe. And it teaches them to rely more on the fellowship of others and on strength from God. Forgetting ourselves in fellowship, prayer, and working with […]
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I came to the conclusion then that “continual mindfulness”. . . must mean, not a sergeant-major-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to look and readiness to accept whatever came. —Joanna Field— Resistance to the events, the situations, the many people who come into our lives blocks the growth we are offered every day. […]