Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-30-2017, 06:41 AM
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June 30
Gratitude is larger than life.
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June 30
Gratitude is larger than life.
One day, a friend called me on the phone. He was going through a difficult time and wondering if and when things would ever turn around and improve. I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-29-2017, 05:06 AM
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June 29
Making prompt amends is the fresh...
June 29
Making prompt amends is the fresh air of each new day.
--Sandra Little
Today brings us a new hill to climb and a new view from the top. Taking time to reflect about our daily journeys...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-28-2017, 06:04 AM
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June 28
No person is your enemy, no person...
June 28
No person is your enemy, no person is your friend, and every person is your teacher.
--Florence Scovel Shinn
We can open ourselves to opportunities today. They abound in our lives. No...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-27-2017, 05:21 AM
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June 27
Of all sad words of tongue or pen,...
June 27
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been."
--John Greenleaf Whittier
Unless we live in the now, we are in danger of suffering the agony of regret....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-26-2017, 06:04 AM
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June 26
Whatever you can do or dream you can...
June 26
Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Newcomer
I signed up to take a course in something I'm kind of interested in. I'm pretty anxious...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-25-2017, 05:17 AM
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June 25
The cost of a thing is the amount of...
June 25
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life, which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
--Henry David Thoreau
Consider the young man who...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-24-2017, 05:54 AM
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June 24
Practice being spontaneous. Practice...
June 24
Practice being spontaneous. Practice having fun.
The joy of recovery is that we finally get to experiment. We get to learn new behaviors, and we don't have to do them perfectly. We only...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-23-2017, 06:00 AM
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June 23
You can make more friends in two...
June 23
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.
--Dale Carnegie
We wanted...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-22-2017, 06:45 AM
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June 22
A house is no home unless it...
June 22
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...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-21-2017, 06:07 AM
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June 21
Real friends are those who, when...
June 21
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
--Erwin T. Randall
What kind of friends do we have? Are they people who...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-20-2017, 05:47 AM
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June 20
A.A. Thought for the Day
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June 20
A.A. Thought for the Day
Sometimes we can't help thinking, Why can't we ever drink again? The answer is that at some time in our drinking careers, we passed what is called our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-19-2017, 05:20 AM
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June 19
A spiritual life is natural
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June 19
A spiritual life is natural
Conscious Contact. Coming into what is clearly a spiritual program, we may have been fearful that our own unworthiness would hold us back. We may have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-18-2017, 06:26 AM
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June 18
Love at first sight is easy to...
June 18
Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle.
--Sam Levenson
True intimacy introduces us to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-17-2017, 06:39 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-16-2017, 06:09 AM
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June 16
I am responsible for myself, my...
June 16
I am responsible for myself, my recovery, my well-being, my happiness. All these things are, ultimately, my own responsibility.
--Anonymous
Our Higher Power does not lay claim to our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-15-2017, 06:26 AM
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June 15
It takes about ten years to get used...
June 15
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.
--Unknown
If it is hard to adjust to our age, how much harder it must be to realize we can't even run our own life with any...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-14-2017, 05:57 AM
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June 14
Change in all things is sweet.
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June 14
Change in all things is sweet.
-- Aristotle
Newcomer
I don't know why I'm still going through such emotional ups and downs at this point. I'm not in withdrawal, my body chemistry is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-13-2017, 05:25 AM
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June 13
The most wasted of all days is one...
June 13
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
--E. E. Cummings
One of the true gifts of recovery is that we learn to laugh again. No matter how beat up our spirits have been by...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-12-2017, 06:31 AM
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June 12
Love doesn't just sit there like a...
June 12
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread - re-made all the time, made new.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
We love to be loved; we love to be held; we love to be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-11-2017, 05:51 AM
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June 11
At first, I resented it when my...
June 11
At first, I resented it when my friends in the program told me to be God or let God.
-- Myrna K.
Who consciously decided to play God? Not me. Not you. But many of us have a terrible...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-10-2017, 07:15 AM
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June 10
There is an end to grief if we have...
June 10
There is an end to grief if we have the courage to accept our personal goodness and our ongoing right to happiness.
-- Justin Langley
Making peace with our losses takes time and trust....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-09-2017, 02:50 AM
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June 9
An intimate truth is also a universal...
June 9
An intimate truth is also a universal truth.
--John Cournos
Truth is often associated primarily with the larger issues and set alongside such ideals as Justice, Freedom, and Democracy....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-08-2017, 06:19 AM
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June 8
We do not have to get caught in the...
June 8
We do not have to get caught in the middle of other people's issues.
-- Melody Beattie
Learning to respect boundaries, our own and other people's, eliminates much of the stress that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-07-2017, 06:03 AM
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June 7
Problems are opportunities for...
June 7
Problems are opportunities for stretching our minds.
Wringing our hands over circumstances gone awry wastes our energy. In any twenty-four hours we will experience many situations that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-06-2017, 06:56 AM
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June 6
Reflection for the Day
One of...
June 6
Reflection for the Day
One of the best ways to get out of the self-pity trap is to do some "instant bookkeeping." For every entry of misery on the debit side of our ledger, we can surely...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-05-2017, 05:55 AM
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June 5
Don't miss out on today's learning...
June 5
Don't miss out on today's learning experiences.
They won't come again. We will never have another day exactly like today, so let's take advantage of the lessons we're offered.
We...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-04-2017, 07:01 AM
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June 4
Without discipline, there's no life...
June 4
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
--Katharine Hepburn
We all have deadlines we must meet. We have bills to pay, responsibilities at work, children with school projects - all...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-03-2017, 06:47 AM
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June 3
Depression and Despair
Do we go...
June 3
Depression and Despair
Do we go about our daily work dutifully but joylessly? Have we settled for less in our jobs, homes, or relationships than we want? Have we substituted financial...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-02-2017, 06:20 AM
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June 2
The ego is a self-justifying...
June 2
The ego is a self-justifying historian, which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-01-2017, 06:51 AM
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Today's Thought - June
June 1
Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
--Bulgarian proverb
Through laziness or inattention, we often miss opportunities to grow. Maybe we don't play our hunches or...
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