Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-31-2014, 10:48 AM
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March 31
"If I am in pain, it may be...
March 31
"If I am in pain, it may be beneficial to me if I am aware of those in even more pain ... The answer for my pain is in the Twelfth Step."
New York, N.Y., October 2006
"Gruff Love" ...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-31-2014, 10:46 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 30
"It was at my home group that I...
March 30
"It was at my home group that I learned to trust the experiences of the early groups with meetings. We have a Traditions meeting once a month and when I was new and heard the Traditions...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-29-2014, 02:12 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 29
"Until I was at my complete bottom,...
March 29
"Until I was at my complete bottom, alcohol wasn't even my problem. But thankfully, when I did hit bottom, AA was not hard to find."
November 2013
"Why Not Tell the World?"
AA...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-29-2014, 02:09 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 28
"One of the first insights Dr....
March 28
"One of the first insights Dr. Bob and I shared was that all true communication must be founded on mutual need. Never could we talk down to anyone, certainly not to a fellow alcoholic....
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-27-2014, 06:01 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 27
"When we early AAs got our first...
March 27
"When we early AAs got our first glimmer of how spiritually prideful we could be, we coined this expression: 'Don't try to get too damned good by Thursday!'"
Best of Bill
AA...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-26-2014, 08:14 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 26
"As AA grows, it is impossible to...
March 26
"As AA grows, it is impossible to know everyone, but if I try to relate myself with just one other person, something will happen, something remarkable."
Marietta, Ohio, April 1993...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-25-2014, 02:07 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 25
"I'm better able to love people...
March 25
"I'm better able to love people when the storm of my judgmental mind settles, when I understand and empathize rather than criticize and condemn."
September 2008
"The Fine Art of...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-24-2014, 02:44 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 24
"My emotional bottom came in...
March 24
"My emotional bottom came in sobriety ... I actually had to sit and feel all those feelings I had worked so hard to drown out with alcohol."
Beginners' Book
New York, N.Y.,...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-23-2014, 03:25 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 23
"I can't imagine anything that...
March 23
"I can't imagine anything that would make me so mad, glad, or sad that I would want to go back to what I was before AA."
Napa, Calif., February 1993
"The Meaning of Success"
AA...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-22-2014, 03:38 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 22
"In AA, we discover that it is...
March 22
"In AA, we discover that it is impossible to give without receiving, or receive without giving."
North Hollywood, Calif., February 1993
"The Gift of Sobriety"
AA Grapevine
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-21-2014, 05:02 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 21
"We are losing all fear of those...
March 21
"We are losing all fear of those violent emotional storms which sometimes cross our alcoholic world; perhaps it bespeaks our confidence that every storm will be followed by a calm; a...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-20-2014, 11:49 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 20
"If you haven't been to a meeting...
March 20
"If you haven't been to a meeting for a while, come, and add to the mix ... we need you. Come for yourself, come for the Fellowship, come to celebrate sobriety, and come for the...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-19-2014, 04:02 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 19
"New people are the lifeblood of...
March 19
"New people are the lifeblood of AA. I am eternally grateful to them. By extension I am, therefore, grateful to Tradition Three for making it possible for all who want what we have to...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-18-2014, 05:12 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 18
"Pain is one of our greatest...
March 18
"Pain is one of our greatest teachers. Though I still find it difficult to accept today's pain and anxiety with any degree of serenity -- as those more advanced in the spiritual life...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-18-2014, 05:06 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-18-2014, 05:03 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 16
"Life in contented sobriety seems...
March 16
"Life in contented sobriety seems to be a matter of looking at the reality of myself in my attitudes, actions, and character rather than trying to run away from it."
Tasmania,...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-16-2014, 01:44 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 15
"Each AA has been an individual...
March 15
"Each AA has been an individual who, because of his alcoholism, could seldom govern himself. Nor could any other human being govern the alcoholic's obsession to drink, his drive to have...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-15-2014, 04:51 AM
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Replies: 30
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-13-2014, 07:39 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 13
"Because of this program I am...
March 13
"Because of this program I am starting to love myself again. I still get urges to 'drink and drug' but I don't let them run my life. I value good friends today. I value my serenity, and...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-13-2014, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 12
"Some days are harder than...
March 12
"Some days are harder than others, but I have been told a person is not measured by what she has achieved but by what she has overcome."
Toledo, Ohio, September 2008
"The Measure of...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-11-2014, 10:59 AM
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Replies: 30
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March 11
"I have come to believe that my...
March 11
"I have come to believe that my drinking insanity is only one form of the craziness to which we AAs are prone. I call it Insanity A. Insanity B is finding out what works for you -- and...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-11-2014, 10:56 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 10
"Trial and error produces group...
March 10
"Trial and error produces group experience, and out of corrected experience comes custom. When a customary way of doing things is definitely proved to be best, then that custom forms...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-09-2014, 04:15 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 9
"If there are challenges to be met...
March 9
"If there are challenges to be met today, I remember other days when what seemed impossible was made possible."
Beginners' Book
Huntington, W.V., August 2006
"Never Sober Today...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-08-2014, 06:36 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 8
"Great love is the sunlight of...
March 8
"Great love is the sunlight of AA's tree of life."
Jackson, Miss., November 1964
"Let Go and Let God"
AA Grapevine
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-07-2014, 10:54 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 7
"AA gives us a Ph.D. in life and a...
March 7
"AA gives us a Ph.D. in life and a black belt in common sense."
Beginners' Book
Keego Harbor, Mich., June 1998
"Paradoxes of Sobriety"
Beginner's Book: Getting and Staying Sober...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-06-2014, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 6
"Today, my short version of the...
March 6
"Today, my short version of the Third Step is this: Keep taking care of me, Lord, because I appreciate it now."
Berrien Springs, Mich., April 1991
"Dear God: Keep Coming Back"
AA...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-06-2014, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 5
"I still don't have answers for...
March 5
"I still don't have answers for all the eternal questions, like why bad things happen to good people, or why babies die. But I have found that life works better when I focus more on how...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-05-2014, 10:18 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-03-2014, 09:41 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 3
"Ever deepening humility,...
March 3
"Ever deepening humility, accompanied by an ever greater willingness to accept and to act upon clear obligations -- these are truly our touchstones for all growth in the life of the...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-03-2014, 09:29 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
March 2
"I started to understand that...
March 2
"I started to understand that while I didn't believe in churches, I had to see that something or someone was working in my life that hadn't been there before."
Beginners' Book
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-01-2014, 07:05 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 10,564
AA Grapevine - March 2014
March 1
"If I want to be of some use to someone (my family, my employer, my community) then I can be a leader by becoming a servant. This is one of those crazy paradoxes we find all over the AA...
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