Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-31-2014, 06:29 AM
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October 31
SERVICE
“Service is the rent...
October 31
SERVICE
“Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.”"
Shirley Chisholm
Midway through my first fourth step someone asked me to sponsor her. I was thrilled and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-30-2014, 07:43 AM
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October 30
Truth
“The truth that makes...
October 30
Truth
“The truth that makes men free is for the most part
the truth which men prefer not to hear.”
Herbert Agar
I spent thirty-five years of my adult life running from the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-29-2014, 07:53 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 29
Trial and Error
“Anything...
October 29
Trial and Error
“Anything worth doing at all is worth doing poorly.”
Joachim de Posada
Imagine my shock the first time I heard this statement, which happened to be in a Twelve...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-28-2014, 08:37 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 28
Home
“My home is not a...
October 28
Home
“My home is not a place, it is people.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
I’ve spent most of my adult life feeling very alone in the world. My disease of compulsive overeating...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2014, 07:43 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 27
Living in the Present
“As...
October 27
Living in the Present
“As long as you are seeking to find happiness somewhere,
you are overlooking where true happiness is.”
Gangaji
Happiness is always somewhere else, isn’t...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-26-2014, 06:32 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 9,625
October 26
Paths
“I shall be telling...
October 26
Paths
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-25-2014, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 24
Courage
“If you're going...
October 24
Courage
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
Recovery work takes great courage. Everyone who tells you differently has not explored themselves in great...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2014, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 31
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-23-2014, 06:50 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 23
Pain
“People are taught that...
October 23
Pain
“People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous ...
Pain is meant to wake us up ...
You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
Jim Morrison
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-22-2014, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 22
Scars
“Dwelling on the...
October 22
Scars
“Dwelling on the negative
simply contributes to its power.”
Shirley MacLaine
I’ve lived most of my life filled with bitterness towards people, God and myself. My mind,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-21-2014, 05:59 AM
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Replies: 31
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-20-2014, 07:25 AM
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Replies: 31
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-19-2014, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 19
Live and Let Live
“If I knew...
October 19
Live and Let Live
“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house
with the conscious design of doing me good,
I should run for my life.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-18-2014, 07:33 AM
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Replies: 31
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-17-2014, 07:23 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 17
Self-sabotage
“The truth is...
October 17
Self-sabotage
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur
when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled.
For it is only in such moments,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2014, 07:26 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 16
Fellowship
“When we honestly...
October 16
Fellowship
“When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we
often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-15-2014, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 15
Learning New Ideas
“I can't...
October 15
Learning New Ideas
“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones.”
John Cage
When I look back upon my life before I heard of food...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-14-2014, 06:31 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 14
Patience
“Patience and...
October 14
Patience
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect
before which difficulties and obstacles vanish.”
John Quincy Adams
When I first walked through the meeting doors, I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-13-2014, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 13
HONESTY
“Honesty is the...
October 13
HONESTY
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson
Throughout my ups and downs in life and in working the Steps, I have discovered the importance...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-12-2014, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 12
GRIEF
“To spare oneself from...
October 12
GRIEF
“To spare oneself from grief at all cost
can be achieved only at the price of a total detachment,
which excludes the ability to experience happiness.”
Erich Fromm
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-11-2014, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 11
FAITH
”Faith is not belief....
October 11
FAITH
”Faith is not belief. Belief is passive.
Faith is active.”
Edith Hamilton
I always believed that God could relieve my suffering if He chose; however, I was overlooking...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-10-2014, 06:41 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 10
TOLERANCE
“I have learned...
October 10
TOLERANCE
“I have learned silence from the talkative,
toleration from the intolerant, and kindness
from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful
to those teachers.”
Khalil...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-09-2014, 05:54 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 9
BALANCE SHEET
“It is amazing...
October 9
BALANCE SHEET
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if
you do not care who gets the credit.”
Harry S. Truman
Before I came to OA, I kept an emotional account of all my...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-08-2014, 07:26 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 9,625
October 8
WISDOM
“Rarely have we seen a...
October 8
WISDOM
“Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.
Those who do not recover are people who cannot
or will not completely give themselves to this simple...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2014, 09:59 PM
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Replies: 31
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2014, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 6
LONGINGS
“The great question...
October 6
LONGINGS
“The great question - which I have not been able
to answer - is, 'What does a woman want?'”
Sigmund Freud
All my life I have been searching for what I “really want”....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-05-2014, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 31
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-04-2014, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 31
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October 4
SHAME
”It is not the criminal...
October 4
SHAME
”It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess,
but the ridiculous and the shameful.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
I had a very strange childhood filled with lots...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-03-2014, 07:09 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 9,625
October 3
TRUTH
"The truth will set you...
October 3
TRUTH
"The truth will set you free,
but first it will make you miserable."
James A. Garfield
After years of therapy, I thought I knew myself fairly well. I prided myself on my...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2014, 07:27 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 9,625
October 2
COMPULSIONS
“All human...
October 2
COMPULSIONS
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:
chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
Aristotle
When I was eating compulsively, it...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2014, 06:22 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 9,625
One Day At A Time - October
October 1
The Fear of Failure
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
Seneca
I was full of excuses: “I can’t...
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