Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-31-2017, 05:04 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
October 31
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AA Thought for the Day
October 31
Beyond Human Aid
The alcoholic may say to himself in the most casual way, "It won’t burn me this time,
so here’s how!" Or perhaps he doesn’t think at all......
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-30-2017, 05:17 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
October 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 30
Isolation
What are we likely to receive from Step Five?
For one thing, we shall get rid of that terrible sense of isolation we've always had.
Almost without...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-29-2017, 05:46 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
October 29
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AA Thought for the Day
October 29
Spiritual Growth
The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines.
The principles we have set down are guides to progress.
We claim spiritual...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-28-2017, 06:22 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
October 28
Third...
AA Thought for the Day
October 28
Third Step
We were now at Step Three. Many of us said to our Maker, as we understood Him:
"God, I offer myself to Thee—to build with me and to do with me as...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2017, 05:32 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
October 27
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AA Thought for the Day
October 27
Promises
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development,
we will be amazed before we are half way through.
We are going to know a new freedom and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-26-2017, 05:40 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 26
New...
AA Thought for the Day
October 26
New Attitudes
If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows
nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-25-2017, 06:05 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 25
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AA Thought for the Day
October 25
Probably Alcoholic
If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking,
you have little control over the amount you take,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2017, 05:47 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 24
An...
AA Thought for the Day
October 24
An Unshakable Foundation
There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer.
Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-23-2017, 04:45 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
October 23
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AA Thought for the Day
October 23
Combating Alcoholism
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the
sick man from temptation is doomed to failure. If the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-22-2017, 04:26 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 22
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AA Thought for the Day
October 22
Willingness to Believe
Let us make haste to reassure you. We found that as soon as we were able to
lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-21-2017, 04:37 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 21
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AA Thought for the Day
October 21
Fellowship
The fellowship in AA is unique.
Ties are made overnight that it would take years to develop elsewhere.
No one needs a false front. All barriers...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-20-2017, 05:31 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 20
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AA Thought for the Day
October 20
Usefulness
Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people’s shortcomings and viewpoints
and a respect for their opinions are attitudes which make us...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-19-2017, 05:07 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 19
The...
AA Thought for the Day
October 19
The Key
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life
seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-18-2017, 04:55 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
October 18
A...
AA Thought for the Day
October 18
A Meeting
In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week
for a meeting to be attended by anyone or everyone...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-17-2017, 05:21 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 17
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AA Thought for the Day
October 17
Pyschic Change
After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon
of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2017, 04:23 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 16
The...
AA Thought for the Day
October 16
The Root
Selfishness—self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles.
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-15-2017, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 15
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AA Thought for the Day
October 15
Action
It works—it really does. We alcoholics are undisciplined.
So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined.
But this is not all....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-14-2017, 04:22 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
October 14
One...
AA Thought for the Day
October 14
One Drink
If hundreds of experiences have shown him that one drink means another debacle
with all its attendant suffering and humiliation, why is it he takes...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-13-2017, 05:58 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 13, 2017
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AA Thought for the Day
October 13, 2017
Delay and Rebellion
At the very least, we shall have to come to grips with some of our worst
character defects and take action toward their removal as...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-12-2017, 04:05 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 12
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AA Thought for the Day
October 12
Spiritual Growth
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth,
to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him.
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-11-2017, 04:53 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 11
Step...
AA Thought for the Day
October 11
Step Five
“Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."
Hence it was most evident that a solitary...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-10-2017, 06:07 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 10
The...
AA Thought for the Day
October 10
The Alcoholic
He is often perfectly sensible and well balanced concerning everything except liquor,
but in that respect he is incredibly dishonest and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-09-2017, 05:06 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 9
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AA Thought for the Day
October 9
Reliance
When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon
the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God.
Our ideas...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-08-2017, 05:03 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 8
A...
AA Thought for the Day
October 8
A Price
Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid.
It meant destruction of self-centeredness.
I must turn in all things to the Father of Light who...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-07-2017, 05:36 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 7
Real...
AA Thought for the Day
October 7
Real Alcoholic
But what about the real alcoholic? He may start off as a moderate drinker;
he may or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2017, 04:56 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 6
Reborn...
AA Thought for the Day
October 6
Reborn
More and more we became interested in seeing what we could contribute to life.
As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-05-2017, 05:35 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 5
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AA Thought for the Day
October 5
Meetings
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other,
in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-04-2017, 04:39 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 4
"Real"...
AA Thought for the Day
October 4
"Real" Sobriety
We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough.
He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-03-2017, 04:38 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
October 3
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AA Thought for the Day
October 3
Spiritual Progress First
The head of the house ought to remember that he is mainly to blame for what befell his home.
He can scarcely square the account in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2017, 04:25 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,749
AA Thought for the Day
October 2
Higher...
AA Thought for the Day
October 2
Higher Power
When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God’s hands
were better than anything we could have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2017, 06:39 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,749
AA Thoughts For Today - October
AA Thought for the Day
October 1
Instincts
We have learned that the satisfaction of instincts cannot be the sole end and aim of our lives.
If we place instincts first, we have got the cart...
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