Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-31-2017, 04:46 AM
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March 31
Choice of attention - to pay...
March 31
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-30-2017, 06:03 AM
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Replies: 30
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March 30
It's good for your heart.
"I...
March 30
It's good for your heart.
"I know I've got some emotions up, just brewing right beneath the surface," Jake said one day. "I'm edgy, irritable, and definitely not centered. But I don't...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-29-2017, 06:33 AM
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Replies: 30
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March 29
I just pictured in my mind what I...
March 29
I just pictured in my mind what I wanted to do. You can use that same formula in accomplishing anything in life.
--Ida Bellegarde
The imagination is a powerful tool. With practice we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-28-2017, 06:22 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 28
He who is swift to believe is swift...
March 28
He who is swift to believe is swift to forget.
-- Abraham Joshua Herschel
Life is full of questions. Many people tell us they have the answers. We have to be careful of who and what...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-27-2017, 06:33 AM
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Replies: 30
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March 27
Gratitude is a way of life.
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March 27
Gratitude is a way of life.
Saying thank you from the heart makes us feel full. Perhaps we don't really know we have something until we express our thanks for it.
There are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-26-2017, 06:11 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 26
The more I learn of others'...
March 26
The more I learn of others' problems, the more my own problems automatically dissolve.
--Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche
Newcomer
The second part of Step Eight says, "became willing to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-25-2017, 05:53 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 25
If you go around thinking you are...
March 25
If you go around thinking you are being cheated,
life becomes very unpleasant.
--Felix Salten
Sometimes we feel cheated that we have been given this darn disease to cope with. Why...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-24-2017, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 24
There are many ways of breaking a...
March 24
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
--Pearl S....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-23-2017, 06:20 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 23
Only those means of security are...
March 23
Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
--Machiavelli
What is our security based upon? This is a vital, bottom-line...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-22-2017, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 30
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March 22
Sharing our sobriety
We cannot...
March 22
Sharing our sobriety
We cannot give away something we don't have. And since the people closest to us forced us to see our inadequacies, our inability to love, most of us resented them....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-21-2017, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 21
Everything's got a moral, if only...
March 21
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
--Lewis Carroll
We must make many choices in our recovery. Some of these will strengthen our character, for they will be hard to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-20-2017, 07:25 AM
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Replies: 30
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March 20
When one door closes, fortune will...
March 20
When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.
-- Fernando De Rojas
Sometimes, especially in early recovery, we concentrate on our losses instead of our gains. We see a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-19-2017, 06:27 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 19
Celebrate your life and hear your...
March 19
Celebrate your life and hear your spirit sing.
-- Elisabeth L.
"What's to celebrate?" some people ask. We all get our fill of the cynics. Their negativity can weigh down our spirits....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-18-2017, 07:00 AM
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Replies: 30
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March 18
Complacency breeds old behavior and...
March 18
Complacency breeds old behavior and unnecessary problems.
"The Promises," as suggested in the Big Book, clearly indicate that we have work to do if we want the rewards that are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-17-2017, 03:13 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 17
Reflection for the Day
"Vision...
March 17
Reflection for the Day
"Vision is, I think, the ability to make good estimates," wrote Bill W., the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. "Some might feel this sort of striving to be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-16-2017, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 30
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March 16
Connection is not just about making...
March 16
Connection is not just about making time for family and friends. It's about a sense of caring for other people. It's about connecting with the human spirit even when there is no national...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-15-2017, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 15
I was 35 years old the first time I...
March 15
I was 35 years old the first time I spoke up to my mother and refused to buy into her games and manipulation. . .I didn't have to start an argument. But I could say what I wanted and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-14-2017, 06:46 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 14
Communicating
…when I finally...
March 14
Communicating
…when I finally gave up on my partner.
He believed that the love of his life, if he ever found the Right One, would fill all the gaps of his own personality. She...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-13-2017, 06:27 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 13
The past has flown away. The coming...
March 13
The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist; ours only is the present's tiny point.
--Shabistari
We are tempted to look back and to look ahead. But what we most...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-12-2017, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 12
Many of us, in trying to run away...
March 12
Many of us, in trying to run away from our essential aloneness, have abused alcohol, work, drugs, food, money, and entertainment. In spite of our frantic activity, we have continued to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-11-2017, 06:04 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 11
All of my life I've been like a...
March 11
All of my life I've been like a doubled up fist... poundin', smashin', drivin' - now I'm going to loosen these doubled up hands and touch things easy with them.
--Tennessee Williams
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-10-2017, 06:11 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 10
Asking how
Many days we are...
March 10
Asking how
Many days we are tempted to ask Why? Why did this happen to me? Why was I singled out? Why am I not a different person? But the whys lead only to clever explanations and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-09-2017, 06:30 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 9
. . . we first took to ourselves.
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March 9
. . . we first took to ourselves.
We may do something that we do not want our partner to know; perhaps something that puts us in a bad light. If we lie about it, what do we gain? Our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-08-2017, 05:46 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 8
Hope smiles on the threshold of the...
March 8
Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
At the start of this new year, we look back at what has been and we look...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-07-2017, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 7
Colors
Imagine a world in black...
March 7
Colors
Imagine a world in black and white, maybe gray. Boring, isn't it? But some of us want our emotional lives to be like that.
A friend told me about a song he played in the car...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-06-2017, 06:36 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 6
How are you doing?
How am I doing?...
March 6
How are you doing?
How am I doing?
Just as the ivy that grows on a windowsill requires water and light, our friendships need care and nourishment. We might wish that a good friend...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-05-2017, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 5
We merely need to follow our...
March 5
We merely need to follow our conscience.
Where are we going? What's the plan for our life? Most of us didn't intend to end up as we have, but here we are! And a significant number of us...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-04-2017, 06:59 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 4
Being on the tightrope is living;...
March 4
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
--Karl Wallenda
In walking a tightrope, a person has to learn to relax while going forward in a situation filled with...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-03-2017, 05:53 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 3
The mind is a baby giant who, more...
March 3
The mind is a baby giant who, more provident in the cradle than he knows, has hurled his paths in life all round ahead of him, like playthings....
--Robert Frost
Sometimes we are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-02-2017, 06:21 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
March 2
A.A. Thought for the Day
We...
March 2
A.A. Thought for the Day
We used to run people down all the time. We realize now that it was because we wanted unconsciously to build ourselves up. We were envious of people who lived...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-01-2017, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,083
Today's Thought - March
March 1
Unselfishness
Dear Lord,
I must continually work toward unselfishness.
To be unselfish is to be useful.
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