Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-31-2015, 08:41 AM
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March 31
Whatever you may be sure of, be...
March 31
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, you are dreadfully like other people.
-- James Russell Lowell
Sharing our many experiences with our friends in Twelve Step meetings helps...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-30-2015, 08:47 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 30
I usually just lived one day at a...
March 30
I usually just lived one day at a time. I never had a sense of where I was going.
--Ruth Casey
Did any of us really know where we were going? We probably spent many hours, days, weeks...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-29-2015, 07:57 AM
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Replies: 30
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March 29
I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And...
March 29
I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And never a word said she;
But, Oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me!
-- Robert Browning Hamilton
We may think that forgetting...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-28-2015, 07:43 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 28
People-Pleasing
For some of...
March 28
People-Pleasing
For some of us, people-pleasing has become a way of getting our needs and wants met. But people-pleasing is manipulative and condescending. And it cheats us. When we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-27-2015, 08:53 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 27
We admitted we were powerless over...
March 27
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
--Step One of Alcoholics Anonymous
Accepting powerlessness is a prerequisite of recovery. As adult...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-26-2015, 07:57 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 26
Everyone has his own fingerprints....
March 26
Everyone has his own fingerprints. The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-25-2015, 09:22 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 25
In wildness is the preservation of...
March 25
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature confronts us with its beauty in a flower or a furry animal. The awesomeness of nature is in a lightning bolt...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-24-2015, 07:11 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 24
Fantasies are more than substitutes...
March 24
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
--Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-23-2015, 09:34 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 23
Embracing virtues and new attitudes...
March 23
Embracing virtues and new attitudes
Because of our addiction, our actions (and inaction) have fostered cynicism, futility, and distrust. How could we ever have hoped to succeed with...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-22-2015, 08:48 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 22
I play while I work and I work...
March 22
I play while I work and I work while I sleep. I depend on the functioning of my subconscious imagination to do my work.
--Edith Shannon
Our minds are never at rest. It's rather nice...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-21-2015, 08:36 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 21
Even if you understand and follow...
March 21
Even if you understand and follow all of the rules for more effectively engaging manipulators, life with them is not likely to be easy.
--George K. Simon Jr.
Sometimes they want...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-20-2015, 08:07 AM
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Replies: 30
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-19-2015, 09:32 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 19
It's an esteemable act to stop and...
March 19
It's an esteemable act to stop and smell the roses.
For years I diligently and faithfully read my daily meditations. I worked them into my routine activities, just as I shower, brush...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-18-2015, 07:14 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 18
Music drives the devil away. ...
March 18
Music drives the devil away.
--Martin Luther
How many times have we seen a movie and liked the music so much we went out and bought the sound track? It may have been classical music...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-17-2015, 09:01 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 17
In real love you want the other...
March 17
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
--Margaret Anderson
The expression of real love is so easy between grandparents and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-16-2015, 08:02 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 16
Say when it's time to do that...
March 16
Say when it's time to do that difficult thing.
Sometimes, true windows of opportunity open in our lives. We get a chance to make that amend. The perfect time to end or resolve that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-15-2015, 09:00 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 15
What we lack are not scientists but...
March 15
What we lack are not scientists but poets and people to reveal to the heart what the heart is ready to receive.
--Joseph Campbell
A short time ago, a friend handed me the following...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-14-2015, 07:46 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 14
You will forget your misery; you...
March 14
You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
-- Job 11:16
Many of us have painful memories we carry with us like pictures in a wallet. We keep...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-13-2015, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 13
I have a new philosophy. I'm only...
March 13
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
--Charles Schulz
Living one day at a time is a big project. Most of us have just enough faith, patience, and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-12-2015, 09:09 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 12
When we lose God, it is not God who...
March 12
When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.
--Anonymous
At times any of us can fall into the trap of trying to make deals with God. The thought seems to be, if I can make a deal with...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-11-2015, 08:33 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 11
People who lean on logic and...
March 11
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
-- W. B. Yeats
It's a bitter pill to swallow, but our intelligence only gets...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-10-2015, 07:42 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 10
Accepting Love
Many of us have...
March 10
Accepting Love
Many of us have worked too hard to make relationships work; sometimes those relationships didn't have a chance because the other person was unavailable or refused to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-09-2015, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 9
Reflection for the Day
When I...
March 9
Reflection for the Day
When I sit quietly and compare my life today with the way it used to be, the difference is almost beyond belief. But things aren't always rosy; some days are a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-08-2015, 08:54 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 8
Some of the experiences we go...
March 8
Some of the experiences we go through are hard. We get heavy at times.
"I'm drowning in my grief," I told a friend after my son died. "It feels like I'm swimming across an ocean, and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-07-2015, 08:01 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 7
Every new moment that arises in your...
March 7
Every new moment that arises in your life can now be a point of choice. . .in which you can choose to treat yourself and others with Compassion rather than Judgment.
--David Harp
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-06-2015, 07:24 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 6
When you do something you are proud...
March 6
When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it.
--Mildred Newman
Each one of us is very good at something. Maybe it's baseball or tennis where we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-05-2015, 10:08 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 5
I was talking to a friend about...
March 5
I was talking to a friend about something I didn't want to do but believed I needed to do anyway. I was dreading it and feeling irritable. Often when we talk like that, other people scowl...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-04-2015, 07:34 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 4
G.O.D. = Good Orderly Direction ...
March 4
G.O.D. = Good Orderly Direction
--Anonymous
When we decided to turn our will and lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him, we made a declaration of independence. We declared...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-03-2015, 08:07 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 3
The first skill needed for the Inner...
March 3
The first skill needed for the Inner Game is called "letting it happen." This means gradually building a trust in the innate ability of your body to learn and to perform.
--W. Timothy...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-02-2015, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
March 2
Love doesn't just sit there like a...
March 2
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone: it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
Everyone could use a new batch of love every day. Way too...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-01-2015, 08:24 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,892
Today's Thought - March
March 1
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Newcomer
Initially, I was excited about recovery. I felt better for a while. I hate to say...
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