Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-31-2017, 04:15 AM
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July 31
Attitudes and Limitations
To a...
July 31
Attitudes and Limitations
To a large extent, the way we think determines who we are and what happens to us.
We cannot harbor poisonous thoughts without their effects visibly showing...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-30-2017, 05:08 AM
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July 30
As he thinketh in his heart, so is...
July 30
As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
--Proverbs 23:7
How we view our circumstances directly affects how we feel about them. Being in debt can cause us to cast dark shadows over our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-29-2017, 05:57 AM
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July 29
If the only tool you have is a...
July 29
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow
When we can take a long view of our problems, we can sometimes see that we're using...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-28-2017, 04:40 AM
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July 28
I find it awfully hard to give...
July 28
I find it awfully hard to give myself a break. I don't know where that attitude comes from.
--Walker I.
"I can't. I shouldn't. It's my fault." These self-abasing and self-defeating...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-27-2017, 05:35 AM
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July 27
. . . what we want more deeply than...
July 27
. . . what we want more deeply than winning.
When our relationship is in conflict, we may think that our partner always has the last word. We think it would feel good, just once, to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-26-2017, 05:43 AM
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July 26
Some days I feel like a tightrope...
July 26
Some days I feel like a tightrope walker.
- Jeannette N.
We all perform a balancing act, trying to keep perspective on what's important and what is not. Sometimes we fall - crazy...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-25-2017, 04:20 AM
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July 25
No matter what faces us - an unhappy...
July 25
No matter what faces us - an unhappy relationship, a serious operation or illness, a feeling of uselessness or helplessness - it is vital to realize that there is a solution.
We must...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-24-2017, 05:37 AM
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July 24
The doors we open and close each day...
July 24
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
-- Flora Whittemore
We often hear the phrase, "When one door shuts, another opens." It means everything has a beginning...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-23-2017, 05:41 AM
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July 23
Ousting the Green Demon
Victory...
July 23
Ousting the Green Demon
Victory over Jealousy. We hear of successful people who drop their old friends after moving up the ladder. Maybe, however, it wasn't their choice. Maybe they...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-22-2017, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 22
Relying on God has to begin all over...
July 22
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
--C. S. Lewis
We often try to turn our will and our life over to the care of God, as we understand...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-21-2017, 05:27 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 21
One faces the future with one's...
July 21
One faces the future with one's past.
-Pearl S. Buck
We are never divorced from our past. We are in company with it forever, and it acquaints us with the present. Our responses today...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-20-2017, 04:38 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 20
Better Relationships
I pray for...
July 20
Better Relationships
I pray for the opportunity to form better relationships now that I am in recovery.
The Program has revealed a need to completely overhaul my attitudes about...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-19-2017, 04:55 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 19
One comes, finally, to believe...
July 19
One comes, finally, to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement is true or false.
--Napoleon Hill
Our inner dialogue can have awesome power. It often...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-18-2017, 06:21 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 18
More important than learning how to...
July 18
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. Before going to sleep at night, empty your consciousness of unwanted...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-17-2017, 05:15 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 17
The Milkmaid and Her Pail
A...
July 17
The Milkmaid and Her Pail
A milkmaid walked to the village with a pail of milk balanced on her head. She began to think about what she would do with the money she would make when the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-16-2017, 05:20 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 16
If you're never scared or...
July 16
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
--Julia Soul
Do we avoid making new friends because we're scared they won't like us? Do we get...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-15-2017, 06:22 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 15
God insists that we ask, not because...
July 15
God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.
-- Catherine Marshall
An omniscient God must know what we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-14-2017, 06:19 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 14
Meditation
The first time I...
July 14
Meditation
The first time I heard about meditation, it sounded like a foreign concept to me. I could understand prayer - that was talking to God. It made sense. But people said...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-13-2017, 06:22 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 13
I shall tell you a great secret, my...
July 13
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
--Albert Camus
"Later." How often have we said this? This trick helps us avoid...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-12-2017, 06:05 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 12
Harmony
Did you ever go to a...
July 12
Harmony
Did you ever go to a concert? The musicians all play the same song, but each one has a different part in creating the music. Whether they're creating somber minor chords or...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-11-2017, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 11
The secret of success is constancy...
July 11
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
--Benjamin Disraeli
In Twelve Step meetings, we don't talk about counseling, treatment centers, or non-program reading. Many of us have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-10-2017, 05:49 AM
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July 10
As we think, so we become.
We...
July 10
As we think, so we become.
We can enrich our interior monologue. We can seek the company of people who inspire us with a loving approach to life. We can absorb the written thoughts of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-09-2017, 06:19 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,672
July 9
Being humiliated is not the same as...
July 9
Being humiliated is not the same as having humility.
We have all suffered humiliation. Perhaps a spouse ridiculed us in public or a parent's disorderly conduct shamed us in front of our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-08-2017, 06:18 AM
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Views: 4,672
July 8
Limited expectations yield only...
July 8
Limited expectations yield only limited results.
- Susan Laurson Willig
Our thoughts determine our actions, and when our thoughts are negative, our successes are few. What we hold in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-07-2017, 06:12 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,672
July 7
He has the right to criticize who has...
July 7
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Our negative judgments of others very frequently inform us of our own shortcomings. In other words, what we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-06-2017, 06:06 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,672
July 6
My parents believed in honesty and...
July 6
My parents believed in honesty and hard work and they passed that on to me.
--Monty Cralley
Most of us can think of a number of things we can credit our parents with. For some of us...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-05-2017, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 30
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July 5
Sought through prayer and meditation...
July 5
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
--Step...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-04-2017, 05:25 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,672
July 4
Recovery sets us free.
Freedom...
July 4
Recovery sets us free.
Freedom is what recovery is all about. Not only are we free from addictive behavior, but we are free to become who we are and enjoy all that life has to offer. We...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-03-2017, 06:23 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,672
July 3
Love is the ability and willingness...
July 3
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
--Dr. Wayne Dyer
It's generally...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-02-2017, 06:24 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,672
July 2
Procrastination
Higher Power, it...
July 2
Procrastination
Higher Power, it was so easy to put things off during my addiction.
I pray to remember that postponing facing up to reality is really self-pity in action. When I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
07-01-2017, 05:50 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,672
Today's Thought - July
July 1
Pray to God, row to shore.
-- Anonymous
The sign in the antique store showed a fisherman in a rowboat being tossed about in a storm. The message was clear: the fisherman may have great...
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