Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-31-2014, 07:17 AM
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January 31
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
There...
January 31
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest. - Pg. 58 - How...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-30-2014, 07:42 AM
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January 30
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
January 30
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We have no monopoly on God; we merely have an approach that worked with us. - Pg. 95 - Working With Others
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
One hour at a time...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-29-2014, 07:34 AM
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January 29
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
January 29
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We alcoholics are sensitive people. It takes some of us a long time to outgrow that serious handicap. - Pg. 125 - The Family Afterwards
Hour To Hour - Book...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-28-2014, 08:13 AM
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January 28
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We do...
January 28
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We do talk about each other a great deal, but we almost invariably temper such talk by a spirit of love and tolerance.
Another principle we observe...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-27-2014, 06:48 AM
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January 27
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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January 27
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. - Pg. 135 - The Family Afterwards
Hour To Hour - Book...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-26-2014, 07:03 AM
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January 26
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
He...
January 26
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
He will presently try the old game again, for he isn't happy about his sobriety. He cannot picture life without alcohol. Some day he will be unable to imagine...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-25-2014, 07:42 AM
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January 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When...
January 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically. - Pg.64 - How It Works
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
'Live and Let Live'...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-24-2014, 07:29 AM
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January 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
To...
January 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
To Christ I conceded the certainty of a great man, not too closely followed by those who claimed Him. His moral teachings - most excellent. For myself, I had...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-23-2014, 07:43 AM
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January 23
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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January 23
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
...for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-22-2014, 07:44 AM
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January 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When...
January 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When we see a man sinking into the mire that is alcoholism, we give him first aid and place what we have at his disposal. For his sake, we do recount and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-21-2014, 05:51 AM
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January 21
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
But...
January 21
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-20-2014, 07:25 AM
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January 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
But...
January 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly and exception, will be ABSOLUTELY UNABLE TO STOP DRINKING ON THE BASIS OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE. This is a point we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-19-2014, 12:50 AM
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January 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When...
January 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-18-2014, 12:06 AM
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January 18
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Our...
January 18
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. - Pg. 164 - A Vision For You
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-17-2014, 07:24 AM
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January 17
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It is...
January 17
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It is not the matter of giving that is in question, but when and how to give. That often makes the difference between failure and success. The minute we put...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-16-2014, 07:51 AM
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January 16
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Our...
January 16
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions. - Pg. 64 - How It Works - 3rd. and 4th. Edition
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-15-2014, 08:02 AM
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January 15
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
January 15
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We went back through our lives. Nothing counted but thoroughness and honesty. When we were finished we considered it carefully. - Pg. 65 - How It Works - 3rd....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-14-2014, 07:24 AM
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January 14
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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January 14
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Alcoholics Anonymous is not a religious organization. Neither does A.A. take any particular medical point of view, though we cooperate widely with the men of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-13-2014, 08:25 AM
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January 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
To...
January 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
To get over drinking will require a transformation of thought and attitude. We all had to place recovery above everything, for without recovery we would have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-12-2014, 07:04 AM
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January 12
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
There...
January 12
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
There is action and more action. 'Faith without works is dead.' - Pg. 88 - Into Action
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
There is a certain universality to the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-11-2014, 07:34 AM
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January 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Those...
January 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Those of us who have spent much time in the world of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the childishness of it. This dream world has been replaced by...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-10-2014, 07:11 AM
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January 10
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
January 10
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. It was so with us. - Pg. 55 - We Agnostics
Hour...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-09-2014, 08:12 AM
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January 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Having...
January 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Having persevered with the rest of the program, they wondered why they fell. We think the reason is that they never completed their housecleaning. They took...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-08-2014, 07:16 AM
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January 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
So we...
January 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
So we shall describe some of the mental states that precede a relapse into drinking, for obviously this is the crux of the problem. - Pg. 35 - More About...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-07-2014, 07:35 AM
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January 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
To...
January 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
To show other alcoholics PRECISELY HOW WE HAVE RECOVERED is the main purpose of this book. - Pg. xiii - 4th. Edition - Forward To The First Edition
Hour To...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-06-2014, 07:28 AM
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January 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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January 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Cessation of drinking is but the first step away from a highly strained, abnormal condition. A doctor said to us, 'Years of living with an alcoholic is almost...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-05-2014, 08:56 AM
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January 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In our...
January 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure. If the alcoholic tries to shield...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-04-2014, 07:54 AM
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January 4
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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January 4
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Live and let live is the rule. If you both show a willingness to remedy your own defects, there will be little need to criticize each other. - Pg. 118 - To...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-03-2014, 08:18 AM
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January 3
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If you...
January 3
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-02-2014, 09:20 AM
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January 2
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In...
January 2
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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 interested in a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-01-2014, 07:33 AM
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More Recovery Thoughts and Quotes - January
January 1
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
...If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it - then you are ready to take certain steps.
At...
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