Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-31-2014, 07:30 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-30-2014, 07:10 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-29-2014, 05:51 AM
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March 29
ISOLATION
“Isolation is the...
March 29
ISOLATION
“Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.”
Thomas Carlyle
This past summer I was forced to play "catch-up" at work in order to compensate for time lost while...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-28-2014, 07:39 AM
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March 28
GRATITUDE
"Gratitude is a...
March 28
GRATITUDE
"Gratitude is a fruit of a great civilization ~ you do not find it among gross people."
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson's quote from the TOUR OF THE HEBRIDES could easily...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-27-2014, 08:09 AM
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March 27
Forgiveness
"To err is...
March 27
Forgiveness
"To err is human, to forgive is divine."
Alexander Pope
When most of us first came into Program, we carried around a great deal of shame, guilt, and resentment. This...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-26-2014, 07:58 AM
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March 26
Victimization
"Within each of...
March 26
Victimization
"Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and to sickness,
to riches and to poverty, to freedom and to slavery.
It is we who control these, and not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-25-2014, 06:11 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-24-2014, 08:15 AM
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March 24
Positive Thinking
"It...
March 24
Positive Thinking
"It takes but one positive when given
a chance to survive and thrive to overpower
and entire army of negative thoughts."
Robert H. Schuller
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-23-2014, 07:25 AM
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March 23
Progress, Not Perfection
"The...
March 23
Progress, Not Perfection
"The maxim 'Nothing but perfection'
may be spelled "Paralysis."
Winston Churchill
I can't count the number of times I've heard the expression, "progress...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-22-2014, 07:26 AM
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March 22
PUSHING BUTTONS & PATIENCE
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March 22
PUSHING BUTTONS & PATIENCE
"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is Patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I first came to Program, I didn't really know what abstinence was. I thought...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-21-2014, 07:44 AM
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March 21
PATIENCE
"Patience is the...
March 21
PATIENCE
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Saint Augustine
Patience is an area that I have had some REAL problems with in the past. I had a tendency to want - what I want -...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-20-2014, 07:52 AM
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March 20
Maintenance
"Another flaw in...
March 20
Maintenance
"Another flaw in the human character is
that everybody wants to build and nobody
wants to do maintenance."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
With the help of our Higher Power,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-19-2014, 07:50 AM
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March 19
Commitment
Shallow men believe...
March 19
Commitment
Shallow men believe in luck ~
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abstinence did not happen for me until I made a commitment to it. I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-18-2014, 07:49 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-17-2014, 07:23 AM
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March 17
PAIN AND PRETENDING
"To live...
March 17
PAIN AND PRETENDING
"To live is to suffer,
to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
Friedrich Nietzsche
I love to walk in the woods. The silent serenity of shadowed...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-16-2014, 06:45 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-15-2014, 08:13 AM
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March 15
LOYALTY
“We are all in the...
March 15
LOYALTY
“We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea,
and we owe each other our loyalty."
~ G. K. Chesterton
As is often typical of a compulsive overeater, the more I struggled...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-14-2014, 07:20 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-13-2014, 07:07 AM
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March 13
Love
"Being deeply loved by...
March 13
Love
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage."
~ Lao Tzu
As we explore our twelve step program and peel away the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-12-2014, 06:08 AM
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March 12
SEASONS OF OUR SOUL
"You...
March 12
SEASONS OF OUR SOUL
"You will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does
not wither and whatever you do prospers."...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-11-2014, 07:32 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-10-2014, 08:02 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-09-2014, 08:07 AM
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March 9
~ THE ITSY BITSY SPIDER ~
"I...
March 9
~ THE ITSY BITSY SPIDER ~
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-08-2014, 07:42 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-07-2014, 07:45 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-06-2014, 07:26 AM
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March 6
Scars
"Out of suffering have...
March 6
Scars
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;
the most massive characters are seared with scars."
~ Kahlil Gibran
I’ve lived most of my life filled with bitterness...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-05-2014, 07:15 AM
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March 5
~ IMPULSIVENESS ~
"It is...
March 5
~ IMPULSIVENESS ~
"It is especially important not to make major life changes
when you are guided by emotions. If you are emotionally excited
(either in the positive or negative),...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-04-2014, 07:31 AM
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March 4
March
"March is the month of...
March 4
March
"March is the month of expectation, the things we do not know,
The 'Persons of Prognostication' are coming now."
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm not sure whether it's because I'm...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-03-2014, 08:39 AM
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March 3
A Disease?
"Doc! What do you...
March 3
A Disease?
"Doc! What do you mean - nothing! What? An incurable disease?
Doc, you're kidding me! You're trying to scare me into stopping!
What's that you say? You wish you were?
Why...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-02-2014, 06:04 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-01-2014, 07:20 AM
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One Day At A Time - March
March 1
ANONYMITY
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
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