Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-31-2017, 07:12 AM
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May 31
Noble deeds and hot baths are the...
May 31
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
--Dodie Smith
When we change our lives, we give up old patterns. Some of these old patterns, as harmful as they may have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-30-2017, 06:02 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 30
You have three choices: keep on...
May 30
You have three choices: keep on fighting, ignore each other, or make up and be friends.
--John Knoblauch
Once there were four sixth-graders - two boys and two girls - who started to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-29-2017, 06:10 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 29
Information is of two kinds. We know...
May 29
Information is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
--Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is power. The more information we have, the more...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-28-2017, 04:04 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 28
Inertia is a powerful force. So is...
May 28
Inertia is a powerful force. So is compulsive behavior.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results," writer Earnie Larsen has said for years. I think...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-27-2017, 06:17 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 27
Accepting our limitations
Helen...
May 27
Accepting our limitations
Helen Keller said, "Life is a banquet and most of us are starving to death." Drinking and using sure kept us from seeing the beauty, the bounty in our lives....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-26-2017, 06:47 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 26
Impulsive reactions never benefit us....
May 26
Impulsive reactions never benefit us.
Immediate responses to every situation aren't necessary. But sometimes we make snap decisions because we fear looking inadequate or stupid....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-25-2017, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 25
I feel at this age I can go overboard...
May 25
I feel at this age I can go overboard and be as ridiculous as I want.
--Miriam Hofmeier
A real blessing of growing old is the freedom it gives us to be who we really are. Of course, we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-24-2017, 06:52 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 24
Trying to pray is praying. ...
May 24
Trying to pray is praying.
--Anonymous
"Oh, God, help me! If you get me out of this mess, I'll never screw up again." This was our favorite prayer before we entered the Program. We were...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-23-2017, 06:54 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 23
The price of wisdom is above rubies. ...
May 23
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
--Job 28:18
Our program is founded on wisdom, and the wisdom of the program is the light of our lives. It shines into the dark comers of the spirit...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-22-2017, 08:14 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 22
If one is going to be truthful, one...
May 22
If one is going to be truthful, one has to be very tender.
--Florida Scott-Maxwell
Honesty is always the best policy, right? We glibly recite that saying, but it's important to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-21-2017, 06:02 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 21
Home wasn't build in a day.
--Jane...
May 21
Home wasn't build in a day.
--Jane Ace
Newcomer
I'm a lot better than when I was active in my addiction. But parts of my life still feel beyond my control. I don't mean earthquakes...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-20-2017, 06:39 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 20
Children begin by loving their...
May 20
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
--Oscar Wilde
The mature person eventually forgives his parents. Any adult can...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-19-2017, 06:23 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 19
Expectations of Others
It is our...
May 19
Expectations of Others
It is our job to identify our needs, and then determine a balanced way of getting those needs met. We ultimately expect our Higher Power and the Universe - not one...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-18-2017, 05:32 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 18
Love is a great beautifier. ...
May 18
Love is a great beautifier.
--Louisa May Alcott
How do we feel when someone says, "I love you"? Do we feel a rush of warmth throughout our bodies? Do we walk a little taller? Do smiles...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-17-2017, 03:06 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 17
Even if you understand and follow all...
May 17
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
05-16-2017, 07:02 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 16
The lust of power is not rooted in...
May 16
The lust of power is not rooted in strength, but in weakness.
--Erich Fromm
We believed alcohol or other drugs could help us control our happiness. But now we're learning to rely on...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-15-2017, 07:38 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 15
If you keep saying things are going...
May 15
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
--Isaac B. Singer
We all know men and women who are too often critical and negative. Sometimes...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-14-2017, 06:10 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 14
To have one's individuality...
May 14
To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.
--Evelyn Scott
We need to know that we matter in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-13-2017, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 13
Maturity doesn't come with age or...
May 13
Maturity doesn't come with age or intellectual wisdom, only with love.
--Ruth Casey
We may have thought being mature meant being "grown-up." This meant acting rationally, showing good...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-12-2017, 06:21 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,746
May 12
Reflection for the Day
When we...
May 12
Reflection for the Day
When we take the Ninth Step, we must be willing to be absolutely honest. Obviously, though, indiscriminate "absolute honesty" would blow the roof off many a house...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-11-2017, 03:53 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 11
To the rationally minded, the mental...
May 11
To the rationally minded, the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises.
--Frances Wickes
Intuition is a valuable form...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-10-2017, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 30
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May 10
Before he closed his eyes, he let...
May 10
Before he closed his eyes, he let them wander round his old room . . . familiar and friendly things . . . which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted on for the same...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-09-2017, 07:09 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,746
May 9
A.A. Thought for the Day
Another...
May 9
A.A. Thought for the Day
Another of the mottoes of A.A. is "But for the Grace of God." Once we have fully accepted the program we become humble about our achievement. We do not take too...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-08-2017, 06:50 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,746
May 8
The less able I am to believe in our...
May 8
The less able I am to believe in our epoch and the more arid and depraved mankind seems in my eyes, the less I look to revolution as the remedy and the more I believe in the magic of love....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-07-2017, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,746
May 7
Progress, Not Perfection. ...
May 7
Progress, Not Perfection.
--Alcoholics Anonymous slogan
We don't expect our lives to be perfect. We don't expect ourselves to be perfect. We just want to stop the insanity of addiction...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-06-2017, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,746
May 6
The trouble is not that we are never...
May 6
The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical.
--Ruth Benedict
Happiness is our birthright. The decision to be happy is ours to make, every day, when...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-05-2017, 06:26 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,746
May 5
Love consists in this, that two...
May 5
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
For a relationship to be healthy and fulfilling, each of us must respect the other....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-04-2017, 06:19 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,746
May 4
How the I pervades all things! ...
May 4
How the I pervades all things!
--William Ellery Channing
If we could extract the "I" from our thoughts, some of us would lose our focus. We have a tendency to think only of our comfort,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-03-2017, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,746
May 3
Be yourself. Who else is better...
May 3
Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?
--Frank J. Giblin, II
Almost every magazine devotes its cover to movie stars and famous personalities. We are taught that we need to look like...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-02-2017, 06:45 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,746
May 2
Good Grief
"The strangest thing...
May 2
Good Grief
"The strangest thing happened," said my friend, a lovably neurotic, very obsessive businessman in his mid-forties.
"I was watching one of those afternoon TV talk shows. This...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-01-2017, 07:12 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,746
Today's Thought - May
May 1
Reflection for the Day
My courage must come each day, as does my desire to avoid a single drink or a single addictive act. It must be a continuing courage, without deviations and...
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