Your
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“The snake which cannot cast its skin
has to die. "
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It's not going to be all right until
it's all right like it is right now.
~Unknown
“I don’t think too many human beings
are naturally above caring about victory and defeat. It’s imprinted in us to
care about the outcome of our actions. While this may be natural and normal,
the problem is that we can never fully control the outcome. Usually, in life
there are too many variables at play. So, no matter how mightily we strive or
how intense our effort, odds are that at least some of the time we will come
up short of our goals. And what makes things even more complicated is that
the more attached you are to the outcome, the more tension and fear you will
experience at the thought of possibly facing a crushing defeat—which reduces
our effectiveness, since part of our energy is trapped in the jaws of fear.
~Danielle Bolleli
"Let go of your attachment to
being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your
own judgment."
~Ralph Marston
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"We have seen the truth
demonstrated again and again: 'Once an
alcoholic, always an alcoholic.' Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 33 |
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Step Twelve - "Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to
alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
Even the newest of newcomers finds undreamed rewards as he tries to help his brother alcoholic, the one who is even blinder than he. This is indeed the kind of giving that actually demands nothing. He does not expect his brother sufferer to pay him, or even to love him. And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not. His own character may still be gravely defective, but he somehow knows that God has enabled him to make a mighty beginning, and he senses that he stands at the edge of new mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed. pp. 109-110 |
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A.A. Thought For The Day
Since I realize that I had become an alcoholic and could never have any more fun with liquor and since I knew that from then on liquor would always get me into trouble, common sense told me that the only thing left for me was a life of sobriety. But I learned another thing in A.A., the most important thing anyone can ever learn, that I could call on a Higher Power to help me keep away from liquor, that I could work with that Divine Principle in the universe and that God would help me to live a sober, useful, happy life. So now I no longer care about the fact that I can never have any more fun with drinking. Have I learned that I am much happier without it? Meditation For The Day Like a tree, I must be pruned of a lot of dead branches, before I will be ready to bear good fruit. Think of changed people as trees which have been stripped of their old branches, pruned, cut and bare, but through the dark, seemingly dead branches flows silently, secretly, the new sap, until with the sun of spring, comes new life. There are new leaves, buds, blossoms and fruit, many times better because of the pruning. Remember, I am in the hands of a Master Gardener, who makes no mistakes in His pruning. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may cut away the dead branches of my life. I pray that I may not mind the pruning, since it helps me to bear good fruit later. |
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Solution
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 if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help. c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 25 Thought to Consider . . . The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual. *~*AACRONYMS*~* S T E P S
Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety.
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Daily
Reflection
I DON'T RUN THE SHOW
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
everything or else
He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't
What was our
choice to be?
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 53
Today my choice is God. He is everything.
For this I am
truly grateful. When I think I am running
the show I am
blocking God from my life. I pray I can
remember this
when I allow myself to get caught up into
self. The most
important thing is that today I am
willing to grow along
spiritual lines, and that God is
everything. When I was
trying to quit drinking on my own, it
never worked; with
God and A.A., it is working. This seems
to be a simple
thought for a complicated alcoholic.
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