Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-31-2014, 09:02 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
January 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 31
Paradox
2. We GIVE AWAY TO KEEP.
That seems absurd and untrue.
How can you keep something if you give it away?
But in order to keep whatever it is we get...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-30-2014, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 30
Paradox
1. We SURRENDER TO WIN.
On the face of it, surrendering certainly does not seem like winning.
But it is in AA. Only after we have come to the end...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-29-2014, 08:59 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 29
Peace...
AA Thought for the Day
January 29
Peace of Mind
More and more we became interested in seeing what we could contribute to life.
As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind,
as...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-28-2014, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 28
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AA Thought for the Day
January 28
Isolation
Isolation sneaks up on us.
We can mask it with familiar props that are not in themselves bad.
We can isolate ourselves in an attempt to clean up...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-27-2014, 08:44 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 27
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AA Thought for the Day
January 27
Housecleaning
Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves
certain facts about their lives.
Trying to avoid this humbling experience, they...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-26-2014, 07:58 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 26
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AA Thought for the Day
January 26
Acceptance
When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.
From that moment on, I have not had a single...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-25-2014, 10:10 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 25
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AA Thought for the Day
January 25
Bankruptcy
Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness.
It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-24-2014, 08:53 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 24
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AA Thought for the Day
January 24
Divine Mystery
My memories no longer fill me with shame and remorse.
On the contrary, they fill me with gratitude and joy.
My whole story is a sort of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-23-2014, 08:04 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 23
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AA Thought for the Day
January 23
Persuasion
The Twelve Steps of our AA program are not crammed down anybody's throat.
They are not sustained by any human authority. Yet we powerfully unite...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-22-2014, 09:08 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 22
The...
AA Thought for the Day
January 22
The Big Book
In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we could not do for ourselves.
We hope you are convinced now that God can...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-21-2014, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 21
Not...
AA Thought for the Day
January 21
Not Afraid
The First Step and I have always been great friends.
I repeated it every five seconds and thanked God each day for my sobriety --
the only grace,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-20-2014, 12:08 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought for the Day
January 20
Great...
AA Thought for the Day
January 20
Great Reality
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,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-19-2014, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought for the Day
January 19
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AA Thought for the Day
January 19
Complacency
It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels.
We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-18-2014, 09:50 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 18
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AA Thought for the Day
January 18
Spiritual Growth
Growth and understanding came slowly, but they came steadily.
And finally, I could feel gratitude for my sobriety -- for the saving grace of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-17-2014, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 17
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AA Thought for the Day
January 17
Convincing Evidence
The most convincing evidence I have today that I'm an alcoholic
is not how much or how long I drank, nor how drunk I got;
the most...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-16-2014, 08:02 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 16
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AA Thought for the Day
January 16
Expectations
Until I could honestly look at myself
and see that I was the problem in many situations and react appropriately inside and out;
until I could...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-15-2014, 09:10 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 15
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AA Thought for the Day
January 15
Promises
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not.
They are being...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-14-2014, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 14
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AA Thought for the Day
January 14
Obsession
The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking
is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.
The persistence of this...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-13-2014, 09:09 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought for the Day
January 13
Our...
AA Thought for the Day
January 13
Our Gateway
None of us can fathom the glories and the uncharted regions of the universe.
But we can live on earth and love one another.
We can let in the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-12-2014, 09:03 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 12
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AA Thought for the Day
January 12
Self-pity
I began to understand why, when I first came into AA, the most frequent warnings
from some of the old-timers were against self-pity.
All those...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-11-2014, 08:14 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought for the Day
January 11
Fear ...
AA Thought for the Day
January 11
Fear
At heart we had all been abnormally fearful.
It mattered little whether we had sat on the shore of life
drinking ourselves into forgetfulness
or had...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-10-2014, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought for the Day
January 10
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AA Thought for the Day
January 10
Impatience
The slogan "Easy Does It" is one way we AA's remind each other
that many of us have tendencies at times to overdo things,
to rush heedlessly...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-09-2014, 06:34 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought for the Day
January 9
Peace...
AA Thought for the Day
January 9
Peace of Mind
AA has taught me that I will have peace of mind
in exact proportion to the peace of mind I bring into the lives of other people,
and it has...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-08-2014, 10:06 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought for the Day
January 8
Change...
AA Thought for the Day
January 8
Change
The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better
and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-07-2014, 07:11 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 7
No...
AA Thought for the Day
January 7
No Reservations
We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again:
"Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic."
Commencing to drink after a period of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-06-2014, 09:40 AM
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Replies: 31
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AA Thought for the Day
January 6
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AA Thought for the Day
January 6
Unmanageability
All the laws that are at work in the world are going to make every life unmanageable
to one degree or another from time to time.
But for the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-05-2014, 09:59 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought for the Day
January 5
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AA Thought for the Day
January 5
Fantasy
The more I drank, the more I fantasized everything.
I imagined getting even for hurts and rejections.
In my mind's eye I played and replayed scenes...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-04-2014, 10:01 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought for the Day
January 4
Promises ...
AA Thought for the Day
January 4
Promises
We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. . .
We will suddenly realize that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-03-2014, 10:56 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought for the Day
January 3
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AA Thought for the Day
January 3
Powerlessness
Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course.
Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-02-2014, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought for the Day
January 2
Living...
AA Thought for the Day
January 2
Living Sober
Somewhat to our surprise, staying sober turns out not to be the grim,
wet-blanket experience we had expected!
While we were drinking, a life...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
01-01-2014, 08:46 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 19,398
AA Thought For Today - January
AA Thought for the Day
January 1
Hope
Each day, somewhere in the world,
recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic
sharing experience, strength, and hope.
- Alcoholics...
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