Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-31-2014, 06:38 AM
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October 31
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
While...
October 31
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
While our literature has preserved the integrity of the A.A. message, sweeping changes in society as a whole are reflected in new customs and practices within...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-30-2014, 07:52 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 30
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
October 30
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We reviewed our own conduct over the years past. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, or inconsiderate? Whom had we hurt? Did we unjustifiably arouse...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-29-2014, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 29
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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October 29
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Hence, we saw that reason isn't everything. Neither is reason, as most of us use it, entirely dependable, though it emanate from our best minds. What about...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-28-2014, 08:42 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 28
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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October 28
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Imagine life without faith! were nothing left but pure reason, it wouldn't be life. But we believed in life - of course we did. We could not prove life in the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2014, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 27
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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October 27
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Resentment is the 'number one' offender. It destroys more alcohlolics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-26-2014, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 26
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
There...
October 26
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
There may be some wrongs we can never fully right. We don't worry about them if we can honestly say to ourselves that we would right them if we could. - Pg. 83...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-25-2014, 06:36 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
October 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The spiritual life is not a theory. WE HAVE TO LIVE IT. - Pg. 83 - Into Action
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
Sometimes reality slaps us right in the face....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2014, 07:42 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In...
October 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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 remove whatever...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-23-2014, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 23
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When,...
October 23
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-22-2014, 08:06 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It is...
October 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It is probably true that you and your husband have been living too much alone, for drinking many times isolates the wife of an alcoholic. Therefore, you...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-21-2014, 06:07 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 21
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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October 21
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Despite all we can say, many who are real alcoholics are not going to believe they are in that class. By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-20-2014, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Of...
October 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Of far more importance was the fact that he was the first living human with whom I had ever talked, who knew what he was talking about in regard to alcoholism...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-19-2014, 07:06 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
This...
October 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
This is not to say that all alcoholics are honest and upright when not drinking. Of course that isn't so, and such people often may impose on you. Seeing your...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-18-2014, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 18
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
This...
October 18
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
This world of ours has made more material progress in the last century than in all the millenniums which went before. Almost everyone knows the reason....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-17-2014, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 17
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If...
October 17
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2014, 07:33 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 16
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Of...
October 16
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Of course, this chapter refers to alcoholics, sick people, deranged men. What our friend, the vice president, had in mind was the habitual or whoopee drinker....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-15-2014, 07:26 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 15
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
There...
October 15
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
10-14-2014, 06:38 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 14
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In...
October 14
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
10-13-2014, 07:49 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 9,373
October 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In...
October 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In this way we tried to shape a sane and sound ideal for our future sex life. We subjected each relation to this test - was it selfish or not? We asked God to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-12-2014, 07:52 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 12
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Here...
October 12
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-11-2014, 07:43 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
To...
October 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
To Whom It May Concern:
I have specialized in the treatment of alcoholism for many years.
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-10-2014, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 9,373
October 10
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Live...
October 10
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
10-09-2014, 06:02 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Some...
October 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Some of us have been violently anti-religious. To others, the word 'God' brought up a particular idea of Him with which someone had tried to impress them during...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-08-2014, 07:39 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
I had...
October 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
I had always believed in a Power greater than myself. I had often pondered these things. I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-07-2014, 06:38 AM
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Replies: 32
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October 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
October 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We will be more reconciled to discussing ourselves with another person when we see good reasons why we should do so. The best reason first: If we skip this...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2014, 07:04 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 9,373
October 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
More...
October 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor. To the outer world he presents his stage character. This is the one he...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-05-2014, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 9,373
October 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
October 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We urge you to try our program, for nothing will be so helpful to your husband as the radically changed attitude toward him which God will show you how to have....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-04-2014, 07:02 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 9,373
October 4
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Since...
October 4
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Since the home has suffered more than anything else, it is well that a man exert himself there. He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-03-2014, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 9,373
October 3
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If we...
October 3
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If we have been thorough about our personal inventory, we have written down a lot. We have listed and analyzed our resentments. We have begun to comprehend...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2014, 07:33 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 9,373
October 2
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
October 2
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2014, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 9,373
More Recovery Thoughts and Quotes - October
October 1
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The distinguished American psychologist, William James, in his book 'Varieties of Religious Experience,' indicates a multitude of ways in which men have...
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