Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-28-2014, 11:23 AM
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February 28
I'm slipping when I begin to...
February 28
I'm slipping when I begin to dislike the company and conversation of the Program.
--Anonymous
There is a reason why a lamb gets separated from a flock. The flock will be eating on...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-27-2014, 08:35 AM
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February 27
Good thoughts bear good fruit,...
February 27
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit – and man is his own gardener.
--John Leonard
Evil thoughts and destructive attitudes are not forced on us by fate. They...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-26-2014, 08:27 AM
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February 27
Worry is like a rocking chair....
February 27
Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
--Anonymous
We addicts need to be very careful when we feel worried because it can...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-25-2014, 08:22 AM
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February 25
Our awesome responsibility to...
February 25
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-24-2014, 08:25 AM
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February 24
Our Higher Power is in charge. ...
February 24
Our Higher Power is in charge.
It's such a relief to give up our obsession to control, once we learn how. As we do to establish any new routine, we have to practice. In this case,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-23-2014, 09:00 AM
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February 23
Say when it's time to stop...
February 23
Say when it's time to stop coping.
In her book Recovering from the Loss of a Child, author Katherine Fair Donnelly writes of a man whose infant daughter, Robyn, dies from SIDS...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-22-2014, 07:40 AM
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February 22
A terrace nine stories high...
February 22
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.
--Lao-tzu
Imagine yourself with a pile of dirt in front of you and building plans for a one-story structure. It would be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-21-2014, 07:37 AM
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February 21
I'd like to live as a poor man...
February 21
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
--Pablo Picasso
Some of us were taught not to place a lot of value on money. After all, it's only money, and money can't buy...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-20-2014, 08:12 AM
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February 20
Aging is not easy, but what's...
February 20
Aging is not easy, but what's our alternative?
- Helen Casey
The kind of attitude we developed over our lives determined how we saw every detail of each experience. Even now our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-19-2014, 08:25 AM
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Replies: 30
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February 19
Every day is a different day....
February 19
Every day is a different day. You never know what it will bring. That's the exciting thing about getting up every morning.
--Alpha English
No doubt we have all hit spells when we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-18-2014, 10:51 AM
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February 18
There's one thing you can't give...
February 18
There's one thing you can't give away. You can't give away a smile. It always comes back to you.
--Violet Hensley
We have had years of experience with the results of smiling. How...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-17-2014, 09:02 AM
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February 17
Dear God,
Thank you for the...
February 17
Dear God,
Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.
--Children's Letters to God
Sometimes we look around, assess the situation, and decide what we think...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-16-2014, 07:53 AM
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February 16
How much more grievous are the...
February 16
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
--Marcus Aurelius
Anger shatters our calm. Some of us show it in loud bursts; others just quietly stew....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-15-2014, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 15
Coping with Families
There...
February 15
Coping with Families
There are many paths to self-care with families. Some people choose to sever connections with family members for a period of time. Some people choose to stay...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-15-2014, 08:02 AM
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February 14
Love, the magician, knows this...
February 14
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
--Hugh Prather
Destiny has its own course in each of our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-15-2014, 08:02 AM
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February 13
What if?
I was talking to a...
February 13
What if?
I was talking to a friend one day about something I planned to do. Actually, I was worrying about how one particular person might react to what I intended to do.
"What...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-15-2014, 08:02 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 12
I find it awfully hard to give...
February 12
I find it awfully hard to give myself a break. I don't know where that attitude comes from.
--Walker I.
"I can't. I shouldn't. It's my fault." These self-abasing and self-defeating...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-15-2014, 08:01 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 11
No person was ever honored for...
February 11
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
--Calvin Coolidge
There's really only one way to achieve self-respect and that is to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-15-2014, 08:01 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 10
In real love you want the other...
February 10
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
--Margaret Anderson
The expression of real love is so easy between grandparents and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-15-2014, 08:01 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 9
To avoid pain at all costs forces...
February 9
To avoid pain at all costs forces us to reject half the lessons life can teach.
--Jan Pishok
If we could remember that every experience we'll ever have is unique and offers us a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-15-2014, 08:00 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 8
You are reading from the book ...
February 8
You are reading from the book The Language Of Letting Go.
Letting Go of Guilt
Feeling good about ourselves is a choice. So is feeling guilty. When guilt is legitimate, it acts as a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-15-2014, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 7
You are reading from the book ...
February 7
You are reading from the book The Language Of Letting Go.
Owning Our Power
We need to make a distinction between powerlessness and owning our power.
The first step in recovery is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-15-2014, 07:57 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 6
He that cannot forgive others...
February 6
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
-- Thomas Fuller
Often we're afraid to forgive others who've...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-15-2014, 07:57 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 5
How the I pervades all things! ...
February 5
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...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-04-2014, 07:12 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 4
Differences
. . . with no...
February 4
Differences
. . . with no hidden cutting edge.
The respect and dignity a couple show each other set the table from which they are nourished for all other activities in their...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-03-2014, 07:42 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 3
Goodwill
Looking at other...
February 3
Goodwill
Looking at other people with jealousy, envy, and mean and bitter thoughts isn't new to our world. The concept of giving other people the evil eye has been around for a long...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-02-2014, 08:01 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
February 2
The Program works if you want it...
February 2
The Program works if you want it to work.
--Anonymous
Rarely do climbers stare up to see how far away the top still is. Instead, when they rest, they look down toward the starting...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
02-01-2014, 07:05 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 12,878
Today's Thought - February
February 1
Bring the body, and the mind will follow.
--Saying heard in meetings
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