Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-31-2015, 08:10 AM
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AA Thought for the Day
January...
AA Thought for the Day
January 31
Easier, Softer Way
When I couldn't find an easier, softer way, I looked for the person with the magic wand,
the one...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-30-2015, 07:47 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January...
AA Thought for the Day
January 30
Control
When I was still drinking, I couldn't respond to any of life's situations the way other, more healthy, people...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-29-2015, 08:36 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January...
AA Thought for the Day
January 29
Identity
Every day, I feel a little bit more useful, more happy and more free. Life, including some ups and downs, is a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-28-2015, 09:05 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January...
AA Thought for the Day
January 28
Maintenance and Growth
It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness.
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-27-2015, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January...
AA Thought for the Day
January 27
Responsibility
To my chagrin, I've learned the hard way that I am responsible for slipping into mental and emotional...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-26-2015, 08:31 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January...
AA Thought for the Day
January 26
Loneliness
When we first listen to recovered alcoholics in AA talking freely and honestly about themselves, we are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-25-2015, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January...
AA Thought for the Day
January 25
A Spiritual Awakening
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-24-2015, 09:29 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,797
AA Thought for the Day
January...
AA Thought for the Day
January 24
Open-mindedness
Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven to AA, and there we discover the fatal nature of our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-23-2015, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 23
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AA Thought for the Day
January 23
Acceptance
I needed to look no further than the Twelve Steps and the powerful wording of our Serenity Prayer, "to accept the things we cannot change."
My...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-22-2015, 05:35 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,797
AA Thought for the Day
January 22
Great...
AA Thought for the Day
January 22
Great News!
The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution.
We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-21-2015, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,797
AA Thought for the Day
January 21
Trust...
AA Thought for the Day
January 21
Trust
For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God.
We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-20-2015, 04:29 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 20
The...
AA Thought for the Day
January 20
The Ladder
No one who drank as I did wakes up on the edge of the abyss one morning and says: Things look pretty scary; I think
I'd better stop drinking...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-19-2015, 07:55 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 19
Truth...
AA Thought for the Day
January 19
Truth
As I began to look more closely, I noticed serious flaws: I was an alcoholic; I was neurotic; I was brimful of serious character defects.
But these...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-18-2015, 04:59 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 18
A...
AA Thought for the Day
January 18
A Higher Power
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...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-17-2015, 05:53 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 17
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AA Thought for the Day
January 17
Habits
Our drinking was connected with many habits -- big and little.
Some of them were thinking habits, or things we felt inside ourselves. Others were...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-16-2015, 02:40 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 16
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AA Thought for the Day
January 16
Surrender
The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat
is the main taproot from which our whole Society has...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-15-2015, 04:03 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 15
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AA Thought for the Day
January 15
Philosophy
For me, AA is a synthesis of all the philosophy I've ever read, all of the positive, good philosophy, all of it based on love.
I have seen that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-14-2015, 05:47 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 14
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AA Thought for the Day
January 14
Perseverance
As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born,
and the sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable.
- Twelve Steps and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-13-2015, 04:53 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 13
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AA Thought for the Day
January 13
Difficulties
For pride, leading to self-justification, and always spurred by
conscious or unconscious fears, is the basic breeder of most
human...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-12-2015, 06:13 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 12
Fear ...
AA Thought for the Day
January 12
Fear
As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind,
as we discovered we could face life successfully, as we became
conscious of His presence, we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-11-2015, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 11
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AA Thought for the Day
January 11
Powerless
I am as powerless over alcohol as I am to turn back the waves of
the sea; no human force had the power to overcome my alcoholism.
Now I am able to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-10-2015, 03:56 AM
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Replies: 30
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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
01-09-2015, 02:48 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 9
Hope...
AA Thought for the Day
January 9
Hope and Dignity
I stumbled through the doors of AA in disgrace, expecting nothing from life, and I have been given hope and dignity.
Miraculously, the only...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-08-2015, 05:17 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 8
A New...
AA Thought for the Day
January 8
A New Beginning
I knew I had to have a new beginning, and this beginning had to be here. I had to let go of the past and forget the
future.
As long as I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-07-2015, 04:54 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 7
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AA Thought for the Day
January 7
Surrender
Because I find it hard to let go of the kind of worrisome thoughts and attitudes that cause me immense anguish,
all I need to do during those times...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-06-2015, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 6
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AA Thought for the Day
January 6
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
01-05-2015, 04:03 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,797
AA Thought for the Day
January 5
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AA Thought for the Day
January 5
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
01-04-2015, 08:42 AM
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Replies: 30
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AA Thought for the Day
January 4
Gossip...
AA Thought for the Day
January 4
Gossip
In a perverse way we can actually take satisfaction from the fact that many people annoy us,
for it brings a comfortable feeling of superiority....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-03-2015, 01:51 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,797
AA Thought for the Day
January 3
Let Go...
AA Thought for the Day
January 3
Let Go
If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it -
then you are ready to take certain steps. At some of these...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-02-2015, 05:23 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,797
AA Thought for the Day
January 2
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AA Thought for the Day
January 2
Footprints of Hope
So I looked ahead, along the path marked by the footprints of hope, commitment, and action.
All around me were many happy, sober people who...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-01-2015, 03:00 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 11,797
AA Thoughts For Today - January
AA Thought for the Day
January 1
Promises
We will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
We will not regret the past nor wish to...
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