Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-31-2014, 07:40 AM
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March 31
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Though...
March 31
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Though we work out our solution on the spiritual as well as an altruistic plane, we favor hospitalization for the alcoholic who is very jittery or befogged. More...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-30-2014, 07:20 AM
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Replies: 36
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March 30
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Of...
March 30
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Of necessity there will have to be discussion of matters medical, psychiatric, social, and religious. We are aware that these matters are, from their very...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-29-2014, 06:16 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 29
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If a...
March 29
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago. But we found that such codes and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-28-2014, 07:47 AM
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Replies: 36
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March 28
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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March 28
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-27-2014, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 36
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March 27
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It...
March 27
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It works -- it really does. - Pg. 88 - Into Action
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
Fragments of our addiction never stop calling, 'Hey, just one won't hurt;...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-26-2014, 08:22 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 26
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Your...
March 26
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Your candidate may give reasons why he need not follow all of the program. He may rebel at the thought of a drastic housecleaning which requires discussion with...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-25-2014, 06:27 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
March 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We realize that we have been giving you much direction and advice. We may have seemed to lecture. If that is so we are sorry, for we ourselves don't always care...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-24-2014, 08:27 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
'The...
March 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
'The way you fellows put this spiritual stuff makes sense. - Pg. 159 - A Vision For You
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
Do you sometimes feel like fate made a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-23-2014, 07:34 AM
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Replies: 36
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-22-2014, 07:33 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
As we...
March 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-21-2014, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 21
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
March 21
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The terms 'spiritual experience' and 'spiritual awakening' are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-20-2014, 08:00 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We must...
March 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long or happily in this world. - Pg. 73 - 74 - Into Action
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
It...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-19-2014, 08:04 AM
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Replies: 36
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March 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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March 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic. Science may one day accomplish this, but...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-18-2014, 07:55 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 18
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
March 18
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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 upon which we can...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-17-2014, 07:41 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 17
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If he...
March 17
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If he is sincerely interested and wants to see you again, ask him to read this book in the interval. After doing that, he must decide for himself whether he...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-16-2014, 07:02 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 16
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
So our...
March 16
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-15-2014, 08:24 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 15
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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March 15
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Whatever the precise definition of the word may be, we call this plain insanity. How can such a lack of proportion, of the ability to think straight, be called...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-14-2014, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 36
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March 14
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
All...
March 14
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
All went well for a time, but he failed to enlarge his spiritual life. To his consternation, he found himself drunk half a dozen times in rapid succession. - Pg....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-13-2014, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
This...
March 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
This seemed to prove that one alcoholic could affect another as no nonalcoholic could. It also indicated that strenuous work, one alcoholic with another, was...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-12-2014, 06:16 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 12
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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March 12
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Unmindful of his welfare, I thought only of recapturing the spirit of other days. There was that time we had chartered an airplane to complete a jag! His coming...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-11-2014, 08:13 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If,...
March 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-10-2014, 08:00 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 10
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
How...
March 10
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-09-2014, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Now...
March 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Now about health: A body badly burned by alcohol does not often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling. - Pg. 133 - The...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-08-2014, 07:38 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
March 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear. - Pg. 145 - To Employers
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
'Living...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-07-2014, 07:31 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The old...
March 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The old pleasures were gone. They were but memories. Never could we recapture the great moments of the past. There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-06-2014, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
This...
March 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
This fourth edition of 'Alcoholics Anonymous' came off the press in November 2001, at the start of a new millennium. Since the third edition was published in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-05-2014, 07:10 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Most of...
March 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people's shortcomings and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions are attitudes which make us more useful to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-04-2014, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 4
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Assuming...
March 4
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Assuming we are spiritually fit, we can do all sorts of things alcoholics are not supposed to do. People have said we must not go where liquor is served; we must...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-03-2014, 07:52 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 3
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If you...
March 3
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If you are an alcoholic who wants to get over it, you may already be asking -- 'What do I have to do?'
It is the purpose of this book to answer such questions...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-02-2014, 06:17 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
March 2
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We feel...
March 2
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning. A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective homes,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-01-2014, 07:32 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 17,948
More Recovery Thoughts and Quotes - March
March 1
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a POWER GREATER THAN OURSELVES. Obviously. But where and how...
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