Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-31-2017, 05:02 AM
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October 31
Our problem is that we expect to...
October 31
Our problem is that we expect to feel secure.
Many of us have had past crises and problems, yet our worries and anxieties continue in the present. We believe that our situation...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-30-2017, 05:15 AM
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October 30
Willing to Make Amends
The...
October 30
Willing to Make Amends
The Eighth Step is talking about a change of heart, a healing change.
This attitude can begin a great chain of repair and healing in our relationships with...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-29-2017, 05:39 AM
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October 29
Being able to be wrong
We...
October 29
Being able to be wrong
We had to compete with everyone, sometimes subtly, sometimes less subtly. We always had to be right, to be wrong seemed unbearable. We could never seem to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-28-2017, 06:19 AM
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October 28
Developing ourselves
We must...
October 28
Developing ourselves
We must realize in our hearts that we are becoming better people. We do this by using our highest standards and making our best efforts. We do this, in part, by...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-27-2017, 05:24 AM
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October 27
You have to live on this 24 hours...
October 27
You have to live on this 24 hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your mortal soul. Its right use, its most...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-26-2017, 05:37 AM
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October 26
Aging is not easy, but what's our...
October 26
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
10-25-2017, 05:47 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 25
Reflection for the Day
We...
October 25
Reflection for the Day
We must never be blinded by the futile philosophy that we are just the hapless victims of our inheritance, of our life experience, and of our surroundings -...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-24-2017, 05:40 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 24
True expressions of love are said...
October 24
True expressions of love are said to come from a source which lies beneath words and thoughts.
--W. Timothy Gallwey
Remember when we just knew Grandmother loved us, even if she...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-23-2017, 04:42 AM
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Ocotber 23
I'm Not Ashamed
My child...
Ocotber 23
I'm Not Ashamed
My child dreamed of becoming a firefighter, a fisherman, and a marine biologist when he grew up. Becoming an addict was not on his list. I know the child who dreamed...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-22-2017, 04:13 AM
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October 22
When one knows Thee, then alien...
October 22
When one knows Thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut. Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of many.
--Rabindranath Tagore
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-21-2017, 04:23 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 21
This Mouse must give up one of...
October 21
This Mouse must give up one of the Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.
--Hyemeyohsts Storm
There is an American Indian tale of a mouse who heard a roaring in his...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-20-2017, 05:21 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 20
Self-Seeking Slips Away
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October 20
Self-Seeking Slips Away
Today, God, help me remember that not everything is about me.
When I was using, thinking of myself was my whole existence. With abstinence, I began to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-19-2017, 05:04 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 19
It's easy to look at all the...
October 19
It's easy to look at all the tasks and unsolved problems and feel so pressured that we get paralyzed and don't get anything done. It takes discipline to gather in our scattered forces...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-18-2017, 04:38 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 18
The feeling of belonging is a...
October 18
The feeling of belonging is a gift.
The feeling of belonging - knowing that we have a place - is one of the most important gifts that two partners can give to each other. When we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-17-2017, 05:20 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 17
Reflection for the Day
"When...
October 17
Reflection for the Day
"When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen when he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-16-2017, 04:15 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 16
Self-Help or Mutual Aid? ...
October 16
Self-Help or Mutual Aid?
Assisting Others
The Twelve Step movement is sometimes called a self-help program. This falls short of describing what it really is. Mutual aid might be a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-15-2017, 05:29 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 15
It is only with the heart that...
October 15
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly....
--Antoine de Saint Exupery
If we look at the world through suspicious or angry eyes, we'll find a world that mirrors our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-14-2017, 04:15 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 14
Where Love and Addiction Meet
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October 14
Where Love and Addiction Meet
The first time my child reached his dimpled little hand out for mine, I was there. And I've tried to be there every time he's reached out to me-and even...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-13-2017, 05:49 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 13
I had an easy life growing up. I...
October 13
I had an easy life growing up. I was not serious, and I'm trying to make up for it now.
-- Tom Harding
How we define an easy life may differ because everything is relative. Some of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-12-2017, 03:54 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 12
Give to the world the best you...
October 12
Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
--Madeline Bridges
Sometimes we feel lazy or bored, and then we don't do our best work. Perhaps we are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-11-2017, 04:52 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 11
Becoming forgiving
The lack...
October 11
Becoming forgiving
The lack of a forgiving spirit hurts our spiritual progress. Being unforgiving causes resentment, which is always a danger to our new way of life.
We have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-10-2017, 05:57 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 10
I cannot give you the formula for...
October 10
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - try to please everybody.
--Herbert Bayard Swope
Principles are rules or codes of conduct we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-09-2017, 05:04 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 9
I would be honest, for there are...
October 9
I would be honest, for there are those who trust me.
--Howard Arnold Walter
Some of those around us seem to see only the good in us. They trust and respect us, even when we ourselves...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-08-2017, 05:00 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 8
Listening and Sharing
"I've...
October 8
Listening and Sharing
"I've found that many of my painful experiences with others are the result of past memories," stated a friend.
"Often I'm not reacting so much to what is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-07-2017, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 7
Flowers, Not Weeds
When...
October 7
Flowers, Not Weeds
When addiction took hold of my son, it grew and spread like a thick, thorny vine, twisting and turning and choking him tight. But it didn't stop there. It kept...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-06-2017, 04:44 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 6
The Four "A's"
Dear God, I...
October 6
The Four "A's"
Dear God, I have learned to live within my limitations and to live up to my capacities as I grow in recovery. As I try to practice the principles of our Program, I will...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-05-2017, 05:28 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 5
Children do not know how their...
October 5
Children do not know how their parents love them, and they never will till the grave closes over those parents, or till they have children of their own.
--Edmund Vance Cooks
As...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-04-2017, 04:37 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 4
I like not only to be loved, but...
October 4
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved . . . the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
--George Eliot
We've all heard many times that we must...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-03-2017, 04:30 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 3
It is impossible that anything...
October 3
It is impossible that anything should be produced if there were nothing existing before.
--Aristotle
Everything comes from something. All the organic compounds in our world come from...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2017, 04:18 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 2
THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP
...
October 2
THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP
.... open up to hope and new possibilities...
Some mornings we may awaken filled with thoughts of what is wrong in our lives. Perhaps we obsess about our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2017, 05:59 AM
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Replies: 30
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Today's Thought - October
October 1
God gave burdens, also shoulders.
--Yiddish proverb
Some days we wake up, and we know we can't get out of bed. We lie there, trying to force ourselves, but none of the usual...
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