Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-29-2014, 07:47 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 29
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
I saw...
May 29
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
I saw that my friend was much more than inwardly reorganized. He was on a different footing. His roots grasped a new soil.
Despite the living example of my...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-28-2014, 07:24 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 28
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
I do not...
May 28
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
I do not hold with those who believe that alcoholism is entirely a problem of the mental control. I have had many men who had, for example, worked a period of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-27-2014, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 27
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Many...
May 27
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Many alcoholics are enthusiasts. They run to extremes. At the beginning of recovery a man will take, as a rule, one of two directions. He may either plunge into a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-26-2014, 09:16 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 26
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
What used...
May 26
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-25-2014, 06:26 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
So our...
May 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
So our rule is not to avoid a place where there is drinking, IF WE HAVE A LEGITIMATE REASON FOR BEING THERE. That includes bars, nightclubs, dances, receptions,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-24-2014, 06:50 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If you...
May 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If you have been successful in solving your own domestic problems, tell the newcomer's family how that was accomplished. In this way you can set them on the right...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-23-2014, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 23
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It...
May 23
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It relieved me somewhat to learn that in alcoholics the will is amazingly weakened when it comes to combating liquor, though it often remains strong in other...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-22-2014, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
On...
May 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-21-2014, 06:30 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 21
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
STEP SIX....
May 21
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
STEP SIX. We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-20-2014, 07:42 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Rarely...
May 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Rarely Have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-19-2014, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
THE FACT...
May 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
THE FACT IS THAT MOST ALCOHOLICS, FOR REASONS YET OBSCURE, HAVE LOST THE POWER OF CHOICE IN DRINK. OUR SO-CALLED WILL POWER BECOMES PRACTICALLY NONEXISTENT. WE ARE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-18-2014, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 18
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It did...
May 18
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that we were in full flight from reality, or were...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-17-2014, 07:20 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 17
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Our...
May 17
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Our Society then entered a fearsome and exciting adolescent period. The test that it faced was this: Could these large numbers of erstwhile erratic alcoholics...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-16-2014, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 16
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We find...
May 16
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We find it a waste of time to keep chasing a man who cannot or will not work with you. If you leave such a person alone, he may soon become convinced that he...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-15-2014, 06:51 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 15
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We seldom...
May 15
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We seldom allow an alcoholic to live in our homes for long at a time. It is not good for him, and it sometimes creates serious complications in a family. - Pg. 97...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-14-2014, 07:54 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 14
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
See your...
May 14
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
See your man alone, if possible. At first engage in general conversation. After a while, turn the talk to some phase of drinking. Tell him enough about your...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-13-2014, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Instead...
May 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics and atheists chose to believe that our human...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-12-2014, 08:18 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 12
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
To be...
May 12
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face. - Pg. 44 - We Agnostics
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-11-2014, 08:11 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Be...
May 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Be determined that your husband's drinking is not going to spoil your relations with your children or your friends. They need your companionship and your help. It...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-10-2014, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 10
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
May 10
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-09-2014, 06:26 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The great...
May 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences* which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-08-2014, 07:41 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
BUT THE...
May 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
BUT THE EX-PROBLEM DRINKER WHO HAS FOUND THIS SOLUTION, WHO IS PROPERLY ARMED WITH FACTS ABOUT HIMSELF, CAN GENERALLY WIN THE ENTIRE CONFIDENCE OF ANOTHER ALCOHOLIC...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-07-2014, 07:04 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Highly...
May 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Highly competent psychiatrists who have dealt with us have found it sometimes impossible to persuade an alcoholic to discuss his situation without reserve....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-06-2014, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We needed...
May 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. 'Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?' As soon as a man...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-05-2014, 07:41 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Logic is...
May 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Logic is great stuff. We liked it. We still like it. It is not by chance we were given the power to reason, to examine the evidence of our senses, and to draw...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-03-2014, 07:27 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 3
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When it...
May 3
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When it will serve any good purpose, we are willing to announce our convictions with tact and common sense. - Pg. 77 - Into Action
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-02-2014, 07:34 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
May 2
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We doctors...
May 2
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We doctors have realized for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but it's application presented difficulties...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
05-01-2014, 07:22 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 17,047
More Recovery Thoughts and Quotes - May
May 1
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink, as he may do for months or years, he reacts much like other men. We are equally positive that once he takes...
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