Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-21-2014, 08:54 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-19-2014, 10:41 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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November 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We have elsewhere remarked how much better life is when lived on a spiritual plane. If God can solve the age-old riddle of alcoholism, He can solve your...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-19-2014, 10:41 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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November 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Suppose now you are making your second visit to a man. He has read this volume and says he is prepared to go through with the Twelve Steps of the program of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-19-2014, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 23
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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November 23
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
There I humbly offered myself to God, as I then understood Him, to do with me as He would. I placed myself unreservedly under His care and direction. I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-19-2014, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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November 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Selfishness - self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-19-2014, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 21
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Half...
November 21
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon. - Pg. 59 - How It Works
Hour To...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-17-2014, 09:39 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
November 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-17-2014, 09:39 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 8,826
November 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
November 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us. If these thoughts occur, they are hazy and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-17-2014, 09:38 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 18
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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November 18
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
As we discovered the principles by which the individual alcoholic could live, so we had to evolve principles by which A.A. groups and A.A. as a whole...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-17-2014, 09:38 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 17
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
November 17
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
11-16-2014, 09:22 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 16
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It...
November 16
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-11-2014, 07:13 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 15
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
November 15
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...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-11-2014, 07:12 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 14
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We,...
November 14
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. To show other...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-11-2014, 07:12 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
November 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The mind and the body are marvelous mechanisms, for mine endured this agony two more years. Sometimes I stole from my wife's slender purse when the morning...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-11-2014, 07:12 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 12
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
November 12
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-11-2014, 07:12 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 8,826
November 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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November 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances! - Pg. 100 -...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-07-2014, 08:43 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 10
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If a...
November 10
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If a person has cancer all are sorry for him and no one is angry or hurt. But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-07-2014, 08:43 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 8,826
November 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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November 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Though the family does not fully agree with dad's spiritual activities, they should let him have his head. Even if he displays a certain amount of neglect...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-07-2014, 08:42 AM
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Replies: 32
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November 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Now...
November 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Now about sex. Many of us needed an overhauling there. But above all, we tried to be sensible on this question. It's so easy to get way off track. Here we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-07-2014, 08:42 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 8,826
November 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Most...
November 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the light of our experience can recover, provided he does not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-06-2014, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 8,826
November 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Next,...
November 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director. He is the Principle: we are His agents. He is the Father, and we are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-05-2014, 09:53 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 8,826
November 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If...
November 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If you think you are an 'atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any form of intellectual pride which keeps you from accepting what is in this book, I feel...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-04-2014, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 8,826
November 4
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
There...
November 4
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
There will be other profound changes in the household. Liquor incapacitated father for so many years that mother became head of the house. By force of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-04-2014, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 8,826
November 3
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In...
November 3
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy, or the...
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