Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-30-2014, 09:36 AM
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September 30
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
At...
September 30
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail. This...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-29-2014, 07:58 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 29
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If...
September 29
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
09-28-2014, 08:10 AM
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September 28
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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September 28
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
There is, however, a vast amount of fun about it all. I suppose some would be shocked at our seeming worldliness and levity. But just underneath there is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-27-2014, 08:37 AM
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September 27
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
No...
September 27
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
No words can tell of the lonliness and despair I found in that bitter morass of self-pity. Quicksand stretched around me in all directions. I had met my...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-26-2014, 09:02 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 26
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
So...
September 26
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
So we shall describe some of the mental states that precede a relapse into drinking, for obviously this is the crux of the problem. - Pg. 35 - More About...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2014, 01:08 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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September 25
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When, therefore, we speak to you of God, we mean your own conception of God. This applies, too, to other spiritual expressions which you find in this book. -...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-24-2014, 09:28 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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September 24
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-23-2014, 07:20 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 23
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Men...
September 23
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2014, 08:20 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
September 22
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: 'Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.' Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2014, 07:09 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 21
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If...
September 21
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
09-20-2014, 08:29 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
September 20
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We suggest you draw the book to the attention of the doctor who is to attend your patient during treatment. If the book is read the moment the patient is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2014, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
September 19
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear. Whenever men are gathered together in business there will be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-18-2014, 08:41 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 18
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
We...
September 18
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
09-17-2014, 07:45 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 17
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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September 17
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Live and let live is the rule. If you both show a willingness to remedy your own defects, there will be little need to criticize each other. - Pg. 118 - To...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-16-2014, 07:37 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 16
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
September 16
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...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-15-2014, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 15
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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September 15
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities. 'How can I best serve Thee - Thy will ( not mine ) be done.' These...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-15-2014, 07:05 AM
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Replies: 35
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Thanks for sharing that MJ.
I always say how...
Thanks for sharing that MJ.
I always say how grateful I am to those with long time sobriety that continue to come to the meetings and share their experience strength and hope. I hope I never start...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-14-2014, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 14
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
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September 14
Hour To Hour - Book - Quote
Letting go of the past and the present is to admit powerlessness. This means that the outcome is not in your hands.
All I can do is the best I can...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-13-2014, 07:33 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If...
September 13
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-12-2014, 07:37 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 12
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
September 12
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
09-11-2014, 07:52 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
He...
September 11
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
He will presently try the old game again, for he isn't happy about his sobriety. He cannot picture life without alcohol. Some day he will be unable to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-10-2014, 08:25 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 10
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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September 10
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be on other questions. In this respect alcohol was a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-09-2014, 07:53 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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September 9
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
'Once an alcoholic, always and alcoholic.' Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. - Pg. 33 - More About...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-08-2014, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
This...
September 8
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it - this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish. - Pg. 34 -...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-07-2014, 07:46 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In...
September 7
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure. If the alcoholic tries to shield...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-06-2014, 07:54 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
For...
September 6
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
We finally saw that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-05-2014, 07:53 AM
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Replies: 35
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September 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In...
September 5
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
In our personal stories you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which is greater than himself. Whether we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-04-2014, 07:05 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 9,368
September 4
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
September 4
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The less people tolerated us, the more we withdrew from society, from life itself. As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-03-2014, 09:08 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 9,368
September 3
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
The...
September 3
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...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-02-2014, 08:38 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 9,368
September 2
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
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September 2
AA 'Big Book' - Quote
Having persevered with the rest of the program, they wondered why they fell. We think the reason is that they never completed their housecleaning. They took...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-01-2014, 08:46 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 9,368
More Recovery Thoughts and Quotes - September
September 1
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 the...
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