Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-31-2016, 06:27 AM
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August 31
Sharing feelings
Many of us...
August 31
Sharing feelings
Many of us just did what other people did. We took drugs. But we felt so different from "normal" people. Why? Because of the way we did drugs and because drugs were...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-30-2016, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 30
My relationship with nature and...
August 30
My relationship with nature and plants is almost like religion with me.
--Monty Cralley
Feeling connected to something outside of ourselves is important to our perception of life....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-29-2016, 06:30 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 29
Man can live his truth, his...
August 29
Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
--Archibald. MacLeish
Many of us have lived double lives. There were public selves whom others knew, and private...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-28-2016, 08:12 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 28
Grief and crisis
. . . accept it...
August 28
Grief and crisis
. . . accept it as a wise teacher.
A couple has a child whom they would go to great lengths to protect, yet the child falls ill and lies near death. A woman devotes...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-27-2016, 07:27 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-26-2016, 06:51 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 26
Letting go
If addiction is...
August 26
Letting go
If addiction is about control, recovery is about letting go. If addiction is about denial, recovery is about accepting what is.
As we spend time in the program, we learn...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-25-2016, 07:41 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,361
August 25
How many ways can you brush your...
August 25
How many ways can you brush your teeth?
Our habits save time, and some of the good ones, such as abstinence, can also save our lives. A fine line separates useful habits from ruts;...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-24-2016, 05:07 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 24
It is a mistake to look too far...
August 24
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
--Sir Winston Churchill
How many times today will we think or say, "I wish I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-23-2016, 08:01 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 23
Reflection for the Day
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August 23
Reflection for the Day
Someone once defined the ego as "the sum total of false ideas about myself." Persistent reworking of the Twelve Steps enables me to gradually strip away my...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-22-2016, 08:06 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,361
August 22
Some people regard discipline as a...
August 22
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
--Julie Andrews
If we think of the word discipline, we might visualize forms of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-21-2016, 06:02 AM
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Replies: 30
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-20-2016, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 20
It takes more courage to reveal...
August 20
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-19-2016, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 19
Disappointment and Frustration
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August 19
Disappointment and Frustration
If we blindly accept someone else's beliefs or opinions - taking them as our own - then we set ourselves up for disappointment and heartache. If we do...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-18-2016, 07:22 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 18
... there are many sham diamonds...
August 18
... there are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa, many real diamonds which go unvalued.
--W. M. Thackeray
It's high praise to say that someone is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-17-2016, 08:40 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 17
Every conflict has many levels
...
August 17
Every conflict has many levels
Some couples live as if they are fighting a cold war. Conflicts are handled by retreat into silence with each feeling like a self-righteous victim. When...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-16-2016, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 16
Go and wake up your luck.
--...
August 16
Go and wake up your luck.
-- Persian proverb
We've been given recovery. For this, we're lucky. And we're grateful. Now it's up to us. We must accept our choices. When we're afraid,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-15-2016, 07:21 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 15
No one likes a martyr.
How do...
August 15
No one likes a martyr.
How do we feel around martyrs? Guilty, angry, trapped, negative, and anxious to get away.
Somehow, many of us have developed the belief that depriving...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-14-2016, 07:52 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 14
Living in the Present
One day...
August 14
Living in the Present
One day at a time,
This is enough.
Do not look back and grieve over the past.
For it is gone. . .
And do not be troubled about the future.
For it has not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-13-2016, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 13
Fear imprisons, faith liberates;...
August 13
Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourage; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.
-- Harry...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-12-2016, 06:46 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 12
Fall in love with life
I was...
August 12
Fall in love with life
I was sitting in the chair at the beauty shop getting my hair cut one day and listening to my beautician chatter away. She showed me a picture of one of her...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-11-2016, 08:35 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 11
Without a sense of humor, you're...
August 11
Without a sense of humor, you're old in a hurry.
--Janice Clark
We've all been in the company of constant complainers. They drag down the mood of everyone they encounter. Can we be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-10-2016, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 10
Readiness is a precondition for...
August 10
Readiness is a precondition for change.
If we earnestly and conscientiously apply the tools of our program, we are certain to experience positive change. We are promised new freedom...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-09-2016, 07:10 AM
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Replies: 30
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-08-2016, 06:52 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 8
I try to take one day at a time,...
August 8
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me all at once.
--Jennifer Unlimited
We all need a little humor in our lives and in the way we work the program. For...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-07-2016, 09:03 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,361
August 7
"If onlys" are lonely.
--Morgan...
August 7
"If onlys" are lonely.
--Morgan Jennings
The circumstances of our lives seldom live up to our expectations or desires. However, in each circumstance we are offered an opportunity for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-06-2016, 07:10 AM
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Replies: 30
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August 6
As life is action and passion, it...
August 6
As life is action and passion, it is required of man that he should share the action and passion of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-05-2016, 08:31 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,361
August 5
Changing our attitudes
Our...
August 5
Changing our attitudes
Our prayer is, "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-04-2016, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,361
August 4
We believe in Human Ecology,
the...
August 4
We believe in Human Ecology,
the understanding and care of human beings
as whole persons in light of their relationship
to God, themselves, their families,
and the society in which...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-03-2016, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,361
August 3
We are not unlike a particularly...
August 3
We are not unlike a particularly hardy crustacean. ... With each passage from one stage of human growth to the next, we, too, must shed a protective structure.
--Gail Sheehy
Our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-02-2016, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,361
August 2
Reflection for the Day
What...
August 2
Reflection for the Day
What wonderful things could happen in my life if I could get rid of my natural impulse to justify my actions? Is honesty so deeply repressed under layers of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-01-2016, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,361
Today's Thought - August
August 1
I watched a man I know help his wife take care of their babies.
“How did you learn to be such a good dad?” I asked. He explained that his father had been a great dad. His mother had...
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