Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 04:29 AM
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October 4
In less than one year, 98 percent...
October 4
In less than one year, 98 percent of all the atoms in your body are replaced completely. This includes even the DNA, which holds memories of millions of years of evolutionary time. . ....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 04:25 AM
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October 4
Challenges you choose
There...
October 4
Challenges you choose
There is no overwhelming need or financial incentive for people to climb mountains. Yet plenty of people do so, and often pay handsomely for the opportunity.
...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-03-2024, 06:43 AM
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October 3
Only when we humbly ask for help...
October 3
Only when we humbly ask for help are we ready to receive it.
On occasion, our problems seem overwhelming, and we don't know where to turn. Our job is stressful. Our health is failing....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-03-2024, 06:42 AM
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October 3
Going through the motions
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October 3
Going through the motions
Going through the motions is not a good habit when you’re trying to avoid the work. Yet it can be very useful when you are learning to do the work.
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2024, 04:10 AM
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October 2
Reflection for the Day
When...
October 2
Reflection for the Day
When we first stopped drinking, using, overeating, or gambling, it was an enormous relief to find that the people we met in the program seemed quite different...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-02-2024, 04:08 AM
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October 2
Ability to imagine
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October 2
Ability to imagine
Imagination is not a trivial thing. Give it the seriousness it deserves.
When you imagine, put time and effort into it. Imagine in specific detail, with feeling,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2024, 12:49 PM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2024, 06:40 AM
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Today's Thought - October
October 1
Sponsorship Saves
For years, I used to think that acceptance meant I had to like something to accept it.
Oh, no, I don't have to like it. I just need to accept it. To let it go....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-01-2024, 06:37 AM
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Daily Motivator - October
October 1
Be there
Great value exists in the immediate physical presence of other people, places, and activities. Although remote, virtual experiences can be quite rich, they are never the same...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-30-2024, 06:10 AM
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Daily Recovery Readings - October 1
God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
and Wisdom to know the difference.
Thy will, not mine, be done.
October 1
Daily...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-28-2024, 05:54 AM
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September 28
Every time I close the door on...
September 28
Every time I close the door on Reality, it comes in through the window.
~Ashleigh Brilliant
In the past, many of us closed the door on the reality of our abuse of ourselves or...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-28-2024, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 32
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September 29
Now is ready
No one you...
September 29
Now is ready
No one you know currently has any time other than now. Every person, everything that exists, is now.
So what are you going to do with it all, right now? How will...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-28-2024, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,834
September 28
What it means to think big
...
September 28
What it means to think big
Thinking big is not about devising outlandish goals for yourself. Thinking big comes from understanding you have an important role to play in the world....
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
09-27-2024, 08:52 AM
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Afraid Of Dying
None of us should ever be afraid of dying, we're all going to do that. What we all should be afraid of is not having ever lived to begin with in what little time we all have before we do die. What...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-26-2024, 05:22 AM
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Replies: 31
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September 26
If I have freedom in my life, ...
September 26
If I have freedom in my life,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.
~Richard Lovelace
When a cow decides to stop nursing her calf, she...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-26-2024, 05:07 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,834
September 26
Take the win
When you get...
September 26
Take the win
When you get up in the morning and your world is still intact, take the win. When you complete what you’ve set out to do, take the win.
Take the win, thankful for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2024, 08:15 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,106
October 4
Daily Reflections
A NECESSARY...
October 4
Daily Reflections
A NECESSARY PRUNING
. . . . we know that the pains of drinking had to come
before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2024, 08:14 AM
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Replies: 11
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October 3
Daily Reflections
SERENITY...
October 3
Daily Reflections
SERENITY AFTER THE STORM
Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that
pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily
we A.A.'s...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2024, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 25,259
September 25
AA Thought for the Day
All...
September 25
AA Thought for the Day
All alcoholics have personality problems. They drink to escape from life, to counteract feelings of loneliness or inferiority, or because of some emotional...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-25-2024, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 32
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September 25
Do it one better
Accept...
September 25
Do it one better
Accept what is, accept what comes. Then do it one better.
You’re not going to fix all that’s wrong in the world. Yet you can constantly improve yourself and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-24-2024, 06:24 AM
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Replies: 31
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September 24
To ease another's heartache is...
September 24
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
~Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes, in our self-centeredness, we fall into a pit of self-pity. Most of us have enough pain and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-24-2024, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,834
September 24
Right time
Today has come...
September 24
Right time
Today has come at the right time for you. Be confident in living it well.
There’s much you can do that you could not do before. And now are opportunities you will...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-23-2024, 06:38 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 25,259
September 23
Why, then the world's mine...
September 23
Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.
~William Shakespeare
We had little doubt, as youngsters, that the world was our oyster, and we were going to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-23-2024, 06:34 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,834
September 23
Living in harmony
Harmony...
September 23
Living in harmony
Harmony does not mean everyone is in agreement. Harmony exists when no one is attempting to force his or her opinions on others.
Harmony does not require...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2024, 07:01 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,106
October 2
Daily Reflections
THE ACID...
October 2
Daily Reflections
THE ACID TEST
As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for
the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten
we commence to put our A.A....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2024, 07:01 AM
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Daily Recovery Readings - October
October 1
Daily Reflections
LEST WE BECOME COMPLACENT
It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest
on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol
is a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2024, 06:59 AM
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Replies: 29
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September 30
Daily Reflections
THE...
September 30
Daily Reflections
THE CIRCLE AND THE TRIANGLE
The circle stands for the whole world of A.A., and the triangle
stands for A.A.'s Three Legacies of Recovery, Unity, and Service....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2024, 06:58 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-22-2024, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 31
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September 22
The world has more depth in...
September 22
The world has more depth in autumn. So, it seems, does my soul.
~Jane Nakken
The earth prepares to rest when autumn comes. Trees shed their leaves, flowers drop their blooms,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2024, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,834
September 22
Your dreams are real
...
September 22
Your dreams are real
Dreams exist for a reason. They’re meant to get your attention, to captivate your imagination.
So pay attention. Imagine with wild abandon.
Of course...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2024, 06:33 AM
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Replies: 31
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September 21
Resentments
Nothing on...
September 21
Resentments
Nothing on earth consumes a man more completely as the passion of resentment.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Resentments are among the greatest roadblocks along the route...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2024, 06:30 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,834
September 21
You have what’s necessary
...
September 21
You have what’s necessary
If you can invent an excuse to avoid action, you can also come up with a compelling reason to take that action. When there’s a reason to quit, there’s...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-20-2024, 04:34 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 25,259
September 20
Faith is the subtle chain which...
September 20
Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.
~Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Surrendering ourselves to a Higher Power is a big step. As addicts, trust has not been one of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-20-2024, 04:31 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,834
September 20
Insist on reality
Give up...
September 20
Insist on reality
Give up your illusions. Go forward with your values, your strength, and with objective truth.
It’s easy to pretend to yourself, and to go along with the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2024, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 24,887
September 28
Daily Reflections
LOVE...
September 28
Daily Reflections
LOVE WITHOUT STRINGS
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much
insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with
other alcoholics.
ALCOHOLICS...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2024, 06:07 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 24,887
September 27
Daily Reflections
WITHOUT...
September 27
Daily Reflections
WITHOUT RESERVATION
When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely
result in outgoing love, . . . .
AS BILL SEES IT, p.37
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2024, 06:05 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 24,887
September 26
Daily Reflections
OUR...
September 26
Daily Reflections
OUR CHILDREN
The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly
relations with his children. . . . In time they will see
that he is a new man and in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2024, 05:51 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 25,259
September 19
Came to believe that a Power...
September 19
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
~Step Two of Alcoholics Anonymous
The Second Step pushes us to start believing in something other...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2024, 05:39 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,834
September 19
Where achievement happens
...
September 19
Where achievement happens
How do you accomplish what must be done? Start by getting yourself precisely in the place where you can do it.
To get in shape, go to the gym. To write...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
09-18-2024, 09:30 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,960
You Choose
It's our choice for all of us, no one else is ever going to be able to choose for you. Only we get to choose if we're going to make recovery be in our life, but before any of us get to make this...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-18-2024, 06:41 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 25,259
September 18
God offers to every mind its...
September 18
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Denial is sneaky and hard to detect. Like a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-18-2024, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,834
September 18
Good things are possible
...
September 18
Good things are possible
Good things are possible for you. Even with your situation as it is, even with what you’ve been through, good things are possible.
There are aspects of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-17-2024, 06:24 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 25,259
September 17
As a matter of fact, prayer is...
September 17
As a matter of fact, prayer is the only real action in the full sense of the word, because prayer is the only thing that changes one's character.
~Emmet Fox
Erica Jong has said...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-17-2024, 06:22 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,834
September 17
Winning and losing
Your...
September 17
Winning and losing
Your wins and losses are important, yet the integrity with which you act matters even more. Keep that in mind when seeking the victories and recovering from...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-16-2024, 02:13 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 25,259
September 16
Lying is done with words, and...
September 16
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
~Adrienne Rich
Most of us are fundamentally honest people who would not deliberately tell an untruth. But there are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-16-2024, 02:11 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 18,834
September 16
A little difference
Make a...
September 16
A little difference
Make a little bit of a difference. Do it again and again.
Know where you desire to go. Proceed in that direction, one small step at a time.
A sure way to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-15-2024, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 24,887
September 25
Daily Reflections
FIRST...
September 25
Daily Reflections
FIRST THINGS FIRST
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth:
Job or no job -- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop
drinking so long as...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-15-2024, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 24,887
September 24
Daily Reflections
...
September 24
Daily Reflections
VIGILANCE
We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again:
"Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." Commencing
to drink after a period of sobriety, we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-15-2024, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 24,887
September 23
Daily Reflections
"I WAS...
September 23
Daily Reflections
"I WAS AN EXCEPTION"
He [Bill W.] said to me, gently and simply, "Do you
think that you are one of us?"
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 413
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-15-2024, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 24,887
September 22
Daily Reflections
A...
September 22
Daily Reflections
A "LIMITLESS LODE"
Like a gaunt prospector, belt drawn in over the last
ounce of food, our pick struck gold. Joy at our
release from a lifetime of...
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