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Post by caressa on Apr 1, 2011 19:42:24 GMT -5
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Don't miss this (AA). If you do, you won't miss what's coming. - Bruce from Manly Australia.
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Post by caressa on Apr 2, 2011 16:25:51 GMT -5
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The thing I have to do for my personal recovery is to apply the Steps into my life. But the thing I owe to future generations of suffering alcoholics - and maybe my own children - is to maintain the fellowship with the simplicity, purity and integrity that I found when I came in. And the only way to do that is to pay careful attention to the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous.
- Doug D.
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Post by caressa on Apr 3, 2011 17:16:11 GMT -5
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This deal is as simple as A.B.C. - Accept, Begin and Continue. It doesn't take a lawyer or some intellectual gorilla to decipher that. And you can do it downtown or uptown or anywhere else. It doesn't make any difference. And if you'll hold on to the God of your understanding, the truth about yourself - namely that you cannot take one drink - and hold on to your AA friends, you'll hold on to total abstinence. And that's the name of this game.
- John C.
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Post by caressa on Apr 4, 2011 9:59:17 GMT -5
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We can't discover new worlds until we have the courage to let go of the shore. - Anon.
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Post by caressa on Apr 6, 2011 3:41:04 GMT -5
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If you can't turn over everything, turn over 'right now.' - Tom W.
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Post by caressa on Apr 6, 2011 15:44:36 GMT -5
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In the book 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest', the Indian man describes a vision he had watching his father drinking; He saw that as his father drank out of a spirit bottle, the bottle was drinking the spirit out of his father. That resonated with me - a lot. - Trip S.
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Post by caressa on Apr 7, 2011 17:24:36 GMT -5
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I never drank to get drunk. I never got up in the morning and said: 'God, it's gorgeous outside. I think I'll just get drunk and pee all over myself, maybe I'll just shame my family - Y'know what? It's so pretty, I'll just pass some bad cheques too.' - Charlie C.
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Post by caressa on Apr 8, 2011 9:19:39 GMT -5
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We're blessed with a disease where we're forced to love people.
- Terry
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Post by caressa on Apr 9, 2011 8:27:59 GMT -5
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I thought controlled drinking was; you drink all you can and then try to control yourself. - Sean A.
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Post by caressa on Apr 10, 2011 8:07:45 GMT -5
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If I don't let go, I lose my grip. - Anon.
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Post by caressa on Apr 11, 2011 20:31:29 GMT -5
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I remember that first drink and feeling so surprised and amazed and delighted. And I think of how many alcoholics are dying right now trying somehow, some way to re-create that moment. - Charlie C.
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Post by caressa on Apr 12, 2011 8:10:51 GMT -5
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My drinking had so isolated me that it was as if I was in a cave. And my family, over the years, and my wife in particular, had stood outside that cave asking me to come out, and I couldn't find my way out. Finally Ebby showed up outside the cave, and after being captive in a similar cave, he entered mine - he knew the way - and he took me by the hand and led me out. One cave-dweller helping another. And I knew that's what I wanted to do; I wanted to help other people like myself. - Bill W.
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Post by caressa on Apr 13, 2011 7:16:24 GMT -5
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Twelve Steps in six words: I can't. God can. Let Him. - Unknown origin.
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Post by caressa on Apr 14, 2011 17:37:56 GMT -5
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There are thousands who have come to AA and tried to change that Big Book. The key is David; Let that book change you.' - David O's sponsor.
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Post by caressa on Apr 15, 2011 4:22:07 GMT -5
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I sat on the steps of that liquor store, with my broken jaw, raccoon eyes, unwashed, uncombed hair. And I sat there waiting for.. I don't know what. And this VW pulls up, and these beautiful Californian AA's; bright smiles, bright eyes - I immediately hated them - got out and walked toward me, like I was a piece of gold, like I was an emerald sitting there on that sidewalk. - Sharon B.
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Post by caressa on Apr 16, 2011 6:12:39 GMT -5
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I never heard a better name for booze than Lunatic Soup. - Trip S.
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Post by caressa on Apr 17, 2011 8:20:01 GMT -5
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The person I was drank. The person I was will drink again. - Anon
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Post by caressa on Apr 18, 2011 4:22:45 GMT -5
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Resentment, fear and anger are related; resentment is the feeling I have when I remember that I didn't get my way in the past. Fear is the feeling I have when I don't think I'll get my way in the future. And anger is the feeling I have when I don't get my way right now! - Doug D.
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Post by caressa on Apr 19, 2011 13:23:18 GMT -5
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If you hate the whole human race yet demand it's approval at the same time...Welcome to Alcoholics Anonymous. - Charlie C.
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Post by caressa on Apr 20, 2011 5:30:56 GMT -5
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Gratitude is a verb. - Unknown origin.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.