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Post by caressa on May 21, 2011 12:29:44 GMT -5
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Frequently, addicts and alcoholics who experience difficulties will isolate in order to lick their wounds like an injured animal. You may not want to bother us, you may be embarrassed by your blunders, or you may think it's not our business. When you don't use our friendship, we can't do our job.
Friends are God's way of taking care of me.
"Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" - Book
Surrender is riding the bus in the direction it's going.
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Post by caressa on May 22, 2011 13:15:03 GMT -5
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God is the answer, now what is the problem? Problem with the word 'God?' According to Random House Dictionary--Life, Truth, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, and Principle are all synonymous for 'God.' The above statement could just as easily be 'Life, Truth, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, and Principle are the answers. Now what is the problem?�
Today, I let go of the labels that stand between me and my understanding of God.
"Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" - Book
An alcoholic is an individual who takes the most simple program and works on it until he has eventually reduced it to its most complicated form.
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Post by caressa on May 23, 2011 7:34:45 GMT -5
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There will be times when people around you act like absolute jerks. If they are a jerk and the problem is with them, time will reveal it. Likewise, if you are the jerk and the problem is with you, time will reveal it. Do the next right thing and give time time.
Today, I don't let not a very nice persons rent space in my head.
"Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" - Book
How we treat others is a consequence of the depth of our own spirituality.
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Post by caressa on May 24, 2011 4:52:40 GMT -5
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You may not always know what is right but you sure know what is wrong. Anytime you have to give excuses for why you do what you do, it's wrong.
If I have to explain or excuse it, then I can do without it.
"Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" - Book
In a bar, we got sympathy--as long as our money lasted. In AA, we get understanding for nothing.
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Post by caressa on May 25, 2011 0:18:46 GMT -5
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One thing recovery teaches us, is that you can keep going long after you think you can't. This is because you are stronger than you think. You have the accumulated strength of millions of clean and sober Twelve-Step members to bolster you.
I keep on keep'n on; I keep on trudging.
"Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" - Book
Criticism and finding fault are not spiritual gifts.
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Post by caressa on May 26, 2011 0:53:54 GMT -5
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Relief Lies in Two Four Letter Words that Begin with F: Steps Four and Five. (P 29, Young, Sober, & Free)
I Uncover to Recover in Four and Five.
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Sobriety is not a dress rehearsal.
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Post by caressa on May 27, 2011 3:16:15 GMT -5
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
My sponsor's mistakes become my gifts when I listen.
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We're not against alcohol, we're for sobriety.
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Post by caressa on May 28, 2011 1:30:19 GMT -5
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Living life on life's terms,' just what does this mean to us? It doesn't mean we will get a brownie button for every day we stay abstinent. It simply means life can be tough and we can stay sober if we chose to live by principle.
'Don't you worry none, just take it like it comes, one day at a time.
- Song, One Day at a Time
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Religion is for those who want life after death. Spirituality is for those who want life BEFORE death!
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Post by caressa on May 29, 2011 12:08:42 GMT -5
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To err is human but you need to admit it.
I accept that having all the answers is not the answer.
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Anger is not a solution.
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Post by caressa on May 30, 2011 0:34:02 GMT -5
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Although loving and being loved is an important aspect of balance in our lives�relationships are never the solution to drinking and other drug taking. We sometimes focus on the strong emotion of love from another rather than face loving ourselves by working the program.
Today I 'act as if' I am worth loving.
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All it takes to start a new meeting is a resentment and a coffeepot.
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Post by caressa on May 31, 2011 0:32:43 GMT -5
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It's not your Higher Power's Will that makes you miserable. It's your resistance to HP's Will that causes the damage. Turning it over will set you right again.
God's will is when I turn it over. Self-will is when I've over turned it.
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Law of Sobriety: You can't fall off the floor.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.