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Post by caressa on Jun 1, 2011 1:15:47 GMT -5
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I got so depressed at being a guru in AA that I came home from a meeting, left the car running in the garage, went in the house wrote three suicide notes, went back out, laid in the back seat of the car. Then I discovered I had to go to the can- I'm not going to be found with wet pants. While I'm there, the phone rings - on my death bed I will answer the phone, I'm nosy. And it was a newcomer in depression - He's interrupting my suicide. Naturally I had to tell him how wonderful life was...So you see they do save your life. - Serenity Sam.
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Post by caressa on Jun 2, 2011 2:37:43 GMT -5
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I drank to feel comfortable with being uncomfortable. - Anon.
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Post by caressa on Jun 3, 2011 4:52:26 GMT -5
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You take alcohol out of my life and living with my mind is like traveling cross country in a van full of eight year olds who have overdosed on sugar.. and none of them like you. - Bob D.
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Post by caressa on Jun 4, 2011 2:58:05 GMT -5
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I was half Irish and half Scot. It was A real dilemma in my life; one half of me wanted to get drunk all the time and the other half didn't want to pay for it. - Tom M.
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Post by caressa on Jun 5, 2011 1:09:15 GMT -5
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I never had it so good. And if I'd had it my way I'd have short-changed myself, because all I wanted out of this deal was to stay out of jail. - Patti O.
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Post by caressa on Jun 6, 2011 3:24:16 GMT -5
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It's amazing how much we can learn after we think we know it all. - Anon.
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Post by caressa on Jun 7, 2011 2:19:56 GMT -5
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People talk about an invisible line that you cross and become an alcoholic. Some of us were born on the other side of that line. - Danny T.
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Post by caressa on Jun 8, 2011 1:45:53 GMT -5
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Robert Louis Stevenson nailed alcoholism with 'Dr. Jekell and Mr. Hyde'. He was either an alcoholic or he did very extensive research. Trip S.
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Post by caressa on Jun 9, 2011 0:08:17 GMT -5
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When I was new, I was sure that what was wrong with me was that I was not loved enough. A lot of people tried but what I didn't know about me, is that there isn't enough. I'm the Black Hole of Lovedom. My little sponsor knew that my problem was I never loved enough. And he knew that I didn't know how to start to love. So he made me do loving things; go pick up members, stand at the door and greet everybody: 'Hi there, I'm Cliff. What's your name - (under breath) like I really give a ...' And somewhere along the way I learned to love newcomers. - Cliff R.
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Post by caressa on Jun 10, 2011 20:43:35 GMT -5
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We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated There is but one course to pursue; We must accept the situation. - Robert E Lee.
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Post by caressa on Jun 11, 2011 18:59:22 GMT -5
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They've got me stretched out - the paramedics who are dedicated to saving your life when you don't want your life saved - and next to the bed are two nuns; one old, one young. The old one walked away, she's had me because I was giving her a lot of lip - I always gave a people a lot of lip when I was the most afraid - but the young nun stayed. She looked down at me, so beautiful. I've come to believe in earth angels. She had on a white habit, and all I could see was her face. Her eyes were a blue as the heavens. And this young nun started to cry over me as she looked down at me, the spiritual being that she was. She had never seen me before. The tears were falling on the covers of that bed. And she said, ' How did you ever let your life get into such a state?' and I heard her. No one had ever asked that before. They'd always told me how I should stop drinking; do this, do that, do this.... - Clara S.
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Post by caressa on Jun 12, 2011 7:51:51 GMT -5
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A lot of alcoholics say: 'Well there's us, and then there's normal people.' Read my lips: There are no normal people. There are just people who haven't shared with you yet. - Ken D
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Post by caressa on Jun 14, 2011 0:56:02 GMT -5
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I was so full of fury and I loathed people but I wanted everybody to like me ...which really creates torque. - Charlie C.
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Post by caressa on Jun 14, 2011 1:06:43 GMT -5
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Detach = Don't Even Try To Change Him/Her. - Anon.
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Post by caressa on Jun 15, 2011 0:24:17 GMT -5
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I'd call him up and say; Norm, my prograam ain't working.' He'd say, 'Yea, why don't you try ours.' - Johnny H.
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Post by caressa on Jun 16, 2011 0:10:00 GMT -5
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should be as happy as kings.
- Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Post by caressa on Jun 17, 2011 5:24:03 GMT -5
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I'm never going to forget about self, but the Big Book tells me that I'm supposed to be of maximum service to God and my fellows - I'm not even mentioned. And in that process, I'm of maximum service when I'm focused on others; folding chairs, emptying ashtrays, making coffee, a commitment at my home group. As it says: 'Our very lives as ex problem drinkers depends on our constant thought of others.' What do they mean by that? They can't possibly mean that we're supposed to constantly think of others. Could they? Who's going to think about me? - Chris C.
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Post by caressa on Jun 18, 2011 2:19:26 GMT -5
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They say there are no 'musts' in AA, that it's a 'suggested program'. That's right. The same way that when you jump out of a plane, it's suggested you take a parachute. Unknown origin.
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Post by caressa on Jun 18, 2011 2:19:53 GMT -5
I call them darn well betters or you will go back out again!
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Post by caressa on Jun 19, 2011 1:08:28 GMT -5
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A sober alcoholic is like a turtle on a fence post - You know it had help. - Anon.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.