welcome home

[stickmonkey]

Old Time Recovery


It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it.

If you're looking to have an image in NA, look around at the meetings
you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress.

An addict is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating.

Recovery is the leading cause of relapse.

A treatment center is where you go and pay $15,000 to find out that
NA meetings are free.

This is a 'One Day at a Time' program. If you are clean today, you
are tied for first place in NA.

If using is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy user.
If work is interfering with your using, you're probably an addict.

I often obsessively pursue feeling good, no matter how bad it makes
me feel.

When I was new, I didn't think I had any obsessions until I started
thinking about it. Then it was all I could think about.

How come if drugs kill millions of brain cells, they never killed the
ones that made me want to use?

If God were small enough to be understood, He wouldn't be big enough
to be God!

If you want to quit using, you are going to have to quit using.

Newcomer: How do I know how many meetings I should attend each week?
Old-timer: Gradually cut back until you get high. Then you'll know.

I would rather go through life clean, believing I am an addict, than
go through life high, trying to
convince myself that I am not an addict.

Resentments are like stray cats: if you don't feed them, they'll go
away.

Before I came into NA, I was dead, but I did not know enough to lie
down.

I used when I was happy. I used when I was unhappy. Actually, I am a
reason to use.

You don't have to be sick to want to get well. But if you don't want
to get well, you ARE sick.

I can't do His will my way.

In order to change the way we feel we need to change the way we act.

There is only one way to coast, and that is down hill.

The good news is you get your emotions back; the bad news is you get
your emotions back.

All we ask is that you completely change your attitude as soon as
possible.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but
whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

[stickmonkey]

Pass the message, not the disease.

Nature has a way of compensating for weaknesses, which is why addicts
have big
mouths.

Some recovering addicts go through life standing at the complaint
counter.

I try to take one day at a time, but lately several days have attacked
me at
once.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Life is like wrestling a gorilla. You don't stop when you get tired; you
stop
when the gorilla gets tired.

I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow
isn't
looking too good either.

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

You may be an addict if you decide to procrastinate but never get around
to it.

I have a built-in forgetter.

My mind is like a Home Depot store. Everything's in there, I just can't
find it.

My family is a riot. In fact, they put the "fun" in dysfunctional

Lead us not into temptation. I can find it myself.

A treatment centre is where you go and pay $15,000 to find out that N.A.
meetings are free.

Ask an addict what time it is and he'll tell you how to build a clock.

There's nothing like the prospect of a hanging to focus a man's mind.

I believe sometimes God will not do for me what I can do for myself.

Please be patient -- God isn't finished with me yet.

I am unique, just like everybody else.

Drugs are for people who can't handle reality.

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God
talks to
us, we're schizophrenic?

My best friend became my worst enemy.

If you keep one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're just
pissing
all over today.

When my insides match my outside, I'm practicing a good program.

My first Higher Power was "Howard," as in "Our Father, who art in
Heaven, Howard be thy name."

Chairperson at meeting asks: "Anybody from out of town? Out of state?
Out of their minds?"

A winner is a loser who keeps trying.

I don't always know what God's will is for me, but I always know what
it's not.

I didn't get clean to be miserable.

I didn't experiment with alcohol and drugs. I was in advanced research
and
development.

Are you walking towards a drug or away from one?

Got diarrhea? Try willpower.

Yeah, I guess I used to suppress my emotions. Every time someone asked,
"How ya doin'?" I'd reply, "I'll get back to you as soon as I find out."

My sponsor tells me I'm making progress. Before I used to think suicide.
Now I'm
thinking homicide.

Relationships will do to you what drugs couldn't.

I was the most even-tempered guy in the world -- I was mad all the time.

If you don't deal with your feelings, they'll deal with you.

Overhead in an Nar-Anon meeting: My husband's right where he needs to
be. He's in prison.

Sponsor to pigeon: I love you, God loves you, and there's not a d**n
thing you
can do about it.

I had three sponsors: HBO, Cinemax and Showtime.

I did my using from Park Avenue to park bench.

Why did I start going to N.A. meetings? In rehab all they had was decaf.
At
N.A., I could drink regular coffee.

On relapse: when you get run over by a train, which kills you, the
locomotive or
the caboose?

Sponsor to new pigeon: Please don't go in your head alone. It's a
dangerous
neighbourhood.

I don't need to beat myself up. There are enough people willing to do it
for me.

The reason I got my last DUI was I ran out of gas. Although the needle
on the
gas gauge pointed to E, the needle on the denial gauge was pointing to
F.

If you think it's lonely at the top, it's not too much better at the
bottom.
I listen like only the dying can.

If your ass falls off, put it in a paper bag and take it to a meeting.

There's safety in numbers, one through twelve.

An ounce of prevention is worth a gallon of relapse.

My disease is out in the parking lot, doing push up's getting
stronger--just
waiting for me to slip.

For me, my worst day clean is not better than my best day using. But my
worst
day using is better than my last day high.

If you have two addictions, throw two bucks in the basket.

ANGEL didn't get that way by eating too d**n much Chocolate ice cream.

Without getting spiritual, I am a Christian.

Before, it was so many women, so little time. Now, it's so many
character
defects, so little time.

If my brain didn't need me for transportation, it would have killed me a
long
time ago.

What colour is a chameleon on a mirror

When I start wondering if everything's okay, it's probably not.

If hanging around N.A. doesn't work, try hanging out inside N.A.

If you really want to stay clean, you will find a way. If not, you will
find an
excuse.

God grant me patience. Right now.

Following the collapse of a member's chair at a meeting: Hi, my name is
Bob, and
I'm powerless over gravity...

My sponsor says I'm trying. Very trying.

Shared by fiftyish N.A. member: I saw this was a teen meeting, and I
figured I
was emotionally ready.

Gossip, rumours, backbiting, loose tongues, verbal altercations:
sometimes N.A.
meetings are like the corner bar, without the alcohol.

Try our "20/20 Vision Plan." Come 20 minutes before the meeting, stay 20
minutes after, and see if you can't connect with some people with clean
time.

HALT KISS & TELL: If you're hungry, eat. If you're angry, dump it at a
meeting. If you're lonely, go to a meeting. If you're tired, sleep.

If you like everyone in Narcotics Anonymous, you're not going to enough
meetings.

"To Employers": My boss is an ADDICT and an not a very nice person. I'm self-employed.

Don't try to clear away the wreckage of the future.

My brain said more, but my body said enough!

When the student is ready, the teacher appears.

These guys offered me steps. I needed a ladder to get out of hell.

I moved myself between a dog and a fire hydrant.

My name is Steve, and I'm an addict. The topic is humility? I'll
pass....

A relentless bastard has been torturing me, and that bastard is Me!

Life started when I stopped.

It takes time to get your brains out of hock.

Bring the body to N.A. and the mind eventually follows.

My sense of reality has calluses. Insanity is normal for me.

When I was drinking and drugging, I didn't know the difference between
sandpaper and toilet paper.

In N.A., stand by the coffee pots. It's a good way to meet people.

Today, fear alone won't keep me clean, but for a newcomer, it's not a
bad place
to start.

Today there's still a monkey on my back. He's just sleeping, and real
easy to
wake up.

Addicts are in a class by themselves. Everyone else has graduated.

My ex-wife holds me responsible for most of our marital problems. Proves
how
much she knows--I was never home.

An addict is a man who is a legend in his own mind.

The position for the God job was filled a long time ago.Live and Let
Live. Just not near me.

Addicts end up in one of three houses: the Big House, the Bug House, or
the Ice
House.

The people I have in my life today are merely on loan from my Higher
Power.

Short version of the Serenity Prayer: "Lighten up."

At the start of meetings we always ask, "Is there anybody new or coming
back?"
We should also ask, "Is there anybody old and going out?"

If I'm not aware of my character defects, they don't count.

If you live on the edge of the program, you might fall off

I had a vision problem--I couldn't see going to meetings.

I was a victim of my biggest character defect: self-pity

As a sales and marketing man, I started looking for the loopholes in the
program. I especially liked the part that said, "We are not saints...

Changing from heroin to alcohol was like switching deck chairs on the
Titanic.

When I came into this program, I was sued, reused and pursued.

Stay on the tracks when the train is coming, and you will get flattened.

Once you pick up a drug, the steps are totally bewildering.

Certain addicts non-stop talkers can be a constant source of earitation
at
meetings.

Remember we're all in the biggest room of them all. The room for
improvement.