Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Today, 07:15 AM
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November 21
I learn that safety is where we...
November 21
I learn that safety is where we make it
~Ekua Omosupe
We each have different images of safety. Some associate safety with having a secure job, enough money (however we define...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Today, 07:14 AM
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November 21
Fill the voids
Because of...
November 21
Fill the voids
Because of silence, sound has an environment in which to exist. When emptiness abounds, fulfillment becomes possible.
Any time you sense emptiness in your world,...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
Yesterday, 11:04 AM
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Finding Success
Finding the program of recovery by whatever means all of us have is a success for all of us who are new, but very few of us that are new will think this way. Having this program of recovery will be a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-19-2024, 06:11 AM
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November 19
Reflection for the Day
The...
November 19
Reflection for the Day
The Twelve Steps teach us that, as faith grows, so does security. The terrifying fear of nothingness begins to subside. As we work the program, we find that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-19-2024, 06:08 AM
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November 19
Rise up to reality
You are...
November 19
Rise up to reality
You are stronger than you were. And in large part, the disappointments have prompted that added strength.
When life is going well, it’s easy to get complacent....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-18-2024, 04:09 AM
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November 18
Addiction Is Cunning, Baffling,...
November 18
Addiction Is Cunning, Baffling, and Powerful
I never said no to anything in the service, but alcohol was my primary drug of choice. I got deployed to Afghanistan in 2002. That’s...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-18-2024, 04:07 AM
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November 18
Treasures in difficult places
...
November 18
Treasures in difficult places
Go where you face the possibility of failure. That’s where you learn, where you improve, where you grow stronger.
Go where you feel a little bit of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-17-2024, 06:57 AM
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November 17
Enjoying reality
Cloud Nine...
November 17
Enjoying reality
Cloud Nine does not compare to the joys and beauty of a clean life. In fact, Cloud Nine is opposed to our new way of life. It's a fantasy, a trip, a high - like...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-16-2024, 03:05 AM
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Replies: 24
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November 17
Time to begin
You know you...
November 17
Time to begin
You know you can be better, you know you can give more. Challenge yourself to do so.
It’s easy to complain, to blame, to dream up excuses, to feel sorry for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-16-2024, 02:49 AM
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November 16
Actually doing
Intentions...
November 16
Actually doing
Intentions arise in your heart and in your head. But if that’s as far as they go, they’ll eventually fade away to nothing.
Don’t keep those intentions trapped...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-15-2024, 07:11 AM
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November 15
Self-importance is our greatest...
November 15
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-15-2024, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 24
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November 15
Do not relent
This is...
November 15
Do not relent
This is possible, this can be done. Go to work, do not relent.
Now is your starting point. Stretching out in front of you is your opportunity.
Utilize what you...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-14-2024, 04:44 AM
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November 14
SERVICE - A beautiful word...
November 14
SERVICE - A beautiful word fallen upon bad days.
~Claude McKay
Service is really a beautiful word. Service means respect. When we serve others, we're part of the human race. We...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
11-13-2024, 10:47 AM
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A Friend
It is said in recovery that we've all become our own worst enemy, very few of us when new to recovery can see how we have. This is because all of us have become so accustomed to doing all the things...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-13-2024, 06:13 AM
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November 21
Daily Reflections
A CLASSIC...
November 21
Daily Reflections
A CLASSIC PRAYER
Lord, make me a channel for thy peace - that where
there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there
is wrong. I may bring the spirit of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-13-2024, 06:02 AM
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November 13
A person's best ally is someone...
November 13
A person's best ally is someone who takes care of herself.
~Susan Clarke
It was hard to learn how to walk if she couldn't fall down, but the girl was too little to be able to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-13-2024, 05:43 AM
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November 13
Work with what you have
You...
November 13
Work with what you have
You can’t make everything perfect. No one else can make your life perfect.
But you can make the choice to live well despite the imperfections. Whatever...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-11-2024, 03:19 AM
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Replies: 20
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November 11
Conscience is God's presence in...
November 11
Conscience is God's presence in man.
~Emanuel Swedenborg
As we mature, our conscience grows, and vice versa. We follow a principle that directs us to promptly admit when we are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-11-2024, 02:38 AM
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Replies: 24
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November 11
Amazing truth
Are you...
November 11
Amazing truth
Are you hiding inside a comfortable cocoon of assumptions? Or are you venturing boldly into the amazement of this moment?
Possibilities surge into reality, ready to...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
11-10-2024, 10:16 AM
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The Healing
We all want to heal but from what and how are the questions for all of us when we all come into recovery. Our problem for all of us is within us with little hope of any of us being able to have any...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-10-2024, 05:43 AM
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Replies: 29
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November 20
Daily Reflections
"THY...
November 20
Daily Reflections
"THY WILL, NOT MINE"
. . . when making specific requests, it will be well
to add to each one of them this qualification. ." . . .
if it be Thy will."
TWELVE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-10-2024, 05:43 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,732
November 19
Daily Reflections
"I WAS...
November 19
Daily Reflections
"I WAS SLIPPING FAST"
We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions
of dealing with the realities of life, . . . . So it
isn't surprising that we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-10-2024, 05:42 AM
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Replies: 29
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November 18
Daily Reflections
A SAFETY...
November 18
Daily Reflections
A SAFETY NET
Occasionally. . . We are seized with a rebellion so sickening that we
simply won't pray. When these things happen we should not think too
ill of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-10-2024, 05:42 AM
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Replies: 29
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November 17
Daily Reflections
...
November 17
Daily Reflections
OVERCOMING LONELINESS
Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by
loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people
began to cut us off, nearly...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-10-2024, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 20
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November 10
All are related.
~Lakota...
November 10
All are related.
~Lakota Saying
We are all related. What a powerful idea. Every living thing and every part of nature was made by the same Higher Power that made us. We are all...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-09-2024, 07:37 AM
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Replies: 24
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November 10
Purposeful focus
Don’t beat...
November 10
Purposeful focus
Don’t beat yourself up for the time you’ve wasted, because that would waste even more. Just decide what good, productive, meaningful use you can make of your time...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-09-2024, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 20
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November 9
I find it awfully hard to give...
November 9
I find it awfully hard to give myself a break. I don't know where that attitude comes from.
~Walker I.
"I can't. I shouldn't. It's my fault." These self-abasing and self-defeating...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-07-2024, 03:09 AM
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Replies: 20
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November 7
Embrace the journey.
~Saying...
November 7
Embrace the journey.
~Saying heard in Twelve Step meetings
Our goals inspire us, and our plans help us take appropriate steps toward bringing our dreams and visions to fruition....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-07-2024, 02:27 AM
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Replies: 24
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November 7
When you’re mistaken
...
November 7
When you’re mistaken
Discovering you’ve been mistaken is not pleasant. But it’s a whole lot better than remaining oblivious to the mistake.
Only when you know something is wrong,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-06-2024, 04:13 AM
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Replies: 29
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November 16
Daily Reflections
A DAILY...
November 16
Daily Reflections
A DAILY REPRIEVE
What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual
condition.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-06-2024, 04:12 AM
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Replies: 29
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November 15
Daily Reflections
VITAL...
November 15
Daily Reflections
VITAL SUSTENANCE
Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without
it than we would refuse air, food, sunshine. And for the same...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-06-2024, 04:11 AM
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Replies: 29
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November 14
Daily Reflections
INTUITION...
November 14
Daily Reflections
INTUITION AND INSPIRATION
. . . . we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it
easy. We don't struggle.
ALCOHOLICS...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-06-2024, 03:54 AM
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Replies: 20
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November 6
Our Higher Power is in charge.
...
November 6
Our Higher Power is in charge.
It's such a relief to give up our obsession to control, once we learn how. As we do to establish any new routine, we have to practice. In this case, we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-06-2024, 02:48 AM
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Replies: 24
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November 6
Reliable reality
Some things...
November 6
Reliable reality
Some things change from day to day, and give life a fascinating, though perhaps frightening array of new flavors. Most things, though, are the same as they were the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-04-2024, 09:50 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,571
Good November the 4th my
Dear Tammy, I just...
Good November the 4th my
Dear Tammy, I just read your message
about you not feeling well.
I will most definitely put you and
your husband on my prayer list.
What is your husband name?
Father...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-04-2024, 05:19 AM
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Replies: 20
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November 4
You Deserve to Treat Yourself...
November 4
You Deserve to Treat Yourself Better
As a veteran, you’ve done what countless millions of other people cannot or will not do, and that is serve this country. And you deserve the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-04-2024, 05:07 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,571
November 4
Live with competence
There...
November 4
Live with competence
There are things you are competent at doing. Challenge that competence, improve that competence, expand on it, repeatedly put it to meaningful use.
Be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-04-2024, 05:06 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,571
November 4
Live with competence
There...
November 4
Live with competence
There are things you are competent at doing. Challenge that competence, improve that competence, expand on it, repeatedly put it to meaningful use.
Be...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
11-03-2024, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 980
The Hurting
We all are so full of hurt and so worn out by having to carry it with us all the time by the time we all get to recovery, but very few of us have any idea why we are hurting the way all of us are. We...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-03-2024, 04:40 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,732
November 13
Daily Reflections
LOOKING...
November 13
Daily Reflections
LOOKING OUTWARD
We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no requests for
ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-03-2024, 04:39 AM
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Replies: 29
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November 12
Daily Reflections
MORNING...
November 12
Daily Reflections
MORNING THOUGHTS
Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still
sick.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164
For many years I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-03-2024, 04:39 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,732
November 11
Daily Reflections
...
November 11
Daily Reflections
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will
be well with us, here and hereafter.
TWELVE STEPS AND...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-03-2024, 04:38 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,732
November 10
Daily Reflections
A SENSE...
November 10
Daily Reflections
A SENSE OF BELONGING
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging
that comes to us.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-03-2024, 04:31 AM
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Replies: 20
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November 3
Avoiding fights
The program...
November 3
Avoiding fights
The program encourages us to stop fighting against people and things. In fighting, our principles get blurred and it gets harder to think, so we have trouble doing...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-02-2024, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,449
November 2
Addressing Our Shadows
No...
November 2
Addressing Our Shadows
No matter how far you think you have fallen at times in your life, you are not an evil person, not even if you believe that some of the things you did in your...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-01-2024, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,571
Its nice to be nice.
Happy November my ...
Its nice to be nice.
Happy November my
Dear friend Tammy.
Thank God for getting us though the
month of October safe and sound
one day at a time.
I pray that this month will be full of peace,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-01-2024, 07:32 AM
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Replies: 20
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Today's Thought - November
November 1
If you don’t take chances, you can’t do anything in life.
~Michael Spinks
Many of us have done things that, in looking back, seem insane or dangerous. We may have had friends or...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-01-2024, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,571
Daily Motivator - November
November 1
Nice and polite
It’s great to be nice, to be polite. Everyone prefers to interact with other people who are polite.
Yet when you hide or even deny the truth in the interest of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-30-2024, 05:36 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,732
November 9
Daily Reflections
STEPPING...
November 9
Daily Reflections
STEPPING INTO THE SUNLIGHT
But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much
can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into
the sun.
AS BILL SEES...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
10-30-2024, 05:35 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,732
November 8
Daily Reflections
AN...
November 8
Daily Reflections
AN INDIVIDUAL ADVENTURE
Meditation is something which can always be further developed. It has no boundaries,
either of width or height. Aided by such...
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