Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
Yesterday, 06:48 AM
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September 22
The world has more depth in...
September 22
The world has more depth in autumn. So, it seems, does my soul.
~Jane Nakken
The earth prepares to rest when autumn comes. Trees shed their leaves, flowers drop their blooms,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2024, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 24
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September 22
Your dreams are real
...
September 22
Your dreams are real
Dreams exist for a reason. They’re meant to get your attention, to captivate your imagination.
So pay attention. Imagine with wild abandon.
Of course...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2024, 06:33 AM
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September 21
Resentments
Nothing on...
September 21
Resentments
Nothing on earth consumes a man more completely as the passion of resentment.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Resentments are among the greatest roadblocks along the route...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-21-2024, 06:30 AM
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September 21
You have what’s necessary
...
September 21
You have what’s necessary
If you can invent an excuse to avoid action, you can also come up with a compelling reason to take that action. When there’s a reason to quit, there’s...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-20-2024, 04:34 AM
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September 20
Faith is the subtle chain which...
September 20
Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.
~Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Surrendering ourselves to a Higher Power is a big step. As addicts, trust has not been one of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-20-2024, 04:31 AM
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Replies: 24
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September 20
Insist on reality
Give up...
September 20
Insist on reality
Give up your illusions. Go forward with your values, your strength, and with objective truth.
It’s easy to pretend to yourself, and to go along with the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2024, 05:51 AM
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September 19
Came to believe that a Power...
September 19
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
~Step Two of Alcoholics Anonymous
The Second Step pushes us to start believing in something other...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-19-2024, 05:39 AM
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Replies: 24
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September 19
Where achievement happens
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September 19
Where achievement happens
How do you accomplish what must be done? Start by getting yourself precisely in the place where you can do it.
To get in shape, go to the gym. To write...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
09-18-2024, 09:30 AM
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You Choose
It's our choice for all of us, no one else is ever going to be able to choose for you. Only we get to choose if we're going to make recovery be in our life, but before any of us get to make this...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-18-2024, 06:41 AM
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September 18
God offers to every mind its...
September 18
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Denial is sneaky and hard to detect. Like a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-18-2024, 06:35 AM
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Views: 4,941
September 18
Good things are possible
...
September 18
Good things are possible
Good things are possible for you. Even with your situation as it is, even with what you’ve been through, good things are possible.
There are aspects of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-17-2024, 06:24 AM
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September 17
As a matter of fact, prayer is...
September 17
As a matter of fact, prayer is the only real action in the full sense of the word, because prayer is the only thing that changes one's character.
~Emmet Fox
Erica Jong has said...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-17-2024, 06:22 AM
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September 17
Winning and losing
Your...
September 17
Winning and losing
Your wins and losses are important, yet the integrity with which you act matters even more. Keep that in mind when seeking the victories and recovering from...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-16-2024, 02:13 AM
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September 16
Lying is done with words, and...
September 16
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
~Adrienne Rich
Most of us are fundamentally honest people who would not deliberately tell an untruth. But there are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-16-2024, 02:11 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,941
September 16
A little difference
Make a...
September 16
A little difference
Make a little bit of a difference. Do it again and again.
Know where you desire to go. Proceed in that direction, one small step at a time.
A sure way to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-15-2024, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 11,136
September 22
Daily Reflections
A...
September 22
Daily Reflections
A "LIMITLESS LODE"
Like a gaunt prospector, belt drawn in over the last
ounce of food, our pick struck gold. Joy at our
release from a lifetime of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-15-2024, 06:35 AM
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September 15
"We admitted we were...
September 15
"We admitted we were powerless..."
Accepting that we cannot control other people's drinking is a huge step. We want what is best for them, don't we? Can't they see that? What we...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-14-2024, 10:22 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,941
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-14-2024, 06:13 AM
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Views: 7,963
September 14
Reflection for the Day
I...
September 14
Reflection for the Day
I can attain real dignity, importance, and individuality only by a dependence on a Power that is great and good, beyond anything I can imagine or understand....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-14-2024, 06:09 AM
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September 15
Changing your mind
You’re...
September 15
Changing your mind
You’re allowed to change your mind. It can actually be a refreshing thing to do, not to mention helpful, productive, and insightful.
It won’t kill you to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-14-2024, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,941
September 14
The hope you feel
Hope for...
September 14
The hope you feel
Hope for the best. Then put some real, effective action behind that hope.
Let hope serve as a starting point rather than a last resort. Draw energy from hope,...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
09-13-2024, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 0
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The Common Ground
Being in Recovery has an admission price that we all have to pay, or won't be willing to pay. The choice is always ours to make, and has been left up to each of us to make for ourselves. It's our own...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-12-2024, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 11,136
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-12-2024, 05:29 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 11,136
September 20
Daily Reflections
H.P. AS...
September 20
Daily Reflections
H.P. AS GUIDE
See to it that your relationship with Him is right,
and great events will come to pass for you and
countless others. This is the Great Fact for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-12-2024, 05:28 AM
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Replies: 29
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September 19
Daily Reflections
...
September 19
Daily Reflections
ACCEPTANCE
We admitted we couldn't lick alcohol with our own
remaining resources, and so we accepted the further
fact that dependence upon a Higher Power...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-12-2024, 05:13 AM
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September 12
Holding on and letting go
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September 12
Holding on and letting go
We had a great deal of tenacity, except that we were holding on to destructive behaviors and attitudes: resentments and self-pity, drugs and other bad...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-12-2024, 05:10 AM
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Replies: 24
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September 12
Inspiration and humility
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September 12
Inspiration and humility
Work yourself into a heated state of inspiration. Then splash yourself with the chilled water of humility.
Yes, you can dream big and you can make...
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
09-11-2024, 07:01 AM
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-11-2024, 06:55 AM
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September 11
Owning Your Recovery Patchwork ...
September 11
Owning Your Recovery Patchwork
It's essential, as individuals, that we truly believe that our chosen recovery pathway and patchwork is the very best one for us. If we don't, we’ll...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-11-2024, 06:53 AM
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September 11
Wondrous reality
Nothing...
September 11
Wondrous reality
Nothing can fully substitute for firsthand experience. Nothing can equal the value of face to face interaction.
It can be less time consuming and more...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-10-2024, 05:29 AM
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September 10
Victory is won not in miles but...
September 10
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.
~Louis L'Amour
How much fuller each day feels when we can be patient...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-10-2024, 05:25 AM
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September 10
Value along the way
Speed...
September 10
Value along the way
Speed matters, but direction matters more. In most cases, getting there faster is not as important as getting there well.
The value embedded in your chosen...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-09-2024, 07:32 AM
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September 9
Fed with the same food, hurt...
September 9
Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-09-2024, 07:30 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,941
September 9
Intentional attention
What...
September 9
Intentional attention
What you’re paying attention to directly influences what you’re investing your life in. Could you be making more beneficial investments?
Attention uses...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
09-08-2024, 10:25 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,011
What We're All Drawn To
Recovery is not the usual success story that we've all become accustomed to of living happily ever after. On the contrary, what we're all drawn to seems to be just opposite to this. It's not that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-08-2024, 06:11 AM
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Replies: 22
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September 8
When I look back on all these...
September 8
When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-07-2024, 09:58 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 11,136
September 18
Daily Reflections
LOVED...
September 18
Daily Reflections
LOVED BACK TO RECOVERY
Our whole treasured philosophy of self-sufficiency had
to be cast aside. This had not been done with old-fashioned
willpower; it was...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-07-2024, 09:57 AM
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Replies: 29
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September 17
Daily Reflections
FREEDOM...
September 17
Daily Reflections
FREEDOM FROM FEAR
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot,
then we found we could live at peace with ourselves
and show others who still suffered...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-07-2024, 09:56 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 11,136
September 16
Daily Reflections
WE...
September 16
Daily Reflections
WE STAND--OR FALL--TOGETHER
. . . no society of men and women ever had a more urgent need for
continuous effectiveness and permanent unity. We alcoholics see...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-07-2024, 09:56 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 11,136
September 15
Daily Reflections
A NEW...
September 15
Daily Reflections
A NEW LIFE
Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that.
It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous . . . .
Life will mean something at last....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-07-2024, 05:23 AM
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Replies: 22
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September 7
AA Thought for the Day
On a...
September 7
AA Thought for the Day
On a dark night, the bright lights of the corner tavern look mighty inviting. Inside, there seems to be warmth and good cheer. But we don’t stop to think that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-07-2024, 05:17 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,941
September 7
People will notice
It would...
September 7
People will notice
It would be great if the values that you treasure were widely supported and encouraged by others. Yet even if very few other people share your values, you can...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-06-2024, 05:33 AM
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Replies: 22
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September 6
Who forces time is pushed back...
September 6
Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side.
~The Talmud
We are impatient for results. Upon entering a program of recovery, going without a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-06-2024, 05:32 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,941
September 6
Vigorous supporter
What can...
September 6
Vigorous supporter
What can stop you most effectively is you. What can stop you most routinely is you.
Fortunately you don’t have to let that happen. You have control over your...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-05-2024, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 7,963
September 5
We are giving birth to...
September 5
We are giving birth to ourselves. Let's be midwives to one another through this difficult, yet exhilarating, process.
~Dudley Martineau
Helping each other survive the traumas of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-05-2024, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,941
September 5
Upward spiral
Take the...
September 5
Upward spiral
Take the world as it is and add the value of your effort and love to it. Embrace the moment when it comes and give meaning to it.
Accept what exists and serve as...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-04-2024, 01:36 PM
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Replies: 22
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-04-2024, 06:53 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 7,963
September 4
It is not true that life is one...
September 4
It is not true that life is one **** thing after another - it is one **** thing over and over.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay
If there's one thing you can say for addicted people, it's...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
09-03-2024, 09:58 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,196
Some Of The Differences
There's something different about being here in recovery that we're all aware of when we all first get here. It's so obvious that we all can sense it, but whatever this is, none of us are sure at...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
09-03-2024, 09:58 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 11,136
September 14
Daily Reflections
PEACE OF...
September 14
Daily Reflections
PEACE OF MIND
Do we lay the matter before our sponsor or spiritual adviser,
earnestly asking God's help and guidance--meanwhile resolving
to do the right...
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