Daily Recovery Quotes – September 18
September 18 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we...
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September 19 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear. Whenever men are gathered together in business there will be rivalries...
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September 20 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote We suggest you draw the book to the attention of the doctor who is to attend your patient during treatment. If the book is read the moment the patient is able, while...
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September 21 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote If he is sincerely interested and wants to see you again, ask him to read this book in the interval. After doing that, he must decide for himself whether he wants to...
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September 22 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: ‘Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.’ Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time...
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September 23 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot...
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September 24 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But...
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September 25 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote When, therefore, we speak to you of God, we mean your own conception of God. This applies, too, to other spiritual expressions which you find in this book. – Pg. 47 –...
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September 26 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote So we shall describe some of the mental states that precede a relapse into drinking, for obviously this is the crux of the problem. – Pg. 35 – More About Alcoholism...
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September 27 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote No words can tell of the lonliness and despair I found in that bitter morass of self-pity. Quicksand stretched around me in all directions. I had met my match. I had...
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September 28 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote There is, however, a vast amount of fun about it all. I suppose some would be shocked at our seeming worldliness and levity. But just underneath there is deadly...
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October 3 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote If we have been thorough about our personal inventory, we have written down a lot. We have listed and analyzed our resentments. We have begun to comprehend their...
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November 21 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon. – Pg. 59 – How It Works Hour To Hour – Book –...
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November 22 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote Selfishness – self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on...
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November 23 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote There I humbly offered myself to God, as I then understood Him, to do with me as He would. I placed myself unreservedly under His care and direction. I admitted for...
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AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote Suppose now you are making your second visit to a man. He has read this volume and says he is prepared to go through with the Twelve Steps of the program of recovery. Having had...
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November 27 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote The classification of alcoholics seems most difficult, and in much detail is outside the scope of this book. There are, of course, the psychopaths who are emotionally...
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November 29 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote All these and many others , have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving. This phenomenon, as we have suggested,...
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November 19 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us. If these thoughts occur, they are hazy and readily...
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November 18 AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote As we discovered the principles by which the individual alcoholic could live, so we had to evolve principles by which A.A. groups and A.A. as a whole could survive and...
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