Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 5/14

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Awakening

"Alcoholism is a grievous and often fatal malady
of the mind and body.
We have found that these awful conditions invariably
bring on the third phase of our malady.
This is the sickness of the spirit;
a sickness for which there must necessarily
be a spiritual remedy.
We AA's recognize this in the first five words
of Step Twelve.
Those words are:
'Having had a spiritual awakening...'
Here we name the remedy for our threefold sickness
of body, mind, and soul."
Bill W., The Language of the Heart, p. 297

Thought toConsider . .

"When the spiritual malady is overcome,
we straighten out mentally and physically."

Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 64
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Sabotage
"From "Tightrope":
"After a few years, I was a nightly blackout drinker. My lover drank heavily as well, and I began to compare my drinking with his. I argued to myself that I could not have a problem because his drinking was worse than mine at times. In fact, I suggested that he might try A.A. When he did try this Fellowship, I did all I could to undermine his efforts to get sober his recovery would present an obvious, if unacknowledged, threat to my drinking. Eventually, the stress became too much and we broke up, but not before I had succeeded in undermining his recovery."
2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 361




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*~*~*~*[SIZE=style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:]~*^ BigBookQuote^*~*~*~*~*"Everybody knows that those in bad health, and those who seldom play, do not laugh much. So let each family play together or separately as much as their circumstances warrant. We are sure God wants us to be
happy, joyous, and free."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 132~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote

The Individual's Rights

We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which devotes more care to its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's right to think, talk, and act as he wishes. No A.A. can compel another to do anything; nobody can be punished or expelled.
Our Twelve Steps to recovery are suggestions; the Twelve Traditions which guarantee A.A.'s unity contain not a single 'Don't.' They repeatedly say, 'We ought . . .' but never 'You must!
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Though it is traditional that our Fellowship may not coerce anyone, let us not suppose even for an instant that we are not under constraint. Indeed, we are under enormous coercion--the kind that comes in bottles. Our former tyrant, King Alcohol, always stands ready again to clutch us to him.
'Therefore, freedom from alcohol is the great 'must' that has to be achieved, else we go mad or die.'

1. TWELVE AND TWELVE, P. 129
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Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
************************************************** ****************** 12 x 12 Quote "The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide
and your full confidence in the one with whom you share your first
accurate self-survey. Even when you've found the person, it
frequently takes great resolution to approach him or her. No one
ought to say the AA program requires no willpower; here is one place
you may require all you've got. Happily, though, the chances are that
you will be in for a very pleasant surprise. When your mission is
carefully explained, and it is seen by the recipient of your
confidence how helpful he can really be, the conversation will start
easily and will soon become eager. Before long, your listener may
well tell a story or two about himself which will place you even more
at ease. Provided you hold back nothing, your sense of relief will
mount from minute to minute. The dammed-up emotions of years break
out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as soon as they are
exposed. As the pain subsides, a healing tranquillity takes its
place. And when humility and serenity are so combined, something else
of great moment is apt to occur. Many an AA, once agnostic or
atheistic, tells us that it was during this stage of Step Five that
he first actually felt the presence of God. And even those who had
faith already often become conscious of God as they never were
before." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Five, pg. 61)

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