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Boo!
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taken awhile ago of me walking up Glastonbury Tor -- Edited by Badger at 10:07, 2005-11-16
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Quote sharing.
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We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. Enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.""
"Learn to get in touch with the silence...
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Today
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There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is YESTERDAY with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. YESTERDAY has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in t...
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AA wisdom.......preparing me for the promises
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Wisdom for Today When I first came into the program, I was overwhelmed by the thought of never drinking or using drugs again. The thoughts of "forever" seemed like too much to handle. Fortunately, I learned quickly that all I needed to do was stay focused on today. There was nothing I could do about al...
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language of letting go....victim trap
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The Victim Trap
The belief that life has to be hard and difficult in the belief that makes a martyr.We can change our negative beliefs about life, and whether we have the power to stop our pain and take care of ourselves.We aren't helpless. We can solve our problems. We do have power - not to change or...
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Another Big Step
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Step Five "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."
All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five. But scarcely any S...
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20 Days today
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Hey-
So it's been 20 days today without a drink or drug- Thank you God. Again, lots of meetings and sticking close to recovered/recovering alcoholics and addicts, who are an incredible bunch.
I have received many gifts already the past 3 weeks. Just trying to help myself, receive help, and help o...
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It's all I've got......
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Living life on life's terms. Wow! Some days that's a tough one. Human nature of the female kind wants me to able to "fix" everything for everyone. Learning that I can't has been one of the biggest obstacles I'm having to overcome. Some days all I can do is ask God for help. Not "help me do this...
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Wednesday
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Rigidity is prevented most of the time as love and compassion mesh us into tolerant human beings. --Kaethe S. Crawford
Looking outward with love, offering it freely to our friends and family, makes fluid, flowing, and fertile our existence. Each expression of love engenders more love, keep...
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Past and future
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"French mathmetician and philosopher Pascal once said: 'Let each man examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future. We scarcely ever thing of the present, and when we think of it, it is only to take light from it to arrange the future...So we never live, but...
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Buckeyebear
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Welcome to the board Buckeye.----great to have yu here. Im sure everyone else, feels the same way.
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Daily Reflection Nov 15
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Healing
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The Eighth Step is talking about a change of heart, a healing change.
This attitude can begin a great chain of repair and healing in our relationships with others and ourselves. It means we become willing to let go of our hard heartedness -- one of the greatest blocks to our ability to give and recei...
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life is kicking me in the butt...but its prayer over 20 proof
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Hope for Today - November 15
When I heard "Let Go and Let God" for the first time, it didn't make sense to me. Let go of what? And let God do what? The little I did understand was the futility of my efforts to try to control other people, places, and things. Al-Anon told me I could turn m...
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AA thought....God DOES have me covered
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A.A. Thought for the Day
I am less sensitive and my feelings are less easily hurt. I no longer take myself so seriously. It didn't used to take much to insult me, to feel that I had been slighted or left on the outside. What happens to me now is not so important. One cause of our drinking was that we could...
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Iain
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I danced on a Friday when the sky turned black It's hard to dance with the devil on your back,
I met Iain in the autumn after I left high school and we were inseperable, closer than brother`s, loved the same music had a passion for motorbikes spaggetti westerns and horror films he got me my first real job...
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good bye
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after seeing this post i have deciced to leave this forum. it too easy for people to access and get into personal issues. thats not why im here to have something else to worry about. i love u all and god bless, good bye wagon
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Some AA Sayings
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The steps keep us from suicide; the traditions keep us from homicide.
Let us love you until you learn to love yourself.
Isolation is the dark room where we develop our 'negatives'
If your spinning your wheels, try getting out of the driver's seat.
If your ass falls off, pick it up, put it in a pap...
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wondering the purpose of this.....
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~*~*~*~*~*~Post deleted by John~*~*~*~*~*
Any further post such as this could result in the posting party being banned from our board.
John F. -- Edited by John at 08:19, 2005-11-17
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"God guide me in my recovery"
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November 15 Letting Go
"Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live."Basic Text p. 25
How do we begin the process of letting our Higher Power guide our lives? When we seek advice about situations that trouble us, we often find that our Higher Power works through others. Wh...
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God grant me...............
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You are reading from God Grant Me . . . We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD There’s a good reason that one of the slogans we use most in recovery is this one: Think. We are alwa...
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Hazelton
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There are two benefits from recovery: we have short-term gains and long-term gains.
The short-term gains are the things we can do today that help us feel better immediately.
We can wake up in the morning, read for a few minutes in our meditation book, and feel lifted. We can work a Step a...
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AA reflection....gee i have been forgetting step 11
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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 ANONYMOUS, p. 86 I invest my time in what I truly love. Step Eleven is a discipline that allows me and my Higher Power to be together...
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Daily Reflections Nov 14
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INTUITION AND INSPIRATION
 
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sweet child o`mine
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She's got a smile that it seems to me Reminds me of childhood memories Where everything Was as fresh as the bright blue sky Now and then when I see her face She takes me away to that special place And if I'd stare too long I'd probably break down and cry She's got eyes of the bluest skies As if they thought of ra...
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Monday PM
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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
'Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you creat...
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We are worthy!
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Happy Monday, everyone. How goes it?
Last night's meeting once again reinforced my resolute conviction that we, as recovering alcoholics, are not somehow second-class citizens. There was a newcomer there, on his fourth day of sobreity, very humble, with (literally) hat in hand....
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Rick
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Got your email Bud.
Im no authority on this stuff--and if Im perfectly honest ...know very little..but I will share..
People like to lay guilt trips on other people re their crap......Ive done it.
Then...theres also the blame game...and thats another book..in itself.
Was in a situation.....
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YOU HAVE A PURPOSE !
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Pray to God, but row to shore. --Russian proverb
As each of us gets in touch with the specific ways to serve, it is tempting to judge the importance of our work by comparing it to someone else's achievements. And when that person or group earns more money, receives more praise and recognit...
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Friendship and community are, first of all, inner qualities
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. --Henri J. M. Nouwen
Many of us mistakenly search outside ourselves for answers. We feel small inside and not very powerful. Many of us have tried to change our lives by affecting the people around us. Naturally, when we think of making friends, we assume we would start by getting a frie...
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Overcomming Resentment
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Dealing with resentment and being able to forgive others is a quality which takes a great deal of grace and maturity. The important thing to remember is that bitterness is a poison which harms you far more than the person who has upset you. So working toward forgiveness is a positive act not only for t...
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Daily Reflections Nov. 13
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AA thought..who am i to judge ANYone??
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A.A. Thought for the Day
Who am I to judge other people? Have I proved by my great success in life that I know all the answers? Exactly the opposite. Until I came into A.A., my life could be called a failure. I made all the mistakes one could make. I took all the wrong roads there were to take. On the basis...
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how r things in my zoo? monkey still in the cage.you have a great day!!! god bless wagon
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The Promises - (again).
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Chris got me thinking ......... I've heard The Promises read so many times at meetings, I realize, sometimes, I'm not really listening, my mind wanders. So, thought I'd post them for anyone else who, like me, can become easily complacent or distracted.
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HEY PHIL
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WELCOME BACK
YES I'M SOMEWHAT STAYING OUT OF TROUBLE******KINDA IN THE MIDDLE OF IT---------
MY DAUGHTER LEFT HER ABUSSIVE MAN**HELPING HER GET AN APARTMENT READY FOR HER. BETTER YET GETTING ONE READY!! BEEN KINDA NUTS HERE --PHONE CALLS --CARS TURNING AROUND IN THE DRIVEWAY, ETC--HO...
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When I grow up........
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When I was a little kid, barely old enough to walk, I used to dream of the day that I would grow up and be an alcoholic. As my life progressed, I longed for the time when I would be able to crash cars and almost kill myself and other people. When I was a teenager and beginning my career as an alcoholic, I loved le...
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Tipsy
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Just a thought;
James Frey, addict/alcoholic, author of "A Million Pieces". He's been clean and sober over 13 yrs and didn't do it thru AA. Or James Christopher's book, How to Stay Sober: Recovery Without Religion. Christopher describes his own "recovery without religion." He foc...
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morning music and gratitude
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I;ve been starting my morning routine, readings, breakfast, etc, while listening to this streaming baroque site-
http://www.bach-radio.com/onair.php
Very serene way to start the day! It is nice to be clean and sober, and able to enjoy this sort of thing.
I'm also feeling very ...
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I guess I just don't want it bad enough
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I've abandoned the idea of "faith" for too long, I cant deal with turning over my will and my life to some mystical higher power. I don't want to spend the rest of my life struggling and fighting for the scraps of some elusive happiness and fleeting sense of peace and serenity. I dont want to be some religi...
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Change of plans...
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Well, one day at a time...my plans to go to the city for the AA Gratitude meeting have changed, so I will not be going. I'm okay with not going, not so thrilled about what I'll be doing instead but will grin and have a good time anyway, that's my choice today.I would have loved to spent time wit...
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thought.........
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God grant me the laughter to help me see the past with perspective, face the future with hope, and celebrate today--- without taking myself too seriously.
God, grant me the laughter to help me see the past with perspective, face the future with hope, and celebrate today--- without taking my...
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i am POWERLESS
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You are reading from God Grant Me . . . Turn your wounds into wisdom. OPRAH WINFREY We’ve all been hurt. We all carry scars from the healing of wounds—big ones and small ones. In early recovery, we think about those wounds and how we got them and what we might have done differently if we could do it all ove...
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what happened to LIVE and LET live????
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hey all, i wrote this on the end of my *justice* post, and really should have done a new post on it........geeeeez can i just work my program the best way that is best for me?????? or have the "sugesstions" now become RULES???????
below is what i wrote in respo...
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Just Sharing for Today
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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if...
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Hey eh?
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Back in the saddle. How we all doin? (Smile)
EASY DOES IT ....... KEEP IT SIMPLE........ LIVE AND LIVE LIVE......... LET IT GO...SOMEONE ELSE RUNS THE SHOW.......AND ME THINKS ITS GOING TO SNOW.... HAVE A NICE DAY
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY
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No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. --Ellen Glasgow
Jimmy and Karen were out catching insects for their science class. Jimmy had caught a gray moth and Karen a monarch butterfly.
"My moth sure isn't very pretty," Jimmy said as he looked at the two insects. "Now...
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nobody's gonna GIVE me justice....i gotta TAKE it
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i decided that wendy/ amanda and rick are right!!!! i belong ANYwhere i THINK i belong.....
so i am gonna post as i dang well please becuz i know my posts help / reach people......so here is my take on "JUSTICE"
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Nobody can give yo...
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TODAY'S GIFT
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Don't worry if your job is small, and your rewards are few. Remember that the mighty oak, Was once a nut like you. --Anonymous
We feel better about ourselves when we can laugh at ourselves a bit. All it takes is a little attitude adjustment. For example, if I decide to learn to ski and my first day out I fa...
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TODAY'S GIFT 11/11
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Don't waste your time hating a failure. --Clarissa Pickola Estes
We are members of the human community. We make mistakes as we trek through this forest. We must remember that our mistakes offer us opportunities for new understanding. If we lived without error, our lives would be static, unch...
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