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Today's Gift - 3/27
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The more I learn of others' problems, the more my own problems automatically dissolve. --Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche Newcomer The second part of Step Eight says, "became willing to make amends to them all." I have to admit that this is a lot harder for me than simply recognizing that I've caus...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/27
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In the confrontation between the river and the rock. The river always wins. Not through strength but by perseverance.Unknown
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Grapevine
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March 27 "When we early AAs got our first glimmer of how spiritually prideful we could be, we coined this expression: 'Don't try to get too damned good by Thursday!'"
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Sober Quote for the Day ..brought to you by AA
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I have come to believe that hard times are not just meaningless suffering and that something good might turn up at any moment. That's a big change for someone who used to come to in the morning feeling sentenced to another day of life. When I wake up today, there are lots of possibilities. I can hardly wai...
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One week?
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I posted yesterday about how I am on a business trip that ended up being very early in my sobriety. It is challenging, but doable. It has to be. Last night I was able to avoid going to the bar with my colleagues and being a bit of a hermit, but it worked for me. Tonight I have to go bowling. Now, I love bowl...
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Today's Gift - 3/26
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Fall in love with lifeI was sitting in the chair at the beauty shop getting my hair cut one day and listening to my beautician chatter away. She showed me a picture of one of her friends, a woman who had gotten married and recently had a baby girl."She's been so in love since that child was born,"...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/26
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.Chang Tsu
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The Pebble in the Shoe
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The following is an excerpt of a new book, just thought it appropriate to those of us in recovery also ... (in addition to those with non-alcohol generated problems) ... : Whats your pebble? From The Pebble in the Shoe by Jim FanninEveryone has had a pebble in his or her shoe. You may have one or two now....
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Character Flaws? What Character Flaws????
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This was probably next to the biggest fear I had about working these steps. As if the 4th Step wasn't enough--listing my resentments and reading my creeping crud to a person I have known only a few months, then I have to deal with this same person make a list of my "character flaws"! After the m...
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Sober Quote for The Day
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Its a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (I have found it necessary for me not to be around anyone that is drinking no matter how much they are drinking. Staying sober is my number one priority and I have not reached the point where I feel like I...
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Grapevine
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March 25 "I'm better able to love people when the storm of my judgmental mind settles, when I understand and empathize rather than criticize and condemn."
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Spirituality and Alcoholism
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Hi All, It's been a while. Still holding on dearly to my sobriety, and I had an experience that I wanted to share. Over the weekend, I was at a birthday party when I found myself talking to an in-law who is a self-proclaimed "spiritual advisor" by education and trade. She is also an alcoholic....
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Today's Gift - 3/25
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Why go to meetings?The first time we hear that Al-Anon is not about getting people clean and sober, we question the point of going. But what we soon learn is that the program is for us, not for the addict or alcoholic. We learn that we deserve peace.We'll think with greater clarity because Step One wil...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/25
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A single idea can transform a person, a life, a business, a nation, a world.Anonymous
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Divorce -vs- Murder
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DIVORCE VS. MURDER A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, "I would like to buy some cyanide." The pharmacist asked, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?" The lady replied, "I need it...
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Grapevine
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March 26 "As AA grows, it is impossible to know everyone, but if I try to relate myself with just one other person, something will happen, something remarkable."
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4th and 5th Steps with ADHD
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Hi, I'm new to this site. I was googling ADHD and the 4th and 5th Steps and found this site. I have ADHD, diagnosed before I got sober, I have 2 1/2 years sober and had a hard time getting my 4th step written out because it's hard for me to think in chronological order. My 1st "5th Step" didn't go so...
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Pretty Sad But Not For Myself This Time
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I talked to someone yesterday and she told me that she had a drinking problem and had decided to stop drinking. I invited her to my meeting last night and she couldn't go however, she said she really wanted to go tonight and said that she wanted to know I would be there and I said I would. Well, she just call...
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Day 6 and away from home
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Today is day 6 for me. I don't feel as awful as the first few days. I just feel weird and completely out of sorts. And my timing isn't great, but I guess there is never a "convenient" time to get sober. I am from NYC and started on Tuesday. Yesterday I had to fly to Arizona for five days for work...
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Happy Birthday Mike F.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIKE F.!!!   BTY -- Edited by betterthanyesterday52 on Tuesday 25th of March 2014 10:33:59 AM
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Sober Quote for the Day
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I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves. Craig Fergusen BTY
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When One Door Closes
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God and A.A.; The REAL Interview
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God; The REAL Interview.A.A.; Hey God!!! I reeeally wanna say that I'm soooo grateful to be sober and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous ...God; Yeah yeah right. Now if you will listen...I mean REALLY listen for a moment I'm going to tell you why this is happening.First of all you guys are a sounding-boa...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/24
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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly, embrace the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.Unknown
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Ever feel Like Youre Just Not Part Of The Herd?
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson (I think this is a good example of what AA teaches us about how to maintain our sobriety.) BTY
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Step Nine Has Hidden Benefits
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Hi all, Ive been away sailing and out of range for a while which is why I haven't been around. My travels have taken me to the port of Bluff, right at the bottom of the South Island of New Zealand, famous for its oysters, the best in the world. I don't buy them anymore. Much as I love them, they have just got too...
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Today's Gift - 3/24
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I feel best about having helped others believe in themselves. --Bud Sherman Encouragement is one of the greatest gifts we can give one another. Chances are we can all remember someone who encouraged us many years ago. Perhaps a teacher or an employer took a special interest in us, and we have never for...
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseYou will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Isaiah 55:12Weekly QuoteAttitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston ChurchillWeekly ThoughtBad habits are e...
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"Daddy...can I have do-overs?"
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When my youngest son Patrick was born, I had been sober in A.A. for several years. When he was little, we usually played board games together, and as he became more able to learn, I taught him how to play Chess. One of the rules of play in Chess is that, once you've made your move and have removed your fing...
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Welcome to MIP Marley and Social Butterfly
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I'm glad y'all found us ... Most all of us here have been sober 'today' ... we did not find it necessary to drink, or drug, for today ... we're here to support each other within the family that's AA ... some of us have days, months, and even years of living the AA 'way of life' ... most of us have been where you...
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Time
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Here are six terrific truths about time:First: Nobody can manage time. But you can manage those things that take up your time.Second: Time is expensive. As a matter of fact, 80 percent of our day is spent on those things or those people that only bring us two percent of our results.Third: Time is per...
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Recovery is like a vast supply of water....
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Welcome to Miracles In Progress 12 Step Recovery Forums! Twelve Step recovery programs can be a life sustaining substance to many people, just as water is.You can get a cup full or a barrel full. There is plenty here to take as much as you want or need.If you leave too quickly and don't get enough, you are...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/23
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"Alcoholism is the only disease that tells you you're alright." 12stepsource.com BTY
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Today's Gift - 3/23
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I want somehow to tell the story of how the dispossessed become possessed of their own history without losing sight, without forgetting the meaning or the nature of their journey. -Sherley Anne Williams To use the past without being controlled by it that is our responsibility to history. Because t...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/22
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One today is worth two tomorrows.Benjamin Franklin
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Sober Quote for the Day
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"Wanna find out who your true friends are? Get sober" -unknown- (Since I have been sober I actually have friends now and more than I could have ever imagined. I chased away the few friends I had when I was drinking.) I am grateful for the friends I have on this board and you guys! BTY
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Sobering Quote for the Day
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F. Scott Fitzgerald BTY
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You MIGHT BE an alcoholic IF...
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20. You have awakened with an overwelming feeling that you should go back and apologize... but you don't remember where. 19. The Tipsy Taxi service has banned you from all its vehicles. 18. You refer to your favorite song only by its jukebox selection numbers, G-12. 17. People consider your spouse a...
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Today's Gift - 3/22
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When we do for other people what they should do for themselves, we both stay stuck.Perhaps it's human nature to grow and change only when we have to. Unrelenting pain can serve as a motivator. Sometimes ultimatums are effective too. But making excuses for others or taking over their responsibilitie...
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Our fellowship.
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AA and Alanon is not a social club. It's a hospital for sick people. We must continue to express our gratitude by helping others. If we cannot help, let someone else do it. We must never forget what it was like, what happened and what it is like now. After 25 sober years my heart is still longing for the God w...
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Who would like to be my e-sponsor?
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I am a very private person who values his personal space. In the past I have had problems with the in-person demands of real world sponsors. They've been wonderful people with the best intentions but I've always found myself pulling away when beginning to get close to them. It's my hope that someone he...
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For Natasha, ... sung by Natasha B...
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I heard this this a.m. and simply had to post for others who may want to take a 3 minute break and enjoy ... it's one of my favorites ... Love Y'all and God Bless, Pappy -- Edited by Pythonpappy on Wednesday 5th of March 2014 11:20:36 AM
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A Sign Of Spring In Ontario Canada
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Sunrise Quote - 3/20
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The balanced man is he whose thoughts soar on the wings of vision but whose feet remain on the rocks of reality.J. A. Rosenkranz
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Today's Gift - 3/21
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At first, I resented it when my friends in the program told me to be God or let God. -- Myrna K. Who consciously decided to play God? Not me. Not you. But many of us have a terrible time letting God run the world. No matter how much we resolve not to, we take responsibility for things we can't control. That...
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Sunrise Quote - 3/21
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We cannot change yesterday. We can only make the most of today, and look with hope toward tomorrow.Unknown
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Heard @ Meetings
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When I got here I HAD to - Learn to listen & listen to learn. Listen , like only the dying can. Listen , or , thy tongue . Will keep you deaf. A Closed mouth , gathers no feet. Alcohol preserves most things , dignity isn't one of them Hearing Is a gift , listening an art. At the end of a game , the queen & p...
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the flu
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I am laid low with the flu and really it is the only really bad bout of ill health I have had since my HP got me sober 4 years ago. It is giving me time to reflect and slow down and realise I can be done without, easily. I have to cancel all my appointments as I believe in self care today and the little things I was w...
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