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1. We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRDITIONS, p. 177
2. Sometimes sobriety turns up problems that were never apparent during one’s drinking days. But there are good reasons why sobriety brings new problems. One is that we become aware of problems that were there all the time, although not acknowledged.
It is true, as many people say, that drinking can only make matters worse. Nothing can be improved by a return to drinking.
I must remember today that sobriety means living on a new basis. This includes facing problems and dealing with them … not running from them as I did in the past. ~As Bill Sees It
3. At Times, we’ll be tempted to move away from the Steps. At times, we’ll get tired of looking at our behavior and attitudes. We are by nature, controlling people. We’ll want to “prove our point” about something when our program tells us to let it go.
Prayer for the Day: I need to member that the Steps and the fellowship of the program keep me sober, not me alone. ~Keep It Simple
4. The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge. -Mirra Komarovsky
We are growing and changing as a result of our commitment to the program. And it’s that process of commitment that heightens our self-awareness. We learn who we are by listening to others, by sensing their perceptions of us, by taking an honest, careful inventory of our own behavior. The inner conversations that haunt us while we’re interacting with others are poignant guidelines to self-knowledge, self-definition. It is not an easy task to discover who we really are. It’s an even harder job to love and accept the person we discover. But too many years went by while we avoided or denied or, worse yet, denounced the only person we knew how to be. The program offers us the way to learn about and love fully the person within. ~ Each Day A New Beginning