Topics 11/28/24 ❤️🩹
1) Through many painful experiences, we think we have arrived at what that policy ought to be. It is the opposite in many ways of usual promotional practice. We found that we had to rely upon the principle of attraction rather than promotion.TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 180-81
2) Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness.
~Count Maurice Maeterlinck
While in the disease, most of the goodness I tried to do was for ulterior motives. It was only in recovery that I learned to give unselfishly and without strings to help another. In doing so, I have found happiness beyond measure. I can create my own happiness in the service of my Higher Power and other alcoholics. I can make the promise of a “new happiness and a new freedom” come true. ~One Day At A Time
3) Today, all I have to do is live the next hour as well as I can. I will not get ahead of myself. I cannot be anywhere but right where I am. When I allow myself to be here now, to live in the present fully and freely, the rest of life takes care of itself. So few people live in the moment, that in itself will make me rare. That will make me someone I feel good about being and others can enjoy being around. When I am in the moment, the next right action reveals itself. When I align my will with the will of my Higher Power, I become one with diving purpose and I connect with the spirituality of life.I surrender to the path. ~One Foot In Front Of The Other
4) There is the type of person who is unwilling to admit that they cannot take a drink. They plan various ways of drinking. They change their brand or their environment. There is the type who always believes that after being entirely free from alcohol for a period of time they can take a drink without danger. There is the manic-depressive type, who is, perhaps, the least understood by their friends, and about whom a whole chapter could be written. Then there are types entirely normal in every respect except in the effect alcohol has upon them. They are often able, intelligent, friendly people. – Pg. xxx – 4th. Edition – The Doctor’s Opinion
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