Topics 12/16/24 ❤️🩹
1) ” … nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics … Both you and the new man must walk day by day in the path of spiritual progress. Follow the dictates of a Higher Power, and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!”-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 89, 100
2) Loneliness and isolation are familiar states to most of us. We often protected our insecurities by hiding out, believing that we’d survive if others didn’t know who we really were. But we discovered that our insecurities multiplied. The remedy is people—talking to people, exposing our insecurities to them, risking, risking, risking.
Sharing our mutual vulnerabilities helps us see how fully alike we are. Our most hated shortcoming is not unique, and that brings relief. It’s so easy to feel utterly shamed in isolation. Hearing another fellow say “I understand. I struggle with jealousy, too,” lifts the shame, the dread, the burden of silence. The program has taught us that secrets make us sick, and the longer we protect them, the greater are our struggles. ~Each Day A New Beginning
3) “Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.”—Napoleon Hill
4) “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”—Raymond Linquist
I now see that in my sickness and ignorance I hung onto the familiar, what I perceived to be truth. Fear kept me from trying something new until I hurt bad enough to beg God for the courage to try a different way. I am amazed at how long I put up with a miserable existence, not even recognizing my fear of change. I understand now that, although physically full-grown, I am spiritually still growing and becoming. ~One Day At A Time