TOPICS 3/5/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) But just how, in these circumstances, does a fellow “take it easy?“ That’s what I want to know.
12 and 12, p. 26
I was never known for my patience. How many times have I asked “Why should I wait, when I can have it all right now?” Indeed, when I was first presented the Twelve Steps I was like the proverbial “kid in a candy store.“ I couldn’t wait to get to Step Twelve; it was surely just a few months work, or so I thought! I realize now that living the Twelve Steps of A.A. is a lifelong undertaking.
AS BILL SEES IT
2) Perhaps our trouble was not that we used our imagination. Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives. There’s nothing the matter with truly constructive imagination; all sound achievements rest upon it. After all, no man can build a house until he first visions a plan for it.
12 and 12, p. 100
BIG BOOK QUOTE, p. 48
3) In some circumstances, we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy, or the like. But even in this type of beginning, we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened.
4) “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe