Topics 12/3/24 ❤️🩹 1 … we tried to carry this message to alcoholics,and to practice these principles in all our affairs.-TWELVE Steps and TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 106 2) Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind. -Thomas Jefferson Perhaps we do get too tense at times during Read more…
Topics 11/29/24 ❤️🩹 1) To us, however, it represents far more than a sound public relations policy. It is more than a denial of self-seeking. This Tradition is a constant and practical reminder that personal ambition has no place in A.A. In it, each member becomes an active guardian of Read more…
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, Read more…
Topics 11/27/24 ❤️🩹 1) In the beginning, the press could not understand our refusal of all personal publicity. They were genuinely baffled by our insistence upon anonymity. Then they got the point. Here was something rare in the world — a society which said it wished to publicize its principles Read more…
Topics 11/23/24 ❤️🩹 1) Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see.-AS BILL SEES IT, p. 3 2) Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a Read more…
Topics 11/22/24 ❤️🩹 1) ” … there are only two sins; the first is to interfere with the growth of another human being, and the second is to interfere with one’s own growth.”-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 542 2) We must never forget our past. We need to remember the power that Read more…
Topics 11/21/24 ❤️🩹 1) Lord, make me a channel for thy peace – that where there is hatred, I may bring love – that where there is wrong. I may bring the spirit of forgiveness – that where there is discord, I may bring harmony – that where there is Read more…
Topics 11/17/24 ❤️🩹 1) Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn’t quite belong.-AS BILL SEES IT, p. 90 2) Addiction is the great solvent that equalizes Read more…
Topics 11/16/24 ❤️🩹 1) What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 2) I have got rid of most of my inner conflicts. I was always at war with myself. I was doing things that I did not want Read more…
Topics 11/15/24❤️🩹 1) Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation Read more…