February 18
AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote
An illness of this sort — and we have come to believe it an illness — involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can. – Pg. 18 – There Is A Solution
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Hour To Hour – Book – Quote
It often happens that you won’t know the role addiction played in your life until you stop using. You have replace roles now. Learning new skills, and this is done at meetings and with your sponsor, is a necessary step in adjusting to your new circumstances.
Rather than see additional burdens in new tasks, I choose to see them as a breath of new life.
Courage
I will develop the courage necessary to meet life. I cannot possibly meet the challenges of my life without courage. Today I understand that courage is something I develop. Each time I go through an experience that stretches me, each time I hold my own feet to the fire, each time I discipline myself and hold myself to a slightly higher standard than before, I grow inside, I get a little bit stronger, I strengthen my own courage to meet the next challenge.
I will I will grow in courage
– Tian Dayton PhD
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Pocket Sponsor – Book – Quote
When you are in the wrong place, the right place is empty.
Do I know my rightful place in recovery?
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“Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book” – Book
Choice, not chance, determines destiny.
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Time for Joy – Book – Quote
‘Today I am establishing rapport with myself’ – Peter Vegso
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Alkiespeak – Book – Quote
Early in recovery. I heard Aldous Huxley give a lecture. Afterword I went up to him, I had an AA pin on my lapel and he spotted it and he was ebullient and said;’I’m a friend of Bill W!’ I didn’t know Bill W, so I said: Mr. Huxley, what is God? and with this grin, he said; ‘God is the inner experience of principles applied.’ I said: ‘ Yeah…maybe you, didn’t understand the question.’ He said; ‘You have a program, if you will apply those Steps, one day at a time, in your life, you will eventually have inner experiences that can’t come about any other way. Then you won’t have to ask that question because you will have the experience.’ – Eddie C.