Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-31-2013, 07:34 AM
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October 31
The sad truth is that most evil...
October 31
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.
--Hannah Arendt
How often have we found ourselves in a predicament and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-30-2013, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 30
When a person is concerned only...
October 30
When a person is concerned only with giving, there is no anxiety.
--Gerald Jampolsky
Whatever we give away returns to us, many-fold. When we show love or understanding, when we are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-29-2013, 07:12 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 29
An honest man's the noblest work...
October 29
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
--Alexander Pope
Step Five says, "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." When we did...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-28-2013, 08:58 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 28
I often think I'm not doing...
October 28
I often think I'm not doing enough with my life. I paint, I golf, I dabble, but is that enough?
--Abby Warman
Nobody can answer the question posed by Abby but ourselves. The point...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-27-2013, 08:23 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 27
It's easy to look at all the...
October 27
It's easy to look at all the tasks and unsolved problems and feel so pressured that we get paralyzed and don't get anything done. It takes discipline to gather in our scattered forces...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-26-2013, 08:43 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 26
Do not be afraid of the ego. It...
October 26
Do not be afraid of the ego. It depends on your mind, and as you made it by believing in it, so you can dispel it by withdrawing belief from it.
--A Course in Miracles
Some of us...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-25-2013, 07:47 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 25
We're not given more than we can...
October 25
We're not given more than we can handle.
Sometimes I take on more than I can comfortably manage - that’s one of the ways in which my life becomes unmanageable. It happens when I'm...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-24-2013, 09:07 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 24
The evolution of human growth is...
October 24
The evolution of human growth is an evolution from an absolute need to be loved towards a full readiness to give love.
--Dr. Karl Stern
As children, we looked to our parents for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-23-2013, 06:53 AM
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Replies: 30
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-22-2013, 08:29 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 22
Happiness is a by product of an...
October 22
Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.
--Gretta Brooker Palmer
Self-centeredness aggravates the natural flow of circumstances surrounding us; too much...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-21-2013, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 21
I wish my parents would trust me...
October 21
I wish my parents would trust me and understand that I am trying my hardest.
--Anonymous
Parents are hard to understand at times. Sometimes they give double messages. They tell us...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-20-2013, 07:34 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 20
Today I Will Trust
Today, I...
October 20
Today I Will Trust
Today, I will stop straining to know what I don't know.
To see what I can't see.
To understand what I don't yet understand.
I will trust that being is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-19-2013, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 19
Accepting our limitations
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October 19
Accepting our limitations
Helen Keller said, "Life is a banquet and most of us are starving to death." Drinking and using sure kept us from seeing the beauty, the bounty in our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-18-2013, 07:42 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 18
You can make more friends in two...
October 18
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.
--Dale Carnegie
We wanted...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-17-2013, 08:29 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 17
Acceptance is not submission; it...
October 17
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
--Kathleen Casey Theisen
Recovery offers us courage...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-16-2013, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 16
Becoming forgiving
The lack...
October 16
Becoming forgiving
The lack of a forgiving spirit hurts our spiritual progress. Being unforgiving causes resentment, which is always a danger to our new way of life.
We have...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-15-2013, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 15
It is the act of forgiveness that...
October 15
It is the act of forgiveness that opens up the only possible way to think creatively about the future at all.
-- Father Desmond Wilson
Today is full of endless possibilities and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-14-2013, 07:21 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 14
Simplicity and greatness go...
October 14
Simplicity and greatness go together.
-- Monty Cralley
We have probably heard the phrase Keep It Simple thousands of times. It's possible we are mystified by it, even yet. So many...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-13-2013, 08:35 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 13
Children do not know how their...
October 13
Children do not know how their parents love them, and they never will till the grave closes over those parents, or till they have children of their own.
--Edmund Vance Cooks
As...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-12-2013, 07:01 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 12
Communicating
He said,...
October 12
Communicating
He said, "Let's go to the movies when we're done with our work." She said, "That's a great idea!" But when the work that she had in mind was finished, he still had...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-11-2013, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 11
If you want to be found, stand...
October 11
If you want to be found, stand where the seeker seeks.
--Sidney Lanier
When does a good program turn into a bad program? When it becomes a hiding place. As adult children, we are...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-10-2013, 08:13 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 10
To the rationally minded, the...
October 10
To the rationally minded, the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises.
--Frances Wickes
Intuition is a valuable...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-09-2013, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 9
I like not only to be loved, but...
October 9
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved . . . the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
--George Eliot
We've all heard many times that we must...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-08-2013, 07:27 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 8
Willing to Make Amends
The...
October 8
Willing to Make Amends
The Eighth Step is talking about a change of heart, a healing change.
This attitude can begin a great chain of repair and healing in our relationships with...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-07-2013, 07:39 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 7
It is one of the most beautiful...
October 7
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without also helping himself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Albert Schweitzer...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-06-2013, 09:24 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 6
Self importance is our greatest...
October 6
Self importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self importance requires that we spend most of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-05-2013, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 30
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October 5
Look, the wind vane fluttering in...
October 5
Look, the wind vane fluttering in the autumn breeze
Takes hold of certain things that cannot be held.
--Feng Chih
When we think we are losing our grip, we have good reason to look...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-04-2013, 07:49 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 4
The divided self exists in all of...
October 4
The divided self exists in all of us.
--Marie Lindquist
One gift of sobriety is the growing awareness that we are complex, whole individuals, more than just our dark side. Defeated,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-03-2013, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 3
The lust of power is not rooted in...
October 3
The lust of power is not rooted in strength, but in weakness.
--Erich Fromm
We believed alcohol or other drugs could help us control our happiness. But now we're learning to rely on...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-02-2013, 07:14 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
October 2
The seed of God is in us. Pear...
October 2
The seed of God is in us. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God seeds into God.
--Meister Eckhart
Often we may feel critical and judgmental about our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings Archive
10-01-2013, 07:39 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 43,155
Today's Thought - October
October 1
THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP
.... open up to hope and new possibilities...
Some mornings we may awaken filled with thoughts of what is wrong in our lives. Perhaps we obsess about our...
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