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Although they may have to killOr suffer themselves to be killed,A person of composure remains dispassionate.Nothing is ever destroyed,Nothing is ever created.All is infinity.For most people… Read More
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Best recovery site out there. Posts Big Book, Steps, Reflections etc. to help all recovering alcoholics, addicts. Includes AA, speakers , NA speakers.
2022-08-05 23:04
A small boy drivesA hundred ducks to the lakeWith a tasseled stick :A mass of excited white.A small boy can command an entire flock of ducks with a slender stick. The ducks go contentedly do… Read More
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They call her uselessAnd yet push for achievement."I want a baby."They bicker between themselves,And reproach her for being distant."My friends have so much fun."They dwell on money,And inde… Read More
2022-08-03 23:04
Anything is subject for a poem :A catalog of boxing equipment, a collage of other poems,Serpentine trail of incense, raised deer fur, old shoes pointed pigeon-toed,Glass and steel cityscape… Read More
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Fog chills heaven to gray.Nights come earlier.Everyone knows decline,But few discern its border.Although it is summer and there are many warm months to come, it is possible to sense the heav… Read More
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Magic doesn't work in this new place.Native poetry has lost rhythm and rhyme,Familiar food is labeled a curiosity,And hostile stares replace familial love.To be an immigrantIs to be solitary… Read More
2022-07-28 00:30
During nine years in AA, I have observed that those who follow the Alcoholics Anonymous program with the greatest earnestness and zeal not only maintain sobriety but often acquire finer char… Read More
2022-07-14 00:00
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you be coming home drunk. If you are satisfied he really wants to get over d… Read More
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. . . AND LETTING GO OF IT. . . primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something we demanded. Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we we… Read More
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Hi Guys, It has just come my attention that Google has changed some things and so in order to use the speakers section you may need to add www.essentialsofrecovery.com to your sit… Read More
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HAPPY SAINT PADDY'S DAY STAY SAFE , STAY SOBER. Why not sign up to get emails with all daily posts included? O… Read More
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2022-02-28 00:35
FLEE DESOLATIONThe moment you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, you should reject it instantly. Do not stop to say “goodbye” to the error but immediately switch your at… Read More
2022-02-28 00:30
WHAT? NO PRESIDENT?When told that our Society has no president having authority to govern it, no treasurer who can compel the payment of any dues, . . . our friends gasp and exclaim, “… Read More
2022-02-28 00:28
The Greatest Gift“Our newly found faith serves as a firm foundation for courage in the future.”~ Basic Text, p. 93 ~When we begin coming to meetings, we hear other addicts talkin… Read More
2022-02-28 00:26
A.A. Thought for the DayWe should be free from alcohol for good. It’s out of our hands and in the hands of God, so we don’t need to worry about it or even think about it anymore… Read More
2022-02-28 00:24
~ Page 59 ~Conviction and CompromiseOne qualification for a useful life is give-and-take, the ability to compromise cheerfully. Compromise comes hard to us “all or nothing” drunk… Read More
2022-02-28 00:22
SEEKING EXCITEMENTSeeking Serenity“I haven’t found anything to replace the excitement I felt while drinking,” a member complained. “Sure, I’m grateful to be sob… Read More
2022-02-28 00:20
Leave yourself alone.~ Jenny Janacek ~We often pick on ourselves. We put our-selves down. But doing this isn’t part of our recovery. In fact, it goes against our program. Our program i… Read More
2022-02-28 00:18
PERFECTION“God, the Good, is the basic power you express.”~ Robert Bitzer ~It is so easy for me to focus on the failings of others and miss my own. My attraction to gossip allows… Read More
2022-02-28 00:16
Reflection for the DayWe’re taught in the Program and the Twelve Steps that the chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear—mainly fear that we would lose somethin… Read More
2022-02-28 00:15
SPONSORSHIPSponsors: Have one, use one, be one.~ Anonymous ~Before we were in the Program very long, it was suggested we find a sponsor. We found an individual who had the kind of recovery w… Read More
2022-02-28 00:12
“Ultimately, nature will do the teaching.”~ Tom Porter, MOHAWK ~There are things man has control over, and there are things man does not have control over. No matter how smart we… Read More
2022-02-28 00:09
Faith and love solve many things.~ Phyllis Elliott ~Most of the situations we encounter need not become sticky; problems develop, however, when we insist that outcomes meet our specification… Read More
2022-02-28 00:04
Wellspring of energyRises in the body’s coreTap it and be sustained.Channel it, and it will speak.The source of all power is within yourself. Although external circumstances may occasi… Read More
2022-02-27 07:57
Cessation of drinking is but the first step away from a highly strained, abnormal condition. ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 122 Read More
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2022-01-29 01:30
On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead...." we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives."… Read More
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THE LAW OF FORGIVENESSIt is an unbreakable mental law that you have to forgive others if you want to demonstrate over your difficulties and to make any real spiritual progress.The vital impo… Read More
2022-01-28 00:30
THE TREASURE OF THE PASTShowing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God’s hands, th… Read More
2022-01-28 00:28
An Every-Day Addict” We can never fully recover, no matter how long we stay clean.”Basic Text p. 80After getting a little time in the program, some of us begin to think we have b… Read More
2022-01-28 00:28
“We call it the `sacred’ red road because it is the road that will lead us to living the good life, an honest and healthy life.”–Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWAThe Red Road… Read More
2022-01-28 00:26
A.A. Thought For The DayWhat a load hangovers put on your shoulders! What terrible physical punishment we’ve all been through. The pounding headaches and jumpy nerves, the shakes and t… Read More
2022-01-28 00:24
Troublemakers Can Be Teachers, p. 28Few of us are any longer afraid of what any newcomer can do to our A.A. reputation or effectiveness. Those who slip, those who panhandle. those who scanda… Read More
2022-01-28 00:22
Easy does itAvoiding tensionAs people of excess, alcoholics tend to swing between periods of great activity and times of complete lassitude. There is a tendency to waste time at one point, a… Read More
2022-01-28 00:20
We’re part of the fellowship we call “the program.” Let’s also remember that we’re part of a larger fellowship called ” the human race.” We all hurt… Read More
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WISDOM“Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and education for making a living.”— James Mason WoodThe spiritual… Read More
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Reflection For The DayNow that I am in The Program, I am no longer enslaved by alcohol and other drugs. Free, free at last from the other drugs. Free, free at last from the morning-after tre… Read More
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~ SUCCESS ~Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.–Winston ChurchillMy life before program consisted of one failure after the next. I could… Read More
2022-01-28 00:09
Conscious Contact. Coming into what is clearly a spiritual program, we may have been fearful that our own unworthiness would hold us back. We may have believed that a spiritual life and… Read More
2022-01-28 00:06
Man was created in the image of God. We are told that the heart of man is the Temple of the Holy Ghost. A realization of this fact makes the desecration of the body as sacrilegious as the de… Read More
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A father without a fatherHas difficulty balancing.A master without a masterIs dangerous.We look up to our parents, our teachers, and our leaders with trust and expectation. Their responsibil… Read More
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Remain silent, and you sink into a realm of shadows; speak, and you fall into a deep pit.Try, and you’re as far away as sky from earth; give up, and you’ll never attain.Enormous… Read More
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STEP THREE“This only God may be had for the asking.”James Russell LowellWhen I first came to the program and looked at the steps on the walls, my ego told me that I had Step Thre… Read More
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REALITY“Humans are complex beings: they make deserts bloom and lakes die.”~ Gif Stern I am a mix of good and bad. When I was drinking, I could be cruel, sarcastic, and viole… Read More
2021-11-29 00:04
Dismount your donkey at the summit.Some places in this world are very hard to climb, and people use animals. Each person can only ride one, and each animal might have a different name. The r… Read More
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You may be capable of great things,But life consists of small things.Big things seldom come along. One should know the small as well as the big. We may all yearn to make lasting achievements… Read More
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