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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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

~ 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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Reflection For The DayAs Addictive persons, self-delusion was intricately woven through almost all our thoughts and actions. We became experts at convincing ourselves, when necessary, that b… Read More

The hero comes down from the mountain,Radiant with the power.Yet one tussle with a dusty old manQuickly tumbles him into the dirt.In olden times, young men and women who wanted to be extraor… Read More

Our subjectivity Is a mirrored,Spiked casket.We surround ourselves with the reflections of our own identities. We think only of ourselves, not of Tao. All we care about is survival and… Read More

Love at first sight is easy to understand. It’s when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle.— Sam LevensonTrue intimacy introduces us to o… Read More

Chant one million times for world peace, they told me.Pray three times a day to end all wars.Practice austerities to liberate all living beings.But the world’s miseries have never dimi… Read More

Reflection For The DayBased on their collective experience, The Program’s founders suggested a prayer to be said when taking the #Third #Step – and making a decision to turn our… Read More

“Decisions that have been made for the last couple of centuries have been decisions made without the presence of a real God….from the vision, not of God, but of money.”&nd… Read More

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.—Mark TwainSometimes it does no good to try to “deal” with your feelings. For the moment, we’re… Read More

Those truly linked don't need correspondence.When they meet again after many years apart,Their friendship is as true as ever.In the distant past, there was once a young and wealthy statesman… Read More

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

Reflection for the DayWhen I first came to the Program, I thought that humility was just another word for weakness. But I gradually learned that there’s nothing incompatible between hu… Read More

Tao is strangely colorless,Yet intense.It grips like a tidal wave.The old books describe Tao as strangely colorless. What do they mean by that? Where gods appear in flashes of blinding light… Read More

“A man should rely on his own resources; the one who so trains himself is ready for any emergency.”~ Oral Tradition, OMAHA Man is designed to function independently and to r… Read More

You were a beautiful gift. We loved you more than anyone could and we will miss you until God takes us. May Your Soul Rest In peace. Why not sign up to get emails with all daily posts i… Read More

Deception occurs when you are divided,Truth appears when you are whole.Uniting male and female brings illumination,The real master is a perfect light.No one is ineligible to know higher trut… Read More

      When you drink water,      Remember its source. If your spiritual understanding is sound, then you will constantly be aware of the… Read More

Sun in heaven.Abundance in great measure.Supreme successIn the midst of impermanence.The midday sun in summer is the hottest and brightest of all. It symbolizes a zenith, a fulfillment, a pe… Read More

Morning light illuminates the meditating wrestler.In his mind, even a wooden temple is washed away.Who could challenge an ocean's depth?There once was a wrestler who, in spite of his great p… Read More

I meditate daily before the altar,Yet I am still covered with sin.In spite of daily efforts to improve ourselves, we still have many faults. We eliminate one, only to find new shortcomings… Read More

GREAT POSSESSIONS One of the saddest passages in all literature is the story of the Rich Young Man who missed one of the great opportunities of history, “. . .and went away sorrowful:… Read More

Chant one million times for world peace, they told me.Pray three times a day to end all wars.Practice austerities to liberate all living beings.But the world’s miseries have never dimi… Read More

Love is something if you give away, you end up having more.— Malvina ReynoldsService is how we give love away. It’s the “self” of self-help. Service is not a duty; a… Read More

“Decisions that have been made for the last couple of centuries have been decisions made without the presence of a real God….from the vision, not of God, but of money.” &n… Read More