ON FRIENDSHIPS AND REACHING OUT – “Recovery becomes a contact process; we lose the fear of touching and of being touched. We learn that a simple, loving hug can make all the difference in the world when we feel alone. We experience real love and real friendship.” (The Basic Text, p. 91)
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“Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.” – Millicent Fenwick (1910 – 1992), U.S., fashion editor/diplomat
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“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.” – Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997), Macedonian Missionary & Saint
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WE TRANSCEND BEYOND LIMITATIONS – “… each step has contributed to the extraordinary transformation which we know as a spiritual awakening.” “Though each individual’s experience … varies, some experiences are so common as to be almost universal. Humility is one of these common factors.” (It Works, How & Why, p. 82)
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AND KNOWING IS ONLY HALF THE BATTLE – “… we are to place principles before personalities; … we are to practice a genuine humility. This to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of … [a loving Higher Power]
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THE FOLLY OF OUR BEST THINKING – “We have learned that if a solution isn’t practical, it isn’t spiritual. In the past, we made simple situations into problems; we made mountains out of molehills. Our best ideas got us here.” (12 & 12, p. 52)
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LETTING THE JOY SHINE THRU IN ALL WE DO – “Yes, we are a vision of hope.” “The joy that we have in living clean is an attraction to the addict who still suffers.” “The steps are a new beginning!” (The Basic Text, p. 53)
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“You ask me why I do not write something … . I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.” – Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910) English nurse in the Crimean War on getting into action
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