~ THE EYE OPENER ~
~ THE EYE OPENER ~
DHF Mon Sep 22, 2014 12:40 am
~ THE EYE OPENER ~
We alcoholics had contracted the world until it was no larger than ourselves and our narrow interests. We had few interests that extended beyond our hand or our eye. Everything else was relegated to another world entirely apart from us. It is little wonder that the world gave us no more thought, except for our nuisance value, than they did a man from Mars for, we too, were occupants of another world.
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We alcoholics had contracted the world until it was no larger than ourselves and our narrow interests. We had few interests that extended beyond our hand or our eye. Everything else was relegated to another world entirely apart from us. It is little wonder that the world gave us no more thought, except for our nuisance value, than they did a man from Mars for, we too, were occupants of another world.
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DHF Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:58 am
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Everyone is potentially as good as God made him and the reason that he does not show it is because he has buried the fact beneath a mountain of selfishness.
It has ever been man's misdirected efforts to benefit himself and himself alone that have resulted in his greatest disservice to himself.
The closer man gets to himself the further away he is from God and the world. The further he is away from God and the world, the further away he is from God's blessings and the world's happiness.
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Everyone is potentially as good as God made him and the reason that he does not show it is because he has buried the fact beneath a mountain of selfishness.
It has ever been man's misdirected efforts to benefit himself and himself alone that have resulted in his greatest disservice to himself.
The closer man gets to himself the further away he is from God and the world. The further he is away from God and the world, the further away he is from God's blessings and the world's happiness.
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DHF Sat Sep 27, 2014 1:49 pm
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For us alcoholics, the First Step in life was the usual toddle of the infant. The Second Step we learned to walk erect like a man, the Third Step, we started to run to keep up with the world, the Fourth Step we were staggering, the Fifth Step was stumbling and falling, and the Twelfth Step found us erect again.
What happened between the Fifth Step when we fell and the Twelfth Step? Don't ask me, I'm an alcoholic too, I had probably just blacked out. Watch your steps—they take you places.
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For us alcoholics, the First Step in life was the usual toddle of the infant. The Second Step we learned to walk erect like a man, the Third Step, we started to run to keep up with the world, the Fourth Step we were staggering, the Fifth Step was stumbling and falling, and the Twelfth Step found us erect again.
What happened between the Fifth Step when we fell and the Twelfth Step? Don't ask me, I'm an alcoholic too, I had probably just blacked out. Watch your steps—they take you places.
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DHF Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:05 am
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Prohibition is a glaring example of the futility of endeavoring to protect men from their own follies. The setting up of barriers is effective only in challenging the resources of man to overcome those barriers.
It is an unfortunate truth that we never fear a hot stove until we have been burnt, and a fresh paint sign serves only as a dare to everyone to put their finger on it and see for themselves.
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Prohibition is a glaring example of the futility of endeavoring to protect men from their own follies. The setting up of barriers is effective only in challenging the resources of man to overcome those barriers.
It is an unfortunate truth that we never fear a hot stove until we have been burnt, and a fresh paint sign serves only as a dare to everyone to put their finger on it and see for themselves.
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DHF Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:00 am
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We are not in a position to give an opinion on leprosy, jungle fever, hoof-and-mouth disease or other minor ailments like that, but when it comes to the really "big sickness"—hang-overs—we can speak with some authority.
How any piece of mechanism could take the rough treatment we gave our human bodies would make it appear, on the surface, that Nature intended to make us live to punish ourselves in a manner that Nature itself could not duplicate. Outraged Nature could only confine its retribution to the body. The mental and spiritual beating we took was administered by ourselves. That was the most cruel of all.
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We are not in a position to give an opinion on leprosy, jungle fever, hoof-and-mouth disease or other minor ailments like that, but when it comes to the really "big sickness"—hang-overs—we can speak with some authority.
How any piece of mechanism could take the rough treatment we gave our human bodies would make it appear, on the surface, that Nature intended to make us live to punish ourselves in a manner that Nature itself could not duplicate. Outraged Nature could only confine its retribution to the body. The mental and spiritual beating we took was administered by ourselves. That was the most cruel of all.
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DHF Sat Oct 18, 2014 10:50 am
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The life of the alcoholic is very similar to a jigsaw puzzle. In our days of drinking, the whole of life appeared as simply as a jumbled mass of unrelated pieces, impossible to unscramble.
In AA someone gave us the corner piece and from this we slowly and laboriously found one piece after another. Each piece that we fitted in made it easier to find the next piece.
First we found understanding, then hope, then determination, then sobriety, then unselfishness, then love, then faith and finally God.
All the pieces are in place finally, the picture makes sense and it is beautiful to behold.
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The life of the alcoholic is very similar to a jigsaw puzzle. In our days of drinking, the whole of life appeared as simply as a jumbled mass of unrelated pieces, impossible to unscramble.
In AA someone gave us the corner piece and from this we slowly and laboriously found one piece after another. Each piece that we fitted in made it easier to find the next piece.
First we found understanding, then hope, then determination, then sobriety, then unselfishness, then love, then faith and finally God.
All the pieces are in place finally, the picture makes sense and it is beautiful to behold.
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DHF Thu Oct 30, 2014 7:21 pm
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Each and every one of us have what we have only by the Grace of God. Even if we acquired all our possessions through our own industry and intelligence, still you must admit that you gave yourself none of these attributes that made your acquisition possible.
These were not necessarily inherited traits, for geniuses have had morons for children. You have what you have because God so willed it, so use them as God would will it.
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Each and every one of us have what we have only by the Grace of God. Even if we acquired all our possessions through our own industry and intelligence, still you must admit that you gave yourself none of these attributes that made your acquisition possible.
These were not necessarily inherited traits, for geniuses have had morons for children. You have what you have because God so willed it, so use them as God would will it.
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DHF Tue Dec 02, 2014 12:27 pm
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Fires, floods, and epidemics are no-body's business — they are everybody's business. Alcoholism is equally devastating and just as much a community catastrophe.
We in AA are unique in that we are trained veterans in the art of combating this disease. Its prevalence demands the complete co-operation of every qualified man or woman, and we are guilty of dereliction of duty and lacking in gratitude to the Grace of God that saved us, if we do anything less than our utmost.
Published by Hazelden
Fires, floods, and epidemics are no-body's business — they are everybody's business. Alcoholism is equally devastating and just as much a community catastrophe.
We in AA are unique in that we are trained veterans in the art of combating this disease. Its prevalence demands the complete co-operation of every qualified man or woman, and we are guilty of dereliction of duty and lacking in gratitude to the Grace of God that saved us, if we do anything less than our utmost.
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