- My inability to articulate my needs and wants to you, makes me resent you and loath myself.
- Our problems are never about someone else.
- There is no reality out there, only a reality in here, projected out there.
- Expectation is a resentment waiting to happen.
- Children feel everything, at all times.
- You either deal with the wound or the wound deals you.
- You cannot make me do anything; no one can.
- In order for you to betray me, I have to first betray myself.
- We do someone a great disservice when we do for them what they could, and should do for themselves.
- There is no God to find, only a God to allow.
- Did you know that about 50% of the world is looking for fresh water to drink and food to eat. Please
remember that the next time you go to the grocery store. We are rich beyond belief; be grateful for that,
don't feel guilty about it.
- If you cannot find yourself where you are right now, then where are you going to go to look for you?
- God's Will shall never take you to a place where God's Grace will not sustain you.
- Be yourself, cause everyone else is already taken.
- 70% of the world cannot read.
- Even a broken mirror can reflect the truth.
- I don't see the world as it is, I see the world as I am.
- There is a God and it ain't you.
- The God I seek is in the pain I avoid.
- You cannot convince me of anything without me allowing you to do it.
- I can't trust, because I believe that if you betray me, I won't be able to take care of myself.
- Love your neighbor as yourself; the problem is, that is exactly what we do.
- How can I love you when I don't love me?
- If you want to see how power corrupts, just watch a school crossing guard; then multiply that by
ten thousand.
- Sober alcoholics do not display any more psychiatric disorders than the general population. See I told
you we weren't crazy.
- How can I miss you if you don't leave? (Cyrus)
- Perfect is the enemy of the good.
- I drove by the cemetery a few days ago and all the headstones had the same inscription: "I was only
trying to help."
- 1 million people will die this week worldwide. Be glad you are not one of them.
- Remember: No good deed goes unpunished.
- Ego is the enemy to all spirituality.
- Humility usually comes through humiliation; Gods way of telling us we need to pay attention.
- What's your greatest secret?
- When I didn't know better, I couldn't do better. Now I know better, I can do better.
- The alcoholic: a failed mystic. beautiful description.
- Why is getting what you want so damn important? What will that do for you if you do get what you
want? Why is being right so important? What does that mean to you? What do you risk by being
wrong? What's at stake?
- Actions speak louder than words.
- I've never heard someone talk so much and say so little
- Sponsors must have an inordinate amount of humility to do it correctly. Given the alcoholics natural
ego inclination to control and manipulate added to his insecure need for approval and deification,
a vulnerable and naive newcomer is a ripe target for any dishonest sponsor who lacks true
humility. A sponsor can gain humility if they admit that they are benefiting as much as the newcomer.
- Whoa to the man whose mind quickly grasps what his heart fails to see.
- The journey is not outward to another place, it is inward to the center of yourself.
- Why is it so easy to see others faults, and so hard to see my own?
- The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.
- The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking; simple enough.
- The problem with life is that there is no one to blame it on.
- Don't do as I do, do as I say.
- Cicero Frank use to say, "once I realized that God loved me, what else mattered."
- Every person is a mirror.
- Gain, loss / have, have not / win, loose / success, failure / out, in are all the same. To live in duality is
to constantly live in judgement and anxiety.
- Every problem is a spiritual problem.
- It seems that there is a 5 year cycle in AA. If you notice many people drink around the 5, 10, and 15
year mark; some even at 20. Ouch!
- Why is it that little girls are rarely diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. Just a question.
- If not you, then who; if not now, then when?
- Why should anyone listen to me? Not because I've done everything right, but because I've done every-
thing wrong.
- It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
- How is it that we spend countless hours in study, education, and research on our careers, but
can't seem to find 5 extra minutes to pray?
- The 4 absolutes are what drove Bill Wilson out of the Oxford Group. Keep
that in mind.
- People don't want truth, they want comfort.
- The search for God, Self, and Truth are all the same thing.
- The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
- How is it that I know how to care for you, but have no idea of how to care for me?
- Emotional sobriety is just that.
- The pain you carry will not get better by avoiding it, it will only get worse.
- How often does your entire family sit down to a meal together?
- I'm not looking for answers, I'm looking for better questions.
- Your head can only think, it cannot feel.
- A man who brags about the greatness of his mind is like a convict who brags about the size of his
prison cell.
- There are no absolutes.
- Do you realize how fortunate we are in America that we can turn on a faucet anywhere and safely
drink that water. Flush a toilet, and that water will never mix with our drinking water.
Try that in India where the Ganges River is the source of drinking, cooking, and bathing as well as the
depository of human and animal waste. Can you imagine how physically sick these people are because
of that!
- Remember that no matter what anniversary you are celebrating today in AA, it is always a
very dangerous time.
- For all us born beneath an angry star, as we forget how fragile we are. (Sting)
- What am I repressing, denying, or avoiding today?
- A priest friend of mine always asks 2 questions after someone has slipped: When did you
stop going to meetings? and What are you hiding? I like that.
- I am my choices, that's all I am. How do I make better ones?
- The only failure in life is living without risk.
- The US Government borrows 5 billion dollars a day.
- There's no place to go, you're already there; There is no God to find, He's already here. There's
nothing to do, it's already done; there's nothing to become you already are. Just stop looking and it will all catch up with you.
- The most spiritually profound things are said by the newcomer because he has no idea what he is
talking about.
- I'm always better off if I don't plan anything.
- You are where you're at, and don't need to be anywhere else.
- Why is the moment so hard to live in? Because in it, I'm there with me.
- If we are all the same, then why are we always categorized by our differences?
- Follow the man who seeks the truth, beware the man who has found it.
- The key to happiness lies in the reason for your unhappiness.
- When the pain of staying still becomes greater than the pain of moving, you'll move.
- A cat will only sit on a hot stove once; but he will never sit on a cold one either
- If you want love, be more loving
- I can only acquire what I am willing to give up.
- In order to attain something you desire, don't desire it.
- You want to talk the talk, you better walk the walk.
- Where you going so fast? and Why are you going so fast?
- Alcoholic pilot over the intercom: I have no idea where we're going, but we sure are makin good time.
- It was the atheist who suggested to Bill Wilson, "why don't you say, God as you understood Him."
- I can't give you something I don't have.
- God will do for me what I can't do for myself; I only need to let Him.
- The promises, are just that.
- What we admire in another are the same qualities we ourselves possess.
- What we resent in others are the same qualities we possess, but are unwilling to be aware of them.
- Restore to sanity means that at one point, I was sane. Huh.
- The victim, like misery, always needs a susceptible audience.
- When America deserted Viet Nam, we abandoned what constituted the 3rd largest military power in the
world at that time; we just left it there. Stunning huh?
- All prejudice is an attempt to remove our self hate and place it onto another.
- Everything I need for complete spiritual fulfillment is available to me at this very moment.
- If you want to see, then look.
- It is, and it ain't no iser.
- Life is difficult; compared to what?
- When I was in Viet Nam, I could get a cold bottle of coke a cola almost anywhere in the villages. Weird.
- What comes from the heart, reaches the heart; what comes from the head reaches nowhere.
- The intellect is the enemy of all true awareness.
- 1% of the population of the world owns a computer or has a college degree; 1%!
- Sin boldly.
- Pain: the touchstone of all spiritual progress.
- Character is what you do when no one is looking.
- What part of no don't you understand?
- AA recovers your heart through your head.
- Do you realize how fortunate you are that you no longer have to drink?
- Just for today.
- My life could never have been purchased, only experienced.
- Yin / Yang
- AA: a place where redemption is found in damnation; where truth is found in lies; where communion
is found in isolation; where self is found in others; where faith is found in disbelief; where beauty is
found in the disfigured; where life is found in death; where God is found in the sinner. Amazing isn't it?
- The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is indifference.
- The mind sees only what it's told, the heart sees everything else.
- There is no security, but there can be serenity.
- If you leave the house and run into three assholes, you can be assured, you're the asshole.
- If you don't pray on your hands and knees then I think you have a problem with who's who in the
relationship.
- If you are having trouble staying sober, I think you might want to take a look at your drinking
- Nothing will ensure continued sobriety more than working with others.
- Nothing will ensure continued sobriety more than not drinking.
- Every problem I encounter has one overriding characteristic, I happen to be there for it.
- There are no problems, only spiritual opportunities.
- There are no problems, only solutions.
- How can two people look at the very same situation and see two entirely different things?
- For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
- I'm not much, but I'm all I think about.
- There is no constant or steady state in life, that's why there is no place to go, it's already gone.
- To try to hold onto anything is futile.
- Buddhist Monk was asked, what do you do? I sit at the river bank, selling water.
- To meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposter's just the same (Kipling)
- Character more easily kept than recovered.
- Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.
- 500 million people are close to death by starvation and malnutrition at this very moment. Be grateful.
- Why do people cry when they experience overwhelming beauty? Cause one day they know they
won't be here to see it.
- Truth requires action.
- How come there is always traffic whenever I get on the road?
- Crater Lake was secret to the Indian tribe in that area; only the chief and medicine man knew of its
location; it was considered to be such powerful visual medicine that only they could be trusted with
its whereabouts.
- You think it would be easier for us to change, because we are doing it all the time.
- Famous Greek director was asked if he ever had any problems with people throughout his long career;
he answered "only the people I helped."
- Hardships don't create character, they reveal it.
- Today, no matter what your situation, if you have food, clothes, a roof, and a bed to sleep in,
you are luckier than 75% of the worlds people.
- Aren't you just tired of thinking about yourself?
- 4% of the population are sociopaths. Scary huh?
- Freedom isn't free.
- AA is the greatest humanitarian movement ever created. It took Gods vast power and put it in the hands
of the weak, failed, broken, and fragile; and we intuitively knew what to do with it. Unbelievable.
- Bill and Bob, a more unusual odd couple could never be imagined. Thank God each was who he was.
- Life is filled with pain, sorrow and disappointment; and over all too soon.
- Why do the Irish party so enthusiastically at funerals? They're glad its not them.
- Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have a common enemy.
- How come you feel that you have to go anywhere?
- The destruction caused in an alcoholic family touches all things, and all people, and all generations. It
needs to stop now.
- If I always know the right thing to do, why is it so damn hard to do it?
- AA, Accountability in Action
- Why be considerate of the neighbors and be cruel to each other?
- If God is loving, why do we hate each other so much?
- If God is loving, why do we hate ourselves so much?
- God has trouble with religion.
- If someone hears you criticize the corpse at an Irish wake, they will chide you with "don't speak ill of
the dead." I guess you can only speak ill of the living.
- My brother is a cardiologist and he put a pace maker in one of his 78 year old patients. After it was
inserted, his 80 year old wife came in and asked if it was ok to "chaka chaka" when they got home.
When she left, the man turned to my brother and said, "my wife is so sexy." How's that for sweet.
- Our differences may define us, but it is our similarities that unite us.
- We are all warriors in the spirit.
- Courage is not action in the absence of fear, courage is action in spite of fear.
- 3 billion people, yes billion, cannot worship in the church of their choice without fear of being attacked
or killed. Think of that this Sunday.
- After dropping the 2 atomic bombs on Japan, they were warned that the next one would be on Tokyo.
That forced the surrender and ended the war. We didn't have a third bomb. One of the greatest
bluffs in human history.
- If only everyone just swept in front of their own doors, wouldn't the world be a clean place.
- AA, a free organization whose members have paid the highest initiation fee ever charged.
- Pray for potatos, pick up a hoe.
- You want spirituality, get a job.
- Dare to be present today.
- There is no tomorrow.
- Wake up.
- Don't look to the future, we'll all be dead.
- The truth is so obvious as to be completely overlooked.
- I am eternally grateful for the special group of men who gave up their tomorrows, so that we could
have our today's. Please remember the soldier.
- Where ever you go, there you are.
- The Hindus believe there is only one sin, desire.
- Dr Bob was a proctologist by profession. When his friends heard he had quit drinking and was
working with alcoholics, they declared, "It's nice to see he's still working with a bunch of assholes."
- I was at my sponsors office one day and a mutual friend of ours was just leaving. I said, "boy, that
guys gotta good life, huh?" My sponsor answered, "Yea, and he knows it."
- We are all in the departure lounge.
- I may not be where I want to be, but I'm exactly where I've chosen to be. OUCH!
- Everything God made has a crack in it.
- The Chinese believe that all things come out of the void, a place of active creative nothingness. Different.
- It is flattering to think that the God who made all the universe, took the time to make me.
- We were perfect when we were born, then we met our parents.
- If there is one women out there for you, it'll be guaranteed you won't find her.
- I have never been married because I believe in it.
- Why is the truth so difficult to accept? Because once I see it, I can no longer claim ignorance.
- AA: where can you get this kind of entertainment for only 2 bucks?
- Pain is just that.
- As much empathy as I have for those who slip, I'm always glad it's not me.
- Acceptance is the key to all my problems.
- I can only help you if you need help, want help, and ask for help; then I can only help you help yourself.
- How come I will do things for you that I would never do for me?
- How do you accept something? You surrender to the truth it presents to you.
- Have you ever noticed that the guy in the room who is in the most crisis is the guy with 20+ years.
- I can't give it to you, but I can help you get it.
- USMC: Uncle Sam's Misguided Children.
- I avoid myself by helping you.
- Can I give up what I need to, in order to find what I have to?
- Pride commeth before the fall.
- Ego maniac with an inferiority complex.
- An alcoholic is the person who can lie in the gutter and look down on someone.
- Who is more important to me than me? I have been with me every moment. I will be here until the
end. If I don't learn to take care of me, then who will.
- GOD: Group of Drunks; Good orderly Direction; and my favorite, Gift of Despair.
- Alcohol wants me drunk, but it will settle for me being miserable.
- Alcohol wants me dead, I have the right to defend myself.
- We're all in this together, by ourselves.
- The answer to our lives is in the place where we least desire to look.
- Be yourself, no matter what they say.
- You only have one job in life, to be the best you you can be.
- When you look in the mirror, isn't it unsettling that there is someone looking back at you?
- Get use to eating humble pie; after awhile it doesn't taste half bad.
- I don't make many commitments because I believe in them.
- As long as you hurt me less than I hurt myself, I'll never notice.
- 5 answers to prayer: 1) yes 2) no 3) wait 4) you've got to be kidding me; and my most very favorite
of the whole bunch; 5) ok, but you're not going to like it.
- 6% of the population hold 59% of the wealth worldwide; all of them are here in the US. WOW!
- Stop asking for things because you'll get em.
- Victims only victimize themselves.
- I help you (Rescuer), you don't appreciate me (Victim), I feel compelled to retaliate (Perpetrator); the
cycle repeats over and over driven by need and shame.
- Truth hurts.
- We are always unconsciously telling people how to treat us.
- I have always been a sucker for beauty.
- Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
- I only have one soul to save, that's my own.
- Throughout your sobriety you will step over many bodies, don't lie down with them. (Ponytail Bob)
- You can't sell AA to anyone, he's already purchased it from God.
- God sees in private, but rewards openly.
- Guilt is what I feel when I do something wrong; shame is my identity as a person.
- The last thing I usually call on for help is the most powerful thing I could do for myself, pray.
- How many times do I have to forgive my brother? 7 times 70.
- Why do parents only talk to their kids when something is wrong?
- If parents think they are hiding anything from their kids awareness, they are sadly mistaken.
- All wholeness lies in our brokenness.
- I'm always awed by the fact that PHD's can't figure out a foolproof way to lock a gate against the
mind and creativity of any average 5 year old. It's funny isn't it?
- To gain the kingdom of heaven, become like the child
- Where do you spend the most effort? Why?
- Bogart was heard to say, "the only reason to have money was to tell some big shot to go screw himself."
- Why do we care about the people in Hollywood? How is it that we think that their lives are more
important than our own? How could that be?
- Who the hell is Oprah anyway? Why would she know what's good for you?
- Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough; man meets a women and they fall in love; but the house is
haunted and the ride gets rough; got to learn to live with what you can't rise above; as we ride down
baby into the tunnel of love. (Springsteen)
- I'm not who I should be, I'm not who I ought to be, I'm not who I could be, but thank God, I'm not
who I use to be.
- Be careful what you do, reaction follows all action.
- Let life be.
- Go ahead, jump.
- If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride; if wishes were watches, I'd wear one by my side.
- If my aunt had nuts, she'd be my uncle.
- Attraction not promotion.
- Who in God's name buys anything from the Home Shopping Network? Why?
- Wall Mart brings in $36 million dollars an hour which translates into $22 thousand dollars a minute
in profit.
- I'm lookin for the daughter of the devil himself, I'm lookin for an angel in white; I'm lookin for a women
who's a little of both, I can feel her but she's nowhere in sight. (Eagles)
- During the siege of Berlin in WWII, you could make a phone call. Ah, those Germans.
- The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.
- The only things that are life and death, are life and death.
- Walking the wire between pain and desire, looking for love in between. (Eagles)
- What do you think happens when we die? We're going to find out.
- I would hate to have my entire life judged by a 5 minute encounter with someone, but that's exactly
what happens. I guess it would depend on which 5 minutes.
- Risk, always risk.
- I have been so use to the pain in my life being the only thing that let me know I was alive.
- We aren't crazy, we use insanity as a defense against letting people too close to us.
- The problem with religion is that it's always concerned with what happens after you die, not what
happens while you're alive.
- My tolerance for story, bullshit, and the victim is very thin; I'll have to work on that.
- Think, think, think, I disagree; Don't think, Don't think, Don't think.
- Do you really think that this vast, awe inspiring, magnificent, fantastic, beautiful and improbable life
could be described and understood by any one religion? Or any one philosophy? Or any one book?
Not likely.
- I think at the hour of our death, all questions will be answered.
- If guilt was a currency, we'd all be millionaires.
- A cemetery is the most ridiculous use of land I can imagine.
- Death is natures way of telling you to slow down.
- Too bad most Christians aren't more like Christ.
- I can't understand why compassion is considered to be a soft quality; truth is brutal, no matter how
gently it is administered.
- You can't scare an alcoholic. How do you scare someone who is already terrified?
- The Vatican is the largest land owner in the world.
- He lies like an eyewitness.
- Judge not, lest ye be judged.
- The still small voice, is just that.
- There are very few things that matter to me anymore, but those that do, I would die for.
- My life has been spent creating a distance between myself and the peace inside of me. (NicA)
- Why do your children ignore you? They intuitively reject hypocrisy.
- Most things in life are trivial.
- Let me get my head out of my ass, so I can get my foot out of my mouth.
- How is it that a hooker always has unreliable eyesight?
- Fix, manage and control.
- Boy it is tiring running the world.
- 90% of all our communication is non verbal; body language.
- Why would anyone pay attention to what others think of them? Believe me, they are so concerned
with their lives that you don't matter to them anyway.
- Quit bitching about what you don't have, and start being grateful for what you do.
- Quit bitching about anything.
- Thank you God for the moment of clarity.
- Wow, time goes by fast. The older I get, the faster it goes.
- From the phone call to AA: I realized and accepted that I was an alcoholic; I was given the desire to
move into recovery; and the obsession to alcohol was lifted from me; from the phone call! How's
that for a gift of love?
- Women who live together will cycle at the same time; that's amazing isn't it?
- The Chinese believe that we communicate on several different energetic levels outside of common
language.
- Physician, heal thyself.
- Jung believed we carry 4 distinct archetypes: King (Queen), Warrior, Magician, and Lover. Each one
has a healthy developmental aspect and mature aspect; each one can also carry a specific pathology.
Those sicknesses come into our consciousness through a process called the "shadow."
- Sometimes the most compassionate thing to do is slam the door in some one's face.
- God has been there for me throughout, even when I didn't want Him to. How's that for loving?
- We transmit the amount of information contained in all the libraries of the world everyday electronically.
- Computers get twice as fast, and half as expensive every 6 months. That's called competition.
- Why do we buy our oil from Canada and Mexico? Just a question.
- Restless, irritable and discontent.
- The most important person in the room sits in your chair.
- There is no time, only a constant series of nows.
- How does the program work? It works just fine.
- They have developed a process to desalinate ocean water to make it drinkable; amazing.
- I spend a lot of time trying to hide those things about me that others already know.
- 90% of our information about the world comes through our eyesight.
- Democracy is a poor form of government, but it's the best one we have.
- It's all good.
- Prayer works, give it a try.
- The key is to want what I'm gonna get.
- Guilt is such a useless pastime.
- I have been sober a long time, I have never heard sex, death, or love chosen as a topic. Not that
those things matter to us.
- Capitalism brings prosperity. Don't believe me, just look at the stark difference between North and
South Korea.
- 35 years sober is impressive; 35 days is miraculous.
- Life is difficult, ok.
- Nothing is secure.
- California is the 7th largest economy in the world, in the world; one American state.
- Control, the Olympic Event.
- Freedom is God given and resides in the heart of every human being. Think of how many people don't
have the ability to decide their own fates. Sad.
- So your mother and father hated you, don't take it personally.
- There is no punishment severe enough for anyone who hurts a child.
- It works, if you work it.
- What's important is what you learn after you know it all.
- We are who we are because we have a system that allows us to self actualize.
- Empathy, when you can fake that, you got it beat.
- God gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth. How come that is so hard for me to remember?
- Shame, the hot potato that's passed around the alcoholic family.
- Carry the message, not the alcoholic.
- I sat with my grandmother right before she died at 93. I said, "wow 93 years, that's a long time."
she replied, "yes it is, and it went by like that," as she snapped her fingers.
- Resentments: remember, it is better to give em, than to get em.
- Truth with love. I'll try to keep that in mind.
- The 12 steps are but suggestions; but it is better for you if you see them as demands. Just a suggestion.
- There was a guy at the meeting earlier with 40 days. He has no idea how much he helps me.
- Addictions: see if any of these make sense: worry, control, rage, perfectionism, depression, chaos,
romance, people, shame, failure, loss, money, codependency, anxiety, fear, aggression, self pity,
guilt, power.
- I feel so bad since you've been gone, it's almost like you're still here (Cyrus)
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