Overheard

02/22/2006 Dr Wingnut Recovery Comments Off on Overheard
  • There is a big difference between saying what you do and doing what you say.
  • Learn to listen; listen to learn.
  • Many of us fail to recognize opportunity because most of the time it is disguised as hard work.
  • I’m not one of those people who has memorized the Big Book.  I figure that’s OK because it’s all written down for me to look up.
  • It’s the Twelve Steps, not the twelve standstills.
  • We all know that God never closes one door without opening another, but it can be painful in the hallway.
  • God can’t hand you anything new until you let go of what you’re holding.
  • Every AA meeting is a payment on your sobriety.
  • My problems are self-made.
  • Yesterday is so far in the past I can’t see it; tomorrow is too distant in the future to be seen.  So I’ll take a good look at what I can see — today.
  • If you keep bringing your body, your mind will follow.
  • Sober saying: Easy does it — but do it!
  • Sober truth: “Poor me” can lead to “pour me” — a drink!
  • Sober reflection: We have to like ourselves to be able to laugh at ourselves.
  • Sober corollary: Wherever there are two recovering alcoholics, there’s a meeting.
  • Sober saying: There’s nothing that can happen to me today that my Higher Power and I — together — can’t handle.
  • If you don’t drink again or use again, you don’t ever have to go back to where you came from.
  • A mistake is evidence that someone has tried to do something.
  • I never got drunk watching another drink.  I never got serenity watching others do the steps.  This is a program of action.
  • The program is for participants, not spectators.
  • When does it get better?  It gets better when your behavior changes.
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