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September 1

"I don't need to project the future or cry about the past. Just live to the best of my ability, one day at a time."

AA Around the World

Bangkok, Thailand, October 1988
"The Best of My Ability"
AA Around the World: Adventures in Recovery



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September 2

"By admitting where I was at fault, I was given the ability to forgive ... With forgiveness came a freedom that I had not anticipated. The amends had required nothing but courage, and a faith that my Higher Power would carry me where I had been too afraid to walk alone."

Step by Step Book

Sterling, Alaska, September 1993
"Scene of the Crime"
Step By Step



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September 3

"I had a really good reason for working Step Nine and making amends to my family and friends. I didn't want a parade of people at my funeral singing, 'Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead!'"

Step by Step Book

Sarasota, Fla., February 2009
"Heard at Meetings"

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September 4

"AA is spiritual, is the eye of the hurricane, is my refuge and my comfort."

Spiritual Awakenings Vol. 1

Oklahoma City, Okla., December 1992
"Eye of the Hurricane"



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September 5

"My Higher Power works incognito, defying definition and requiring faith."

Spiritual Awakenings Vol. 1

State College, Penn., April 1994
"Working Incognito"
Spiritual Awakenings

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September 6

"I felt myself move with a new power, courage, and faith that, by the grace of God, I have acquired as a result of working the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous."

Spiritual Awakenings II
Click to learn more
Conn., June 2005
"Life and Taxes"
Spiritual Awakenings II



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September 7

"The individual must sometimes place the welfare of his fellows ahead of his own uncontrolled desires. Were the individual to yield nothing to the common welfare there could be no society at all - only self-will run riot; anarchy in the worst sense of the word."

Celebrating The Language of the Heart

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., July 1946
"The Individual in Relation to AA as a Group"

September 8

"I am feeling much better now, and I thank God for AA and my good friends. I have learned how to accept their help."

Emotional Sobriety II

Queens, N.Y., February 1971
"Carrying the Message"
Emotional Sobriety II



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September 9

"When I'm willing to pay the price for top-shelf sobriety, 'action' is still the magic word."

Emotional Sobriety II

Craig, Colo., January 1997
"Paying the Price for Improvement"
Emotional Sobriety II

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September 10

"We who live in the haven of AA cling together with an intensity of purpose which the outside world seldom comprehends. The anarchy of the individual melts away. Self-love subsides and democracy becomes a reality. We begin to know true freedom of the spirit."

Celebrating The Language of the Heart

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., July 1946
"The Individual in Relation to AA as a Group"

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September 11

"Alcoholics Anonymous has given me something of real value that I can share with others."

Spiritual Awakenings II
Click to learn more
Tucson, Ariz., May 2004
"The Fugitives"

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September 12

"Ever so slowly, I could feel myself changing. Things that had seemed important were no longer important. There was inside me a warming, a softening, a stirring, as the petals of a rosebud stir almost imperceptibly into a blossom."

Spiritual Awakenings II
Neoga, Ill., February 1974
"There Can Be Love and Laughter"

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September 13

"I am learning how to cope with life, people, and situations, not as I want them to be, but as they really are."

Emotional Sobriety II

Millburn, N.J., July 1971
"Reality Can Be Uncomfortable"



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September 14

"The way our 'worthy' alcoholics have sometimes tried to judge the 'less worthy' is, as we look back on it, rather comical. Imagine, if you can, one alcoholic judging another!"

Celebrating The Language of the Heart

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., August 1946
"Who Is a Member of Alcoholics Anonymous?"
The Language of the Heart

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September 15

"The next time you feel hurt, outraged, bitter or resentful - the beginning of many a slip as attested to by AA speakers - try to remember quickly that you haven't been mortally harmed. In nearly all cases, it's just a pain in your feelings!"

Emotional Sobriety II

Elmhurst, N.Y., March 1950
"Got a Pain in Your Feelings?"