When one alcoholic/addict shares with another alcoholic/addict

[MajestyJo]

November 17

"Few of us will ever be famous, but we can all be great because we serve each other."

Thank You For Sharing

McAllen, TX, October 1997
"Internal Restoration,"
Thank You for Sharing

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November 18

"How wonderful to be sober, to be able to think clearly (at times, at least), and to become aware of some portion of the greater wisdom concealed so deeply within myself."

Voice of Long Term Sobriety

Columbus, OH, April 1981
"A New Way of Looking at Life,"
Voices of Long-Term Sobriety

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November 19

"The best university for me -- the best school, the best teaching -- was in analyzing mistakes that I'd made and problems I created because of these mistakes. Not my successes."

AA Around the World

Warsaw, Poland, October 1996
"A Smiling Man, A Happy Man,"
AA Around the World

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November 20

"I'd like to develop Step Eleven further -- for the benefit of the complete doubter, the unlucky one who can't believe it has any real merit at all .... As he goes along with his process of prayer, he begins to add up the results. If he persists, he will almost surely find more serenity, more tolerance, less fear, and less anger. He will acquire a quiet courage, the kind that doesn't strain him. He can look at so-called failure and success for what they really are. Problems and calamity will begin to mean instruction, instead of destruction. He will feel freer and saner ... His sense of purpose and of direction will increase. His tensions and anxieties will commence to fade. His physical health is likely to improve. Wonderful and unaccountable things will start to happen. Twisted relations in his family and on the outside will unaccountably improve.

"Even if few of these things happen, he will still find himself in possession of great gifts. When he has to deal with hard circumstances he can face them and accept them. He can now accept himself and the world around him."

Celebrating The Language of the Heart

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., June 1958
"Take Step Eleven"
The Language of the Heart

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November 21

"Until today, at least, I am getting further away from that first drink, which is the one that inevitably leads me to complete disaster."

AA Around the World

Caracas, Venezuela, May 1971
"My Name Is Adolfo,"