2006
“It’s important to monitor my thinking, to be conscious of what thoughts I’m hugging to my heart, inviting to stay in my mind, encouraging to hang around my head.”
From Beginners’ Book
FEBRUARY 9
“Toward Reality”
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, APRIL 1980
“The beginning of maturing for me was becoming willing to try to face the realities of my own life, a day at a time, and letting go of my childhood fantasies of living happily ever after in a perfect world made up of perfect people.”
From Spiritual Awakenings
FEBRUARY 10
“Patience”
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, JUNE 1980
“Not until I became aware that God’s delay is not necessarily God’s denial of prayer, was I willing to let a Power greater than myself determine how and when I was to receive the things I truly needed, rather than the things for which I howled.”
From Spiritual Awakenings
FEBRUARY 11
“Why Alcoholics Anonymous Is Anonymous”
AA CO-FOUNDER, BILL W., JANUARY 1955
“The temporary or seeming good can often be the deadly enemy of the permanent best.”
From The Language of the Heart
FEBRUARY 12
“The Hoper”
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, APRIL 1990
“Hope is tremendous progress for someone who once was ‘hopeless.’”
From AA Grapevine
FEBRUARY 13
“How Is My Now?”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 2001
“I borrowed others’ faith for a long time, and now I’m beginning to get a bit of my own.”
From Beginners’ Book
FEBRUARY 14
“The Next Frontier: Emotional Sobriety”
AA CO-FOUNDER, BILL W., JANUARY 1958
“My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive.”
From The Language of the Heart
FEBRUARY 15
“Tolerance Is Important”
TUSCOLA, ILLINOIS, MAY 1950
“Through our failures and trials we get the opportunity to soundly test our merits and virtues.”
From AA Grapevine
FEBRUARY 16
“Stepping into the Sunlight”
LA CANADA, CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 1989
“Whereas I used to function at two speeds—fast and stopped—a daily fix of meditation averages those two extremes out to a more gentle and efficient cruise rate.”
From Spiritual Awakenings
FEBRUARY 17
“The Portals of Service”
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 2006
“Whether it was pouring coffee in my home group, or going on a Twelfth-Step call, I entered a new pattern of thinking: I thought not only about myself, but about others.”
From Beginners’ Book
FEBRUARY 18
“Modesty One Plank for Good Public Relations”
AA CO-FOUNDER, BILL W., AUGUST 1945
“We need to constantly scrutinize ourselves carefully, in order to make everlastingly certain that we shall always be strong enough and single-purposed enough from within, to relate ourselves rightly to the world without.”
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