March-15 topics

From Pancake Marathon:

yeah, it would be something that can lead us to being happy, but it is not happiness; acceptance is at the level of us being able to find that we are able to have unity: as unity is not about being happy just yourself, for it is about the acceptance that you have a part to play together, that you can be happy if you change the way you look at it; as that is the key, to recovery, to be able to find away to having everybody walk away happy.

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Principles before personalities is something that helps us to be able to get to see that Recovery doesn't happen overnight by the power of q-tip, as that is what we are Pass it on with One Day At A Time the love that we are going to think upon what is the time that we get too Stick with the winners - Win with the stickers as for simply it is, But For The Grace Of God we push and in pushing we see that god helps us to see that we Don't Use No Matter What with Cultivate an attitude of gratitude with faith and the gifts that we give with kiss at the point Is your program powered by Will Power or Higher Power?

Acronyms

Slogans

Slogans are wisdom written in shorthand and Acronyms are just the sum/the Virtues, of all that wisdom: WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives

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"The get-togethers after our meetings are good opportunities to share things that we didn't get to discuss during the meeting." Basic Text p. 29
Active addiction set us apart from society, isolating us. Fear was at the core of that alienation. We believed that if we let others get to know us, they would only find out how terribly flawed we were. Rejection would be only a short step away. When we come to our first NA meeting, we are usually impressed by the familiarity and friendliness we see other recovering addicts share. We, too, can quickly become a part of this fellowship, if we allow ourselves to. One way to start is by tagging along to the local coffee shop after the meeting.
At these gatherings, we can let down the walls that separate us from others and discover things about ourselves and other NA members. One on one, we can sometimes disclose things that we may be reluctant to share at the group level. We learn to make small talk at many of these late-night gatherings and forge deep, strong friendships as well.
With our newfound friends in NA, we no longer have to live lives of isolation. We can become a part of the greater whole, the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous.
Just for today: I will break free of isolation. I will strive to feel a part of the NA Fellowship.

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When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 52
Like a blind man gradually being restored to sight, I slowly groped my way to the Third Step. Having realized that only a Power greater than myself could rescue me from the hopeless abyss I was in, I knew that this was a Power that I had to grasp, and that it would be my anchor in the midst of a sea of woes. Even though my faith at that time was minuscule, it was big enough to make me see that it was time for me to discard my reliance on my prideful ego and replace it with the steadying strength that could only come from a Power far greater than myself.

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