"QUOTES"
"Life’s under no obligation to
give us what we expect."anon
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DAILY
Some Predecessors of AA
From: "Robert Stonebraker"
I would assume that "Nell and Frank,"
below, would be Nell Wing and Frank M."
Bob Stonebraker
A little bit of info gathered a few years back from a presentation by Nell and Frank (previous Archivists in GSO).
Some Predecessors of AA
Washingtonians: \Basic purpose: to solve people’s problems.
Operated for a period of approximately 25 years Sharing by personal experience held public meetings gathered members by personal contact had a desire to help others had more than a million signatures were strongest about 1841-1842 began dying out about 1846-1847 Had basic principles of love, sympathy, kindness, charity
Decline: because they had no adequate organization had no guidelines (such as traditions, etc.) Had no real direction work with alcoholics not required (although they did work with alcoholics to a certain extent) had no anonymity function
Emmanuel Movement: Took part of the ideas of Washingtonians added the religious content started about 1908-1909 treated people with alcohol problems and nervous disorders used Christian principles (religious) used physical medicine strongly psychological stressed total abstinence had strong group support existed through to about 1929
Decline: perhaps a little slower than with Washingtonians
but basically from drifting from their basic ideas. Along the way other people got into the act with some of the same basic ideas and some good principles but fell apart for a variety of reasons-generally from getting away from their basic principles.
Edward Worster-somewhere about 1910 Another man by the name of Baylor at approximately same time.
Richard Peabody: Peabody Movement-1930’s wrote a book called "Common Sense Of Drinking" stressed physical condition (medical)
surrender, deflation at depth removal of doubts and anxieties
control of thoughts control of will power self-expression Jacoby Club-1909 tried to help alcoholics stressed being honest regular meetings members contribute regularly work on rehabilitation self help much of problem to be blamed on spouse spiritual and psychological help still operated in Boston in 1940’s much work of the club performed by salaried people after 1940’s concentrated on helping people with other than alcohol problems.
William James (Varieties of Religious Experience)
gained much of his knowledge and experience from his students
aware of the religious conversion experience in many people
added the importance of psychology stressed personal contact with God talked about fears, moral ideals, remorse.
Oxford Groups-1921-Frank Buchman, ordained Lutheran minister Buchman, 1908: bible study 1200 students world changing by personal soul changing 1928 in South Africa: first-century Christian Fellowship began to be known as Oxford Group 500,000 copies of Oxford Book printed 1930: Sam Schumacher became involved with Oxford Groups 1931 Roland Hazard got sober, began working with Sam Schumacher at Calvary Mission, subsequently carried the message to Ebby Thatcher, who carried the message to Bill Wilson
The rest is AA history.
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ABRAHAM
1.Your Wish is Granted - Accept that it’s Done
Abe: You’re wanting to diffuse any sense of lack within your experience… For example, if it’s relative to dollars, "Certainly I’m wanting more dollars but I’m not wanting more dollars because I’m in a place of lack, or of not enough dollars. There are plenty of dollars coming".
Your dominant work is to diffuse any feeling of lack, or any feeling of pushing against anything. That’s the way you hold yourself in this place of greater allowance.
We want to find ways to convince you that the Well-Being that you’ve been asking for is being answered. Your wish is granted. Now it’s time for you to start accepting that it is done.
In other words,
The financial institution has granted my request for a home loan. The school I have chosen for my child is fantastic.
My body feels great.
The money is flowing.
My mate truly adores me.
I have creations within me that are expanding.
There is beauty before me.
Every day of my life will be delicious.
My future is bright.
There is no such thing as decline.
I am a vessel continually infused with powerful Energy.
Well-being truly abounds.
The earth spins in its orbit.
The tomatoes continue to grow.
My cells know what to do.
My breathing mechanism is perfect.
My metabolism is perfect.
My elimination system is perfect.
My blood knows what to do…"
In the same way that you don’t put the sun coming up on your To Do List… Just appreciate yourself into the Well-Being that is natural to you.
Guest: I’ve had a really long To Do list, haven’t I?
Abe: Yes, because you’ve been trying to justify your worthiness through it. And nobody’s watching. That’s the important thing. All that worthiness you’ve been striving for - is misguided.
Guest: Well, every statement you’ve made, I fully feel and agree with. And I’ll just enjoy myself.
Abraham Portland, OR 5-20-00
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Vernon Howard’s SECRETS OF LIFE
"Be logical not theological."
A Treasury of Trueness, # 1711
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SEEDS FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR MIND
Labels limit us
"When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be."
– Lao Tzu
"As long as I am this
or that, I am not all things."
– Meister Eckhart
"Your only limitations are those
you set up in your mind,
or permit others to set up for you."
– Og Mandino
The Daily Guru
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A SCATTERING OF SEEDS
BUDDHA QUOTES
He who experiences the unity of
life sees his own Self in all beings,
and all beings in his own Self,
and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Buddha
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HUMOR
Bumper Stickers
I need someone real bad. Are you real bad?
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
The more you complain the longer God makes you live.
I R S: We’ve got what it takes to take what you’ve got.
Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
Reality is a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs.
Out of my mind - back in five minutes.
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" I have a G.E.D.
:Genetically engineered to drink." anon
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"First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn’t work."
~Alcoholics Anonymous,
4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 62~
Guidance
Walk day by day in the path of spiritual progress. |
If you persist, remarkable things will happen.
When we look back, we realize the things which
came to us when we put ourselves in God’s hands,
were better than anything we could have planned.
Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will
presently live in a new and wonderful world,
no matter what your present circumstances!
~1976, 2001AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 100~
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ABRAHAM
1.We Have Not Had this Conversation in This Way
We have not had this conversation in this way with anyone before.
We can tell from you that if you will put these questions to yourself, "How can I be happy when…?" And then make your statement of what you think’s gone awry.
And then do your best to be a little more happy even though that has happened. What’s going to happen is, you are going to shore up your vibration, until those things just fall by the wayside.
Do you know if you could answer the question and fulfill the answer, "How can I be happy when my house hasn’t sold?" If you could ask that question for about 30 days to the point that within that 30 days you are not unhappy because the house hasn’t sold, it will sell!
If you ask the questions, "How can I be happy when I haven’t found my life partner?" If you could ask that question for about 30 days until you’re happy even though you haven’t found what you consider to be your life partner, that partner would walk through the door and you would recognize them. It has to be that way!
When you find the way of soothing your own angst - which is the only thing that is keeping you from being a vibrational match. Here’s the picture…you are geting a watered down version of what you are wanting.
So you ask that question and bring yourself into closer and closer alignment with what you want. Now, you are offering ONE SIGNAL. It has to come into your experience now. It has to, it can’t NOT! It’s not possible for you to not get what you want. It is not possible - unless you are holding yourself in a position of split energy.
Abe ~ Phoenix 3/1/06B
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Vernon Howard’s SECRETS OF LIFE
"How many of you are strained? Shall I tell you why? Those of you
who raised your hand and those of you who didn’t are strained
simply because you want your way. You want your way instead of The Way. Here you are learning The Way and thank Heaven for the day when you put The Way ahead of your way. There is no other way for you to get rid of the strain and pain in your life. Now listen to what I said."
Here is Your Highway to Home
Let a Higher Spirit Guide You - MP3 CD
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SEEDS FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR MIND
Thinking of poverty or wealth?
"Being poor is a frame of mind."
– Mike Todd
"The law of abundance is that everything
replicates after its own kind.
Like is attracted to like.
If you want more wealth, concentrate of wealth;
think thoughts of abundance and wealth."
– Delfin Knowledge System
The Daily Guru
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A SCATTERING OF SEEDS
BUDDHA QUOTES
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their
suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Buddha
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"I have learned what the Grace of God feels like. " anon
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As Bill Sees It
Personality Change, p. 1
"It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in alcoholism.
That is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive.
But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without undergoing a profound personality change."
<< << << >> >> >>
We thought "conditions" drove us to drink, and when we tried to
correct these conditions and found that we couldn’t do so to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics. It never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet conditions, whatever they were.
1. Letter, 1940 2. 12 & 12, p. 47
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ABRAHAM
1.Manifestations - On the Other Side of Your Door
If you could see an aerial view of your life. An aerial view where we are seeing you electrically. It’s like you are standing here and over there is a doorway. And on the other side of the door is lined up all of these things that you’ve been wanting.
They’re just leaning on the door, just waiting for you to open it. They’ve been there from the first moment you asked for them: Your lovers; your perfect mates; your perfect bodies; your perfect bodily conditions; all of the money that you could ever imagine…all things that you’ve ever wanted. Things little and big. Things that you would call extraordinary and significant. And things that you would call not very significant. Everything that you have ever identified that you wanted, is lined up right outside that door.
And in the moment that you open the door, all things wanted flow to you. And then, we will hold a seminar on how to deal with the manifestations, with all this stuff that is flowing in.
One of the most significant things that we are wanting you to realize is, that you are not here about the manifestations. You are here about the FEELING of Energy flowing through you.
You are here to give birth to the desire. It is the DESIRE that is alive within you, that is everything. It is the desire that is alive within you, that we are all about. But the manifestations are fun too, aren’t they?
Abe Ashland, OR 5-16-00
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Vernon Howard’s SECRETS OF LIFE
"Don’t you tolerate yourself."
A Treasury of Trueness, # 2141
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SEEDS FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR MIND
A WORD
A CARELESS WORD MAY KINDLE STRIFE….
A CRUEL WORD MAY WRECK A LIFE……..
A TIMELY WORD MAY LEVEL STRESS…….
BUT A LOVING WORD MAY HEAL AND BLESS.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
–Helen Keller
In the process of growing to spiritual maturity, we all go through many adolescent stages.
–Miki L. Bowen
"Don’t water your weeds."
–Harvey Mackay
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
–Thomas Carruthers
Ah the dawn of a New Year! May we find inner peace, gentle spirit, God’s grace, forgiveness, dreams and prayers, Recovery.
–Shelley
SPIRITUALITY
"It is not that I think or believe
[in spirituality] but that I
know."
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Daily Guru
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A SCATTERING OF SEEDS
BUDDHA QUOTES
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha
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HUMOR
Bumper Stickers
My mother is a travel agent for guilt trips.
Senior Citizen: Give me my damn discount!
(Spotted on a passing motorcycle):
If you can read this, my wife fell off!
I used to be schizophrenic, but we’re OK now.
Wanted: Meaningful overnight relationship.
I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.
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"QUOTES"
"I have learned what the Grace of God feels like. " anon
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Nyquil: the stuffy, sneezy,
why-the-hell-is-the-room-spinning medicine.
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DAILY
Progress
Only Step One, where we made the 100
percent admission we were powerless
over alcohol, can be practiced with
absolute perfection. The remaining
eleven Steps state perfect ideals.
They are the goals toward which we look,
and the measuring sticks by which we estimate our progress.
~Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p.68~
Sacrifices
"At the beginning we sacrificed alcohol.
We had to, or it would have killed us.
But we couldn’t get rid of alcohol unless
we made other sacrifices.
Big-shotism and phony thinking had to go.
We had to toss self-justification, self-pity,
and anger right out the window.
We had to quit the crazy contest for personal
prestige and big bank balances.
We had to take personal responsibility for our
sorry state and quit blaming others for it.
Were these sacrifices? Yes, they were.
To gain enough humility and self-respect to
stay alive at all we had to give up what had
really been our dearest possessions -
our ambitions and our illegitimate pride."
Bill W., January 1955
~1988AAGrapevine,
The Language of the Heart, p. 210~
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Without knowing it, had we not been brought
to where we stood by a certain kind of faith?
For did we not believe in our own reasoning?
Did we not have confidence in our ability to think?
What was that but a sort of faith?
Yes, we had been faithful, abjectly faithful to
the God of Reason. So, in one way or another,
we discovered that faith had been involved all the time!
~Pgs. 53-54 - We Agnostics~
"Faith without works was dead, he said.
And how appallingly true for the alcoholic!
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge
his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice
for others, he could not survive the certain trials
and low spots ahead. If he did not work,
he would surely drink again, and if he drank,
he would surely die. Then faith would be dead indeed.
With us it is just like that."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill’s Story, pg. 14~
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ABRAHAM
1.creation is an automatic process
…and the thing that is most interesting is that
every single person without exception who
is living less than wanted things or every
single person who is reading about someone
who has lived unwanted things is putting a
new and improved version of that into their
vortex of creation, and the larger part of them
is already adhering to it, already a vibrational match to it.
Chicago, IL 20096 Disk 3
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Vernon Howard’s SECRETS OF LIFE
"Boldly close the door of the past behind you."
Cosmic Command, # 329
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SEEDS FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR MIND
Live your own life
"We don’t always know what makes us happy.
We know, instead, what we think SHOULD.
We are baffled and confused when our
attempts at happiness fail…
We are mute when it comes to naming
accurately our own preferences, delights,
gifts, talents. The voice of our original
self is often muffled, overwhelmed,
even strangled, by the voices of other
people’s expectations.
The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart."
– Julie Cameron
"It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. …
I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing."
– Oriah Mountain Dreamer
"Let me listen to me and not to them."
– Gertrude Stein
"What you must dare is to be yourself."
– Dag Hammarskjold
The Daily Guru
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A SCATTERING OF SEEDS
BUDDHA QUOTES
Every human being is the author
of his own health or disease.
Buddha
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HUMOR
Bumper Stickers
In dog years, I’m dead!
South Korea’s got Seoul!
Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye opener.
Above all else, sky.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Neither is government policy.
The trouble with the gene pool is that there’s no lifeguard.
God made us sisters; Prozac made us friends.
IRS: Be Audit You Can Be
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“QUOTES”
Let us always love the best in others —
and never fear their worst. " anon
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Step Ten - "Continued to take personal inventory
and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."
We "constructively criticized" someone who
needed it, when our real motive was to win
a useless argument. Or, the person concerned
not being present, we thought we were helping
others to understand him, when in actuality our
true motive was to feel superior by pulling
him down. We sometimes hurt those we love
because they need to be "taught a lesson,"
when we really want to punish. We were
depressed and complained we felt bad,
when in fact we were mainly asking for
sympathy and attention. This odd trait of mind
and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad
motive underneath a good one, permeates
human affairs from top to bottom.
This subtle and elusive kind of self-righteousness
can underlie the smallest act or thought.
Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct
these flaws is the essence of character-building
and good living. An honest regret for harms done,
a genuine gratitude for blessings received,
and a willingness to try for better things tomorrow
will be the permanent assets we shall seek.
pp. 94-95
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ABRAHAM
1.Just Melt into Bed Tonight
It is our desire that while you are in these magnificent bodies:
That you are able to relax more and resist less
That you are able to allow more, and fuss and worry less
That you can find ways of praising more and complaining less
Of basking more and struggling less
Of flowing more and paddling less
Of laughing more and crying less
That you can find ways of relaxing into the knowing that you are just right - in the right place, at the right time.
That there is not some bandwagon that you need to get on.
Or not some thing that you need to do differently than what you are doing.
We so want you to just melt into bed tonight as you put yourself there. And feel the warm embrace of Source Energy wrapping around you and through you.
Feeling nothing but appreciation and love for your willingness to play in this co-creative game with all of us.
Abraham Los Angeles, CA 2-2-08 Track 12
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Vernon Howard’s SECRETS OF LIFE
"Each time you question the necessity of a troubled day you
weaken the necessity for a troubled day."
1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle, # 119
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Take a break!
"A good rest is half the work."
– Yugoslav Proverb
"The time to relax is when you
don’t have time for it."
– Sidney J. Harris
"I still need more healthy rest in order
to work at my best.
My health is the main capital I have
and I want to administer it intelligently."
– Ernest Hemingway
The Daily Guru
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A SCATTERING OF SEEDS
BUDDHA QUOTES
Even death is not to be feared by
one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
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HUMOR
Bumper Stickers
Is it time for your medication or mine?
How do I set a laser printer to stun?
Getting on your feet means getting off your butt.
I’m not tense, just terribly, terribly alert.
If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.
First National Bank of Dad; Sorry, closed.
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