Absolute Honesty:

“No lying, no cheating, no stealing; in a word, in all your affairs, simply and absolutely no falsehood.”

Absolute Purity:

“Purity of mind, purity of body, purity of the emotions, purity of heart, sexual purity.”

Absolute Unselfishness:

“Seeking what is right and true ahead of what I want in every situation.”

Absolute Love:

“Loving ... See more

I work with extroverts, people who were never the kid no one wanted to sit next to on the bus

Today I pray that money comes to me with ease and clarity. I pray to spend and save within my value system. I remember that debt doesn’t make me bad or unworthy. My money business is my business, not anyone else’s. God as my employer, I surrender to spirit’s will for me.

I finished a notebook (Field Notes United States of Letterpress edition) and typed up anything worth remembering.

It's amazing us alcoholics have regular access to a space where we can authentically express ourselves without judgement and lean on the community for comfort.

I felt sick in that house all the time because it’s a terrible feeling to be cast in the role of co-conspirator before you’re old enough to choose, or to have any say at all. It makes you feel meaningless and powerless and like you’re part of something secretive and ugly, even if you don’t fully understand what it is.

“A.A. REGENERATION”

Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one.

— ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 46

A thousand beatings by John Barleycorn did not encourage me to admit defeat. I believed it was my moral obligation to conquer my ... See more

I think shame is completely and totally counterproductive when applied to alcoholics and addicts: It simply recreates one of the conditions that was a foundation for all of the drinking and using.