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How Many Hours Have I Squandered Filled with Resentments?

7/8/2013

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"It is plain that a life that includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness.
To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worthwhile.

But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave.

We found it fatal.

For when harboring such feelings, we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit.  The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again.  And with us, to drink is to die."

                                                                                                              - Alcoholics Anonymous pg 66


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Grasping the Big Book

4/28/2013

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"I started reading the "Big Book" at home, and in every instance where it used the word "alcohol," I crossed it out and put in the word "food." As I read this book, my life began to unfold in front of me.  I cried and I laughed, because, for the first time, I understood so much.  That night, while reading the "Big Book," I saw and heard what I'd denied about myself all my life. I could hardly wait for the next OA meeting, so I could ask the people there if they, too, grasped what this book said. I was on fire with excitement.  At last I was real, and I was alive.  That was 150 pounds ago, and my weight has not wavered more than 10 pounds in the almost ten years since."                                                    -Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition, Pg. 69
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