- A critical spirit is poisonous. Bitterness cannot grow in the soil of a grateful soul. When you have gratitude in your soul–bitterness cannot get rooted in that space.
- Comparison is a killer!”
- I can’t. God can. I think I’ll let God!” (OA 12 and 12)
- We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.” BB p30
- A sponsor said, “Why” is a management question and you aren’t management.
- If you don’t want to do something, just do it for 15 minutes.
- Self-will is anti-serenity.
- Don’t compare your inside to someone else’s outside.
- Don’t put your wishbone where your backbone should be.
- God (HP) is more a verb than a noun.
- Abstinence is a lifeboat. Stay in the boat.
- Focus on the steps. That’s where you will encounter your HP and receive the gifts of abstinence and right living.
- Love is endless forgiveness.
- People who are most in need of my love can be the most difficult to love.
- Do I want to be right or happy?
- Abstinence is a gift.
- Our disease is progressive but so is our recovery.
- Even though I know how bad it is to compulsively over eat I still go out and overeat. That’s what powerless means.
- Every character defect we have today has been useful to us at some point in our lives, and we need to recognize that fact. New Oa 12&12 p48
- Fear is the path to the Dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Yoda.
- On any given day I’m doing the best that I can.
- Abstinence, to me, is not a thing but a process.
- As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust.
- At that moment…more evil is brought into this world by people who are sure they are right.
- A peaceful soul is more important than having opinions.
- Have an attitude of gratitude.
- I see my Higher Power as a beam of light.
- Clear away not only the wreckage of the past but the wreckage of the day.
- Dance together with God, trusting God to lead.
- I don’t have to bring people to my way of thinking I just have to be kind.
- I remember reading that doing God’s will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right.
- I used to think that God couldn’t be bothered with small things but now I don’t mind asking him to pick out my wallpaper.
- I want to be around people who celebrate me not tolerate me.
- I will never be present with what I’m thinking but what I’m feeling in the present moment.
- OA doesn’t teach us how to handle food. It teaches how to handle life without food.
- I make mistakes. I am not a mistake.
- Any time I allow selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear to be a part of me, I block out spiritual things.
- Do the next right thing or next thing right.
- Anger is an emotion of injustice. Anger signals to me that there is injustice. What do a do with that anger?
- Do what you say. Say what you mean but not in a mean way.
- Work the program, not being sprinkled with it.
- Recovery doesn’t come from sitting in a chair. It comes from working the steps.
- Compliance vs surrender.
- Nothing is worse than a belly full of food and a head full of OA.
- Rubbing index and thumb along with breathing helps to meditate.
- Stuff your face or face your stuff.
- How can you surrender of you don’t trust.
- Happiness is loving what you have.
- Sarcasm tears at us.
- God (HP) chooses when you suffer and when you don’t.
- The more we get together, together, together…(kids’s song)
- We’re all stardust but don’t get on your high horse because garbage is stardust too.
- If you don’t turn around soon, you are going to get where you are going!
- I can walk through my program through the group.
- Abstinence is a state of mind that helps me not want to overeat.
- What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. (Big Book p85)
- Not only will this disease affect our weight and it will wreak havoc on all areas of our life.
- Live to recover recover to live.
- The further away from my bottom the more complacent I become.
- No one is too dumb for this program but you can be too smart.
- I’m not bad trying to be good but sick trying to get well.
- True gift of the program is sanity.
- Stay out of your head. It’s a dangerous neighborhood.
- If you feel guilty about something give yourself a pat on the back. That means you’re taking care of yourself.
- Truth without love is brutality.
- It is what it is.
- Food is the last thing to go.
- I am not the center of the universe.
- People pleasing is linked to fear.
- Not everyone in the world likes you.
- Recovery is an inside job.
- We don’t recover today by our actions of yesterday. God (HP) consciousness is our 6th sense.
- I’m not medicating, I’m meditating.
- Bless them, change me, send them everloving kindness.
- Pray wait trust. HP has a plan.
- Instinct plus ego equals addiction.
- You can’t think yourself into a new way of acting. You have to act yourself into a new way of thinking.
- Welcome to the club no one wants to join.
- I’m trying to work the program without giving up control.
- (for today March 28) If I stop “supervising” my weight loss, it will be taken care of – in God’s time. I pray for the willingness to do that.
- “We have what we need any time we are willing to” 12&12.
- Abstinence is like putting an octopus to bed (similar to the whack-a-mole scenario). I would like to add it’s also kind of like putting pajamas on one too.
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