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Old 11-22-2004, 08:28 PM
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hawkgazer
A Drunk taking a day off!
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Boston,MA
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Page 449 (3rd edition...) ACCEPTANCE

I know some people get really tired of the big book quotes...but this one saves me. My sponsor suggested I type it up and put it somewhere in the house where I see it all the time. It's on my kitchen cabinet. I figured while I had it typed, I might as well cut&paste, and share the wealth! And it's just as easy to print it out...

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation – some fact of my life – unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could no stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes.
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