Category: Sober Living Inspiration

For Today:

“Practicing A.A.’s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption 

of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still

drinking can dream of taking. Who wishes to be rigorously

honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to

another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares

anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and 

prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying

to carry A.A.’s message to the next sufferer? No, the average

alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, doesn’t care for this

prospect – unless he has to do these things in order to stay

alive himself.”

12 Steps & 12 Traditions, pg. 24

Step One

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For Today:

“All of us were placing increasing emphasis on Dr. Silkworth’s

expression describing the alcoholic’s dilemma: the obsession

plus the allergy, By now we knew from experience that the new

prospect had to accept Step One or get no place.”

Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 161 

The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous

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For Today:

“The central fact of our lives today is the absolute

certainty that our Creator has entered into our

hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous.

He has commenced to accomplish those things for us

which we could never do by ourselves.”

Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 25

There Is A Solution

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For Today:

“Men and women drink essentially because they like the

effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that,

while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time

differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alco-

holic life seems the only normal one.”

Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. xxviii

The Doctor’s Opinion

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For Today:

“A.A. has taught me that I will have peace of mind in
exact proportion to the peace of mind that I bring into
the lives of other people.”

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, pgs. 550 & 551
Freedom From Bondage

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For Today:

“I know that my victory is none of my human doing.

I know that I must keep myself worthy of Divine help.

And the glorious thing is this: I am free, I am happy,

and perhaps I am going to have the blessed opportunity

of ‘passing it on.’ I say in all reverence – Amen.”

Experience, Strength and Hope, pg. 23

A Feminine Victory

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For Today:

    “I once knew a woman who was crying before a

meeting. She was approached by a five-year-old girl

who told her, ‘You don’t have to cry here. This is a

good place. They took my daddy and they made him

better.’ That is exactly what A.A. did for me; it took

me and it made me better. For that I am eternally

grateful.”

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4^th Edition, pg. 431

Window of Opportunity

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For Today:

“We, who have recovered from serious 

drinking, are miracles of mental health.”

Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 133

The Family Afterward

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For Today:

“One definition of a bottom is the point when the last

thing you lost or the next thing you are about to lose

is more important to you than booze. That point is

different for everyone, and some of us die before we

get there.”

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4^th Edition, pg. 425

Window of Opportunity

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For Today:

“Maybe there are as many definitions of spiritual awakening
as there are people who have had them. But certainly each
genuine one has something in common with all the others.
And these things which they have in common are not too
hard to understand. When a man or a woman has a spiritual
awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has
now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could
not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.”

12 Steps & 12 Traditions, pgs. 106 & 107
Step Twelve

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