Reflection for the DayWe are often told in the Program that “more will be revealed.” As we are restored to health and become increasingly able to live comfortably in the real world without using chemicals, we begin to see many things in a new light. Many of us have come to realize, for example, that our arch-enemy, anger, comes disguised in many shapes and colors: intolerance, contempt, snobbishness, rigidity, tension, sarcasm, distrust, anxiety, envy, hatred, cynicism, discontent, self-pity, malice, suspicion, jealousy. Do I let my feelings get the best of me?Today I PrayMay I recognize that my anger, like a dancer at a masquerade, wears many forms and many faces. May I strip off its several masks and know it for what it is.Today I Will RememberAnger wears a thousand masks.
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Reflection For The Day
Getting over years of suspicion and other self-protective mechanisms can hardly be an overnight process. We’ve become thoroughly conditioned to feeling and acting misunderstood and unloved — whether we really were or not. Some of us may need time and practice to break out of our shell and the seemingly comfortable familiarity of solitude. Even though we begin to believe and know we’re no longer alone, we tend to sometimes feel and act in the old ways. Am I taking it easy? Am I learning to wear The Program and life like a loose garment?
Today I Pray
May I expect no sudden, total reversal of all my old traits. My sobriety is just a beginning. May I realize that the symptoms of my disease will wear off gradually. If I slip back, now and then, into my old self-pity bag or my grandiosity, may I not be discouraged, but grateful. At last, I can face myself honestly and not let my delusions get the best of me.
Today I Will Remember
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Suspicion, and its first cousin, jealousy, are the world’s most bitter poisons. They are compounded from surmise, rumor and malicious gossip and are mixed in the retort of confused and unsure minds.
They serve no useful purpose on earth, but they torture all who possess them. It is much better for a person to have his worst fears justified than to live with unproven suspicions.
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July Suspicion, and its first cousin, jealousy, are the world’s most bitter poisons. They are compounded from surmise, rumor and malicious gossip and are mixed in the retort of confused and unsure minds.They serve no useful purpose on earth, but they torture all who possess them. It is much better for a person to have his worst fears justified than to live with unproven suspicions.
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