Category Archives: Touchstones
Daily Recovery Reading – May 13, 2012
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. —Marion Anderson Because of our resentments we sometimes get
Daily Recovery Reading – May 13, 2012
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. —Marion Anderson Because of our resentments we sometimes get
Daily Recovery Reading – May 7, 2012
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. —Edward R.
Daily Recovery Reading – May 7, 2012
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. —Edward R.
Daily Recovery Reading- March 22, 2012
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. —M. C. Richards Recovering men know this path is not always easy. We usually talk about the benefits
Daily Recovery Reading- March 22, 2012
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. —M. C. Richards Recovering men know this path is not always easy. We usually talk about the benefits
Daily Recovery Reading – March 20,2012
New life comes from shedding old skins and pressing through the darkness toward the light. Spring is the season of new beginnings and of growth. —Karen Kaiser Clark All of us in this program have had great turning points in
Daily Recovery Reading – March 20,2012
New life comes from shedding old skins and pressing through the darkness toward the light. Spring is the season of new beginnings and of growth. —Karen Kaiser Clark All of us in this program have had great turning points in
Daily Recovery Reading – March 16, 2012
When a man’s self is hidden from everybody else …it seems also to become hidden even from himself, and it permits disease and death to gnaw into his substance without his clear knowledge. —Sidney Jourard A man’s recovery is in
Daily Recovery Reading – March 16, 2012
When a man’s self is hidden from everybody else …it seems also to become hidden even from himself, and it permits disease and death to gnaw into his substance without his clear knowledge. —Sidney Jourard A man’s recovery is in
Daily Recovery Reading – March 14, 2012
This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing. —Margaret Atwood Men have often become victims by seeing themselves as saviors. We forgot that we have needs too. We thought if
Daily Recovery Reading – March 14, 2012
This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing. —Margaret Atwood Men have often become victims by seeing themselves as saviors. We forgot that we have needs too. We thought if
Daily Recovery Reading – March 7, 2012
A controller doesn’t trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos. —Rita Mae Brown It is very hard for most
Daily Recovery Reading – March 7, 2012
A controller doesn’t trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos. —Rita Mae Brown It is very hard for most
Daily Recovery Reading – February 22, 2012
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. —Seneca When we reach a stressful time in our lives, our vision gets narrow. We fail to
Daily Recovery Reading – February 22, 2012
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. —Seneca When we reach a stressful time in our lives, our vision gets narrow. We fail to
Daily Recovery Reading – February 11, 2012
Too much agreement kills a chat. —Eldridge Cleaver Many of us haven’t learned there is room for disagreement in a relationship. Some men who grew up in addicted families saw a lot of pain, anger, and quarreling. Many learned to
Daily Recovery Reading – February 11, 2012
Too much agreement kills a chat. —Eldridge Cleaver Many of us haven’t learned there is room for disagreement in a relationship. Some men who grew up in addicted families saw a lot of pain, anger, and quarreling. Many learned to
Daily Recovery Reading – February 9, 2012
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil. —Hannah Arendt How often have we found ourselves in a predicament and innocently saying, “How did I
Daily Recovery Reading – February 9, 2012
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil. —Hannah Arendt How often have we found ourselves in a predicament and innocently saying, “How did I
