AA Thought for the Day

April 30, 2003

Instincts

As we grow spiritually,
we find that our old attitudes toward our instincts
need to undergo drastic revisions.
Our desires for emotional security and wealth,
for personal prestige and power,
for romance,
and for family satisfactions--
all these have to be tempered and redirected.
We have learned that the satisfaction of instincts
cannot be the sole end and sum of our lives.
If we place instincts first,
we have got the cart before the horse;
we shall be pulled backward into disillusionment.
- Bill W.

Reprinted from Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Page 114, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Learn to change, change to learn.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

H A L T = Happy, Appreciative, Lovable, Teachable.


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