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Feb 3, 2004 6:55 pm
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Goodmorning all. I am writing regarding the poll taking place on the list. I have been waiting to make a decision until enough people voted. Out of 1,423...
I am sorry to bother you all again. Since posting my last message, many of you have voted (thank you!) but some of you have contacted me regarding the...
The following DailyReflections poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: I have received many wonderful suggestions from hundreds of...
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Feb 24, 2004 8:07 am
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I had the poll results sent to all of you, so you should have them by now and are aware that 55.53% of the votes were for opening the list for members to send...
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. Charles P. Steinmetz We often pass up the chance to ask a question of someone because we don't...
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." Oliver Wendell Holmes Laura writes: My newly four-year-old son knocks over a glass of...
The example of good men is visible philosophy. -English Proverb Just as we do not live in a vacuum, untouched by others and touching no one, so too, our...
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Mar 1, 2004 8:42 am
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Only one member, out of 1400, has submitted a daily inspirational thought. For the list to continue, we need members to give as well as take. Please submit...
"Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and...
The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence. --Sue Atchley Ebaugh We all want to matter to others. Very often in the...
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. -Arthur Somers Roche A...
Accepting ourselves While driving one day, a woman's attention focused on the license plate of the car ahead. The license read: "B-WHO-UR." How can I? she ...
A "spiritual experience" to me meant attending meetings, seeing a group of people, all there for the purpose of helping each other; hearing the Twelve Steps...
In order to arrive at possessing everything, desire to possess nothing. - St. John of the Cross Expectations can cause havoc in our daily living. We all have a...
Life is full of choices...and the ones we make each day reminds us what kind of person we are becoming. If you make the best choices you can ..day by...
THE COMPANY YOU KEEP anonymous It Is Better To Be Alone, Than In The Wrong Company Tell me who your best friends are, and I will tell you who you are. If you ...
It is by tiny steps that we ascend, to the stars. -Jack Leedstrom Two years after a painful divorce, Jan decided it was time to pick up the pieces of her life....
Perfection is expressing God's will enthusiastically. Sponsors tell us that this is a simple program we are prone to complicate. Reflecting on our lives, we...
We can't hear God's voice when we're judging someone. We don't always want to hear God's voice. There are moments when we love the power we feel while judging...
Maize"Over a period of drinking years, we've proved to ourselves and to everybody else that we can't stop drinking by our own will power. We have been proved...
"And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I feel disturbed it is because I find some person, place, thing, ore situation some fact of my...
Keep It Simple When coping with the baffling and often overwhelming effects of alcoholism, the simpler and more straightforward the approach, the better. The...
My grandfather took me to the fish pond on the farm when I was about seven, and he told me to throw a stone into the water. He told me to watch the circles...
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles...
Some days, every aspect of my life seems overwhelming and crazy, and I feel so confused. On these days, I need to remember that I only have to do what needs to...
Risking Vulnerability "As we grow, we learn to overcome the tendency to run and hide from ourselves and our feelings." -Basic Text. P. 81 Rather than risk...
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard One of Mark Twain's most interesting writings states we should live ...
