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Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.

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Alcohol and drugs are not the problems they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.
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At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.
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Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.
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Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.
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Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.
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The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.
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choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.
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Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.
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Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.
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The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.
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The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.
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