The First Step serves me as gasoline does an automobile: I draw regularly on the reservoir of acceptance of my powerlessness, but have to stop from time to time to fill up again on the insight that I will never […]
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What Is Really Important?
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away […]
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When we understand that we are truly powerless over other people, but not ourselves, we discover our willingness to change. The 12 Steps give us a blueprint to follow to become self-confident and assertive – the very type of person […]
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To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude . . . because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions. ~ […]
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True friendship can occur only among equals. ~ Plato One amazing fact about most, if not all, people who come to Overeaters Anonymous have, as long as they can remember perceived the universe as consisting of perhaps some on a […]
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