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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: November 10, 2010 11:14:29 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Note
> Anniversaries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
>

>
> November 10–self-centeredness
>
> This is November, the 11th month of the year;
> • The 11th Tradition reads: Our public relations policy is ba
> sed on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain per
> sonal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
> • The 11th Step: Sought through prayer and meditation to impr
> ove our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying onl
> y for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
> • The 11th Promise: We will intuitively know how to handle si
> tuations which used to baffle us.
> _________
>
>> A.A. Thought for the Day
>>
>> I am less self-centered. The world used to revolve around me
>> at the center. I cared more about myself, my own needs and desires,
>> my own pleasure, my own way, than I did about the whole rest of the
>> world. What happened to me was more important than any- thing else
>> I could think of. I was selfishly trying to be happy and therefore
>> I was unhappy most of the time. I have found that selfishly seeking
>> pleasure does not bring true happiness. Thinking of myself all the
>> time cut me off from the best in life. A.A. taught me to care less
>> about myself and more about the other person, Am I less self-
>> centered?
>>
>> Meditation for the Day
>>
>> When something happens to upset you and you are discouraged, try to
>> feel that life's difficulties and troubles are not intended to
>> arrest your progress in the spiritual life, but to test your
>> strength and to increase your determination to keep going. Whatever
>> it is that must be met, you are to either overcome it or use it.
>> Nothing should daunt you for long, nor should any difficulty
>> entirely overcome or conquer you. God's strength will always be
>> there, waiting for you to use it, Nothing can be too great to
>> be overcome, or if not overcome, then used,
>>
>> Prayer for the Day
>>
>> I pray that I may know that there can be no failure with God. I
>> pray that with His help I may live a more victorious life.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------
>> The following is Excerpt No. 22 from As Bill Sees It : “Fear as a
>> Steppingstone”
>>
>> The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered
>> fear - primarily fear that we would lose something we already
>> possessed or would fail to get something we demanded. Living upon a
>> basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual
>> disturbance & frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had
>> unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.
>> Twelve & Twelve p-76
>>
>>
>> For all its usual destructiveness, we have found that fear
>> can be the starting point for better things. Fear can be a
>> steppingstone to prudence and to a decent respect for others. It
>> can point the path to justice, as well as to hate. And the more we
>> have of respect and justice, the more we shall begin to find the
>> love which can suffer much, and yet be freely given. So fear need
>> not always be destructive, because the lessons of its consequences
>> can lead us to positive values.
>> Grapevine January 1962
>>
>> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967
>> by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
>> World Services, Inc., 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115
>>
>>
>> ❀
>>