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May 31, 2026

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This is Transitions Daily for May thirty-first, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day: Sponsorship.
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Dr.
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Bob led me through all these steps.
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At the moral inventory, he brought up some of my bad personality traits or character defects, such as selfishness, conceit, jealousy, carelessness, intolerance, ill temper, sarcasm, and resentments.
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We went over these at great length, and he finally asked me if I wanted these defects of character taken away.
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This is Transitions Daily for May thirtieth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day.
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Unity.
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Practically never have I heard a heated religious, political, or reform argument among AA members.
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So long as we don't argue these matters privately, it's a sense we never shall publicly.
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As by some deep instinct, we AAs have known from the very beginning that we must never, no matter what the provocation, publicly take sides in any fight, even a worthy one.
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This is Transitions Daily for May twenty-ninth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day: Freedom.
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So far upon the total problem of several million actual or potential alcoholics in the world, we have made only a scratch.
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In all probability, we shall never be able to touch more than a fair fraction of the alcoholic problem in all its ramifications.
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Upon therapy for the alcoholic himself, we surely have no monopoly.
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It is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to of new freedom.
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This is Transitions Daily for May twenty-eighth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thought for the Day.
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Fact.
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The great fact is just this and nothing less, that we have had a deep and effective spiritual experience which has revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows, and towards God's universe.
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The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered our hearts and our lives in a way which is indeed miraculous.
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He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we can never do by ourselves.
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This is Transitions Daily for May 25th, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day.
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Choices.
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Our necessities are certainly immense and compelling.
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Each of us must conform reasonably well to AA steps and traditions, or else we shall go mad or die of alcoholism.
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Therefore, the compulsion among most of us to survive and grow soon becomes far stronger than the temptation to drink or misbehave.

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This is Transitions Daily for May twenty-fourth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day.
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Compulsion.
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It helped me a great deal to be convinced that alcoholism was a disease, not a moral issue.
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That I had been drinking as a result of a compulsion, even though I had not been aware of the compulsion at the time, and that sobriety was not a matter of willpower.
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I was afraid to let go of what I had in order to try something new.
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This is Transitions Daily for May twenty-third read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day.
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Acceptance.
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And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.
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When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation, some fact of my life unacceptable to me.
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I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it's supposed to be at this moment.
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This is Transitions Daily for May twenty-second, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day.
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Daily Reprieve.
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It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels.
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We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe.
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We are not cured of alcoholism.
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This is Transitions Daily for May twenty-first, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day: Defiance.
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As psychiatrists have often observed, defiance is the outstanding characteristic of many an alcoholic.
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When we encountered AA, the fallacy of our defiance was revealed.
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At no time had we asked what God's will was for us.
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Instead, we had been telling Him what it ought to be.
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This is Transitions Daily for May twentieth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day.
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Communicate.
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From the beginning, communication in AA has been no ordinary transmission of helpful ideas and attitudes.
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It has been unusual and sometimes unique.
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Because of our kinship and suffering, and because our common means of deliverance are effective for ourselves only when constantly carried to others, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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This is Transitions Daily for May nineteenth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day: Attitudes.
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We find that our old attitudes towards our instincts need to undergo drastic revision.
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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.
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If we place instincts first, we have got the cart before the horse.
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We shall be pulled back into disillusionment.
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This is Transitions Daily for May eighteenth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day.
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Sponsor.
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If we are fooling ourselves, a competent advisor can quickly see this.
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As he skillfully guides us away from our fantasies, we are surprised to find that we have few of the usual urges to defend ourselves against unpleasant truths.
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In no other way can fear, pride, and ignorance be so readily melted.
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This is Transitions Daily for May seventeenth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day.
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Fear.
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This short word somehow touches about every aspect of our lives.
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It was an evil and corroding thread.
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The fabric of our existence was shot through with it.
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This is Transitions Daily for May sixteenth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thought for the Day.
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Martyrdom.
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Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and consuming defects that we know.
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It is a bar to all spiritual progress and can cut off all effective communication with our fellows because of its inordinate demands for attention and sympathy.
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It's a maudlin form of martyrdom which we can ill afford.
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This is Transitions Daily for May fifteenth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day.
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Conflict.
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My conflicts went right on mounting because I simply loaded with excuses and refusals.
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When these troubles had finally exhausted me enough, there was yet another escape.
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I would commence to wallow in the bog of guilt.
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This is Transitions Daily for May fourteenth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day: Awakening.
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Alcoholism is a grievous and often fatal malady of the mind and body.
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We have found that these awful conditions invariably bring us on the third phase of our malady.
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This is a sickness of the spirit, a sickness for which there must necessarily be a spiritual remedy.
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We AAs recognize this is the first five words of Step Twelve.
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This is Transitions Daily for May thirteenth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day: Disease.
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Some strongly object to the AA position that alcoholism is an illness.
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This concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from alcoholics.
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As any AA knows, this is far from true.
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We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve our members from responsibility.
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This is Transitions Daily for May twelfth read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day: Forgiveness.
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The moment we ponder a twisted or broken relationship with another person, our emotions go on the defensive.
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To escape looking at the wrongs we have done another, we resentfully focus on the wrongs he has done us.
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This is especially true if he has, in fact, behaved badly at all.
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Triumphantly, we seize upon his misbehavior as a perfect excuse for minimizing or forgetting our own.
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This is Transitions Daily for May eleventh, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thought for the Day.
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Maturity.
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Many oldsters who have put our AA booze cure to severe but successful test still find they often lack emotional sobriety.
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To attain this, we must develop a real maturity and balance, which is to say humility, in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God.
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Bill W., As Bill Sees It, page two forty-four.
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This is Transitions Daily for May tenth, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA Thoughts for the Day.
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Sunlight.
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It is plain that a life which includes deep resentments leads only to futility and unhappiness.
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To the precise extent that we permit these do we squander the hours that might have been worthwhile.
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This business of resentment is infinitely grave.
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This is Transitions Daily for May 9th, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA thoughts for the day.
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Anonymity.
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We have denied ourselves personal government, professionalism, and the right to say who our members shall be.
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We have abandoned do-goodism, reform, and patternism.
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Thoughts for the Day Friendship
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We commence to make many fast friends and a fellowship has grown up among us of which it is a wonderful thing to feel a part of.
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The joy of living we really have, even under pressure and difficulty.
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I've seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere.
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I've seen the most impossible domestic situations righted.
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Feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out.
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I've seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities.
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This is Transitions Daily for May 7th, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA thoughts for the day.
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Tornado.
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The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others.
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Hearts are broken, sweet relationships are dead.
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This is Transitions Daily for May 6th, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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A thought for the day.
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Control.
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Most of us have been unwilling to admit that we are real alcoholics.
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No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows.
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This is Transitions Daily for May 5th, read by Scott B. from Detroit, Michigan.
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AA thoughts for the day.
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Power.
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We wish we could be moral.
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We wish we could be philosophically comforted.

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