"Why We Should Study the Big Book"
YES, THEY ARE. The BB gives us 'precise, clear-cut directions.' If you've heard that the 12&12 was written because people couldn't find the directions for each step in the BB -- well that doesn't really fit with AA History. Besides, the "Little Red Book" (Ed Webster) was published in 1946, before the 12&12 (1953) was written. The 12&12 was never meant to replace the Big Book for 'how to take the steps;' it broadens and deepens our understanding for subsequent 12 Step work-throughs. Remember, the 12-Steps are 'suggested' as a program of recovery BECAUSE IT MUST BE VOLUNTARY. dowload PDF
So go ahead––Carry the Message! Be a Big Book Thumper. Help save some lives.
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"If you do not find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." "SERVICE: "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were." "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality."
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." "What really matters is what happens in us, not to us." "Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." |
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'Heard in AA Meetings' | God's Terms | Dry Drunk | Finding the steps in the BB | Priorities WS | 4th and 10th step checklist | 11th-step guide | liabilities definitions | assets definitions | career resource guide | resume WS | HOTLINE handout | feeling charts | liabilities/defects | HOTLINE handout | Prayer for Children | Our Deepest Fear | Risks | See a Sermon | Tomorrow | You Learn | God box | Desiderata | phone cards |
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This page has some material that may be helpful on the journey of recovery. Feel free to print and share. Any acknowledgement of source should remain on the handouts.
They're PDFs, so if by chance you don't have an Acrobat PDF Reader, get one here: 
Unless otherwise stated, authorship and copyright is "rc-rc.info." If the information is/has been useful to you, please send a note to let me know. I'll work on more items, IF anyone is actually interested. There have been A LOT of downloads--but no feedback. EMAIL
There is more information you can get from other sites we've linked to: official organizations and recovery links. Those items might be copyrighted beyond personal use.
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This is the information from our "Collections 3" page in PDF form. download PDF
The Big Book Recovery Program (thru page 164) is about learning to live on God's terms, not ours. "Accepting life on life's terms" is an opinion from a story, not part of The Program. "Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us." pg 77. Life doesn't make terms; other people and my EGO make terms. So my choices are: other's terms, my EGO's terms, or GOD's terms? This is a 2-page document. |
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Do you attend AA meetings, but choose to take the "easier softer way" as a program? After a few years, are you still restless, irritable, and discontented? There is a solution for a contented way of living....
You Might Be a Dry Drunk If... download 2-pg PDF. |
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This checklist may also help with the 10th-Step's continued personal inventory and 'yardsticks for behavior'. |
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It starts as a half-hour set-apart time, which eventually will become the full hour quiet time. It is divided into segments. Each person uses a reading or sacred writing of their choosing. |
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These are the "How Do You Feel Today?" sheets. I got these in 1989 from someone who'd gotten them from a treatment center. They're copies of copies (have been passed around for awhile) and there was NO copyright on them, so I cleaned them up and made PDFs. An agency or two may have redrawn them and claimed them as there own....? (RCRC 2006)
Click on each to get the full-size PDF. |
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 PART TWO |
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Here's a list of suggested personality liabilities and defects of character |
This is a list of Portland-area Hotline and Crisis numbers |
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"I Stand By The Door" Rev. Samuel Shoemaker – a non-alcoholic founder of A.A. This is formatted for a legal-size sheet of paper. dowload PDF
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by Ina Hughs |
by Marianne Williamson (used by Nelson Mandella |
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by Janet Rand download PDF |
by Edgar Guest |
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A good poem for us procrastinators |
by Veronica Shoffstall download PDF |
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A poem about Letting Go and Letting God. |
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Write your name, phone, and/or email address for someone seeking help. |
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© Rose City Recovery Connections, 2006–2010 |
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Three-page list of definitions and synonyms for 'LIABILITIES' words from the Moral Inventory Checklist, above.
Three-page list of definitions and synonyms for 'ASSETS' words from the Moral Inventory Checklist, above left.
Guides, Resources, Worksheets, Poems...