Weekly archive
Week of Jul 20–26, 2026
One soft note at a time — gathered for the week. Also good for the Substack archive.
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Monday, July 20
“Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness…
“Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to others, so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful. You should not hesitate to visit the most sordid spot on earth on such an errand. Keep on the firing line of life with these motives a…
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Tuesday, July 21
“You may already have asked yourself why it is that all of us became…
“You may already have asked yourself why it is that all of us became so very ill from drinking.” Page 20 — Why are alcoholics different from normal people? Why, once we’ve crossed the line into alcoholism, do we find it impossible to control our drinking and our minds and thou…
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Wednesday, July 22
“You forget that you have just now tapped a source of power much greater…
“You forget that you have just now tapped a source of power much greater than yourself.” Page 163 — Having survived on self-reliance, logic, and grit, it’s often a challenge to surrender to a Power greater than ourselves. And perhaps even more so as we recover and life gets be…
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Thursday, July 23
“Yes, we had been faithful, abjectly faithful to the God of Reason…
“Yes, we had been faithful, abjectly faithful to the God of Reason. So, in one way or another, we discovered that faith had been involved all the time!” Page 54 — We had depended on ourselves because others had failed us. We failed utterly because we depended only on our minds…
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Friday, July 24
“With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless…
“With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start.” Page 58 — Most of us arrive in recovery desperate, miserable, lost. But even in that state, many of us can’t or won’t give ourselves fully to the simple solution. We’ve ne…
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Saturday, July 25
“Will he take every necessary step, submit to anything to get well…
“Will he take every necessary step, submit to anything to get well, to stop drinking forever?” Page 142 — If we hold ideas that we may one day be able to again drink safely, we are very unlikely to thoroughly do the work required for a spiritual experience necessary to grant u…
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Sunday, July 26
“Why does he behave like this? If hundreds of experiences have shown…
“Why does he behave like this? If hundreds of experiences have shown him that one drink means another debacle with all its attendant suffering and humiliation, why is it he takes that one drink?” Page 22 — Why, why, why? How many times did I ask that question the morning after…