AA Thought for the Day
July 8, 2007
Self-centered Fear
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 and frustration.
Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means
of reducing these demands.
The difference between a demand and a simple request
is plain to anyone.
Reprinted from Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Page 76, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
Thought to Ponder....
What I fear I create.
Recovery Related Acronym
F E A R = Frustration, Ego, Anxiety, Resentment.
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