What People Are Thinking ....

To become less concerned with what people might be thinking, and less upset by negative things others may say:

1. Never guess what others might be thinking.



2. Value Yourself



3. Live your own life



4. Make your own choices.



5. Value your own opinions.



6. Choose to associate mostly with positive people who support you.

My Thinking

Heard in the rooms at 123 Linden St:

• I came to AA to correct my drinking. I stayed to correct my thinking.
  


• My mind is out to get my ass drunk.
  


• My best thinking got me into the rooms of AA.
  


• My mind is the most dangerous place on earth to be alone.

Each Day

Each day, whatever I am doing,
I am always praying and thinking of God.

Thomas Yellowtail, Crow

शिप्व्रेच्केद इन साउथ कैरोलाइना

Right Thinking & Acting

We can act ourselves into right thinking easier

than we can think ourselves into right acting.

Anonymous

From Unceasing Thinking to Unceasing Prayer

Our minds are always active.
We analyze, reflect, daydream, or dream.
There is not a moment during the day or night when we are not thinking.
You might say our thinking is "unceasing."
Sometimes we wish that we could stop thinking for a while; that would save us from many worries, guilt feelings, and fears.
Our ability to think is our greatest gift, but it is also the source of our greatest pain.
Do we have to become victims of our unceasing thoughts?
No, we can convert our unceasing thinking into unceasing prayer by making our inner monologue into a continuing dialogue with our God, who is the source of all love.

Let's break out of our isolation and realize that Someone who dwells in the center of our beings wants to listen with love to all that occupies and preoccupies our minds.

Henri Nouwen

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For Oneself

One must get along without the security of neat and simple, ready-made solutions.
There are things one has to think out, all over again, for oneself.

-- Thomas Merton

Stinkin' Thinkin'

They are able because they think they are able.

--Virgil

For me, addiction was full of doubt.
I stopped believing in myself.
My thoughts had turned to "stinkin' thinkin'. "
I didn't believe in much of anything.
I didn't take risks.
I always looked for the easier, softer way.

In recovery, I started to believe again.
I believed in the program.
I believed in a Higher Power.
I came to believe in people.

And, over time, I believed in myself again.

I was able to stay sober because I believe, because I take risks.

As I stay sober, I can face almost anything - with the help of others and the God of my understanding.

Do You Think To Much?

Thinkers Anonymous

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then to loosen up.
Inevitably though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker.
I began to think alone - "to relax," I told myself - but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time.
I began to think on the job.
I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself.
I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka.
I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"
Things weren't going so great at home either.
One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life.
She spent that night at her mother's.
I soon had a reputation as a heavy thinker.
One day the boss called me in. He said, "Skippy, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."
This gave me a lot to think about.
I came home early after my conversation with the boss.
"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking . . ."
"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!"
"But Honey, surely it's not that serious."
"It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as college professors, and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking we won't have any money!"
"That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and she began to cry.
I'd had enough. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door.
I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche, with a PBS station on the radio.
I roared into the parking lot and ran up to the big glass doors. . . they didn't open.
The library was closed.
To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.
As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye.
"Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.
You probably recognize that line.
It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster.
Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.
I never miss a TA meeting.
At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's."
Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.
I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home.
Life just seemed . . . easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.