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bluidkiti · 12-06-2013, 08:31 AM

December 7

Building Character

We do not tolerate incompatibility in character traits. Greed, envy, selfishness, lying, arrogance, and vanity are mutually compatible. Kindness, truth, humility, consideration, and benevolence are mutually compatible. But elements in the first group are incompatible with elements in the second. Active addiction is characterized by traits of the first group. If we maintain sobriety, the movement can be in only one direction, making character traits compatible with a virtuous one. Thus, defects are eventually eliminated, replaced by positive traits. We need only to make a beginning, and the rest will follow.

12-06-2013, 08:31 AM	#7
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 70,735	December 7 Building Character We do not tolerate incompatibility in character traits. Greed, envy, selfishness, lying, arrogance, and vanity are mutually compatible. Kindness, truth, humility, consideration, and benevolence are mutually compatible. But elements in the first group are incompatible with elements in the second. Active addiction is characterized by traits of the first group. If we maintain sobriety, the movement can be in only one direction, making character traits compatible with a virtuous one. Thus, defects are eventually eliminated, replaced by positive traits. We need only to make a beginning, and the rest will follow. __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.