Digging Up Quotes From AA and Thomas Merton

Here are some gems from A.A. meetings I found to be worth mining:

Choices and reactions are the only things we have control over.

The more I know the less I know.

What if someone said, "I am going to control your life." I would say no way! But that's what I allowed alcohol to do.

Sometimes I wish my brain had put the breaks on my mouth.

People at A.A. poked me in the I.

When I drink I break out in stupid.

At New Year's: I let my resolutions go in one year and out the other.

Poor me! Pour me another.

FROG -- Fully Relying on God. (See my blog post on February 18)

Religion is different spokes on the same wheel. (attributed to Thomas Merton)

Speaking of Thomas Merton: