Today's Thought - August

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August 17

Reading

Reading makes a complete person.

~Anonymous

When humans first found a way to turn spoken words into symbols, knowledge became available to untold numbers.

Through carvings on stone and scribblings on parchment, a method of communication became available to all who truly cared to learn. The simplest of words were used in the first efforts to teach humans.

Simplicity is still the recommended way of working a recovery program. We both read and hear that the program is “simple—though not always easy.”

Reading, study, and meditation can give us the basis of wisdom. The knowledge we gain from reading helps us understand ourselves and our world better. The wisdom we gather from books helps us on our journey of recovery.

The fogginess and lack of concentration I had when I first started recovery has faded away. Reading has become an important part of my program.

Today's reading is from the book Easy Does It: A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations*