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NOVEMBER 5 Reflection for the Day

For many months after I came to Gamblers Anonymous, I paid little attention to the Eleventh Step, to the practice of serious

In the words of Teilhard de Chardin, We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human

The Gamblers Anonymous Red Book says: The word spiritual can be said to describe those characteristics of the human mind that represent the

The more self-searching we do, the more we realize how often we react negatively because our pride has been hurt. Pride is at the

Those whom I most respect in the Gamblers Anonymous Program—and, in turn, those from whom I’ve learned the most—seem convinced that pride

The mystery of ego: painful when inflated and painful to deflate, often keeping me from wholeheartedly working the Gamblers Anonymous Program. Even

When I’m motivated by pride—by bondage of self—I become partly or even wholly blind to my liabilities and shortcomings. At that point,

Virtually all of us suffered the defect of pride when we sought help through the Program, the Twelve Steps, and the Fellowship

I never cease to be amazed at how appropriate the topic at meetings I attend seems to be in relation to my

The Gamblers Anonymous Program’s Fourth Step suggests that we make a fearless moral and financial inventory of ourselves. For so many of