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But the wise family will admire him for what he is trying to be, rather than for
what he is trying to get.
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By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we would
need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
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Or we may be tipped over in
the other direction when,
in rare cases, we get a cool and skeptical reception.
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If my wife was planning to
go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.
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We have been trying to get a
new attitude, a new relationship with our Creator, and to discover the
obstacles in our path.
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To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
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The bleeding deacon is one who is just as surely convinced that the group cannot get along without him, who constantly connives for
reelection to office,
and who continues to be consumed with self-pity.
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Get an idea of his behavior, his problems, his
background, the seriousness of his condition, and his religious leanings.
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If he says yes, does he really mean it, or down inside does he think he is fooling you, and
that after rest and treatment he will be able to get away with a few drinks now and then?
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To get completely away from our aversion to the
idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for
itself, takes most of us a long, long time.
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My phobia for sleeplessness demanded
that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
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In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.
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He browbeat everybody,
and everybody expected
that he'd soon get drunk -- for at the time, you see, A.A. was on the pious side.
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He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show unselfishness and love under his own roof.
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As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then.
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... get here
at Philadelphia General are mostly ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
Dr. John F. Stouffer, Chief Psychiatrist, Philadelphia General Hospital, citing his experience with A.A., said: "The alcoholics we
get here at Philadelphia General are
mostly those who cannot afford private treatment, and A.A. is by far the greatest thing we have been able to offer them.
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Get him to tell some of his.
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He may tell mother, who has
been religious all her life, that she doesn't know what
it's all about, and that she had better get his brand of spirituality while there
is yet time.
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The benefit of talking to
another person is that we
can get his direct comment and counsel on our situation, and there can be no
doubt in our minds what that
advice is.
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It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from
the pains of growing up.
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'Now I get it!
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If you have decided you want
what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it -- then you are
ready to take certain steps.
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Finally my father had to send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.
47.
There my drinking became
so much worse that the boys in the fraternity house where I lived felt forced to send for my father, who made a long journey in the vain endeavor to get me straightened around.
48.
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded
that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
49.
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted to help me, but I
would get my friends to smuggle me a quart, or I would
steal the alcohol about the
building, so that I got rapidly worse.
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He may either plunge into a
frantic attempt to get on his feet in business, or he may be so enthralled by his new life that he talks or thinks of little else.
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Though the earning power of most A.A.'s is relatively high, we have some
members who never seem to get on their feet moneywise, and still others who encounter heavy financial reverses.
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True, most of us thought good character was desirable, but obviously
good character was something one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.
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And do not his actions make
each of them wish to retaliate, snatching all
they can get out of the show?
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Simply we tell him that we will never get over drinking until we have done our utmost to straighten out the past.
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If you are an alcoholic who wants to get over it, you may already be asking -- "What do I have to do?"
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Unlike most of our crowd, I
did not get over my craving for liquor much during the first two and one-half years of abstinence.
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We began to get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency.
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When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.
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For we had started to get perspective on ourselves, which is another
way of saying that we were gaining in humility.
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We found that as soon as we
were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in
a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced
to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which
is God.
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How can we possibly summon
the resolution and the willingness to get rid of such overwhelming compulsions and desires?
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One object is to disclose damaged or unsalable goods, to get rid of them promptly and without regret.
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For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we
can begin to get right with ourselves and with
the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all.
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The chief activator of our
defects has been self-centered fear -- primarily fear that we would
lose something we already possessed or would
fail to get something we demanded.
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How often have some of us begun to drink in this nonchalant way, and after the third or fourth, pounded on the bar and said to ourselves, "For God's sake, how did I ever get started again?"
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I used to get terribly upset when I saw my friends drink and knew I could not, but I
schooled myself to believe that though I once had the same privilege, I had abused it
so frightfully that it was withdrawn.
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News of this got on the world wires; inquiries poured in again and many people went to the bookstores to get the book "Alcoholics Anonymous."
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This vital Step was also the means by which we began to get the feeling that we could be forgiven, no matter what we had thought or
done.
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Have we alcoholics in A.A.
got, or can we get, the resources to meet these calamities which come to so
many?
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I got tight that night, stayed sober Monday till after the dinner, and then proceeded
to get tight again.
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We could not be invited out because I would surely get tight, and my wife dared not invite people in for the same reason.
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In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.
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Looking back over his life, he can readily get under way by consideration of questions such as these:
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Some of them may sink and perhaps never get up, but if our experience is a criterion, more than half of those approached will become fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Of an evening, you can go on a
mild bender, get up in the morning, shake your head and go to business.
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Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and sundry ideas of what will get us by.
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Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and sundry ideas of what will get us by.
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Though we may at first be startled to realize that God knows all about us, we are apt to get used to that quite quickly.
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Say that you believe he is a
gravely ill person, with this qualification -- being perhaps fatally ill, does he want to get well?
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They often jeopardize
their own positions by trying to help serious drinkers who should
have been fired long ago, or else given an opportunity to
get well.
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But what about his responsibilities -- his
family and the men who would die because they would not know how to get well, ah -- yes, those other alcoholics?
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We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement.
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For the type of alcoholic
who is able and willing to
get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted.
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I insisted that few drunks could ever get well on their own steam, but that in our groups we could do together
what we could not do separately.
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As matters get worse, the husband becomes a sick and irresponsible child who
needs to be looked after and extricated from endless scrapes and impasses.
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