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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
Click the page number or the book cover icon
to view that page in the literature.1.
Provided anonymity was maintained on these platforms, and reporters
present were cautioned
against the use of names or pictures, the result was fine.
2.
Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the light of our experience can
recover, provided he does not
close his mind to all spiritual concepts.
3.
He can go anywhere on this earth where other free men may go
without disaster, provided he remains willing to maintain a certain simple attitude.
4.
These things will come to pass naturally and in good time provided, however, the alcoholic continues to demonstrate that he can be sober, considerate, and helpful, regardless of
what anyone says or does.
5.
6.
After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic run-around -- provided, of course, they are willing to have a third party in the picture.
7.
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
8.
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence:
"Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."
9.
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
10.
We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring about
still more harm in so doing.
11.
Nevertheless, the twentieth century readily accepts theories of all kinds, provided they are firmly grounded in fact.
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Provided they were willing --
and many were -- why shouldn't
their membership be publicized, thereby encouraging others to join us?
14.
By their example they showed us that humility and
intellect could be compatible, provided we placed humility first.
15.
If at these points our emotional disturbance
happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance, provided we remember, and repeat to ourselves, a particular
prayer or phrase that has appealed to us in our reading or meditation.
16.
As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of a
Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of
the Universe underlying the totality
of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps.
17.
Being all powerful, He
provided what we needed, if we
kept close to Him and performed His work well.
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Alcoholics Anonymous, the
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