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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Drunk farms, educational ventures,
state legislatures, and
commissions advertised the fact that A.A. members served them.
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No beer or liquor was sold in the neighborhood, except at
the State liquor agency where perhaps one might procure a pint if he could convince the
agent that he really needed it.
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Having reduced us to a state
of absolute helplessness, you now declare that none but a Higher Power can remove our obsession.
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If I am unable to change the
present state of affairs, am I willing to take the measures necessary to shape my life to conditions as they
are?
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Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of
continual disturbance and frustration.
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We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
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The doctor said: "You have the
mind of a chronic alcoholic. I have never seen one single case recover, where that state of mind existed to the extent that it does in you."
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My whole life seemed to be centered around doing what I wanted to do, without regard for the rights, wishes, or privileges of anyone else; a state of mind which became more and more predominant as the years passed.
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Following are excerpts
from the comments of doctors present at the annual meeting(*) of the Medical Society of the State of New York where a paper on A.A. was read:
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Why should we be bothered
with theological abstractions and religious duties, or with
the state of our souls here or hereafter?
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He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest of
the world would only behave;
the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and
the alcoholic who has lost
all and is locked up.
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We try not to indulge in cynicism over the state of the nations, nor do we carry the world's troubles on our shoulders.
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At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a
state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail.
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