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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might start drinking again.
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After they have succumbed
to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon
of craving develops, they
pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with
a firm resolution not to
drink again.
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"The doctor told him that if
he ever drank again it would kill him, but there he
is all lit up again."
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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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We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone
to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand ourselves so
well after what you have told us that such things cannot happen again.
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Let him tell you about it: "I was
much impressed with what
you fellows said about alcoholism, and I frankly
did not believe it would be possible for me to drink again.
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I now remembered what my alcoholic friends had told me, how they prophesied
that if I had an alcoholic mind, the time and place would come -- I would drink again.
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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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It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again.
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Still goaded by sheer necessity, we reluctantly come to grips with those serious character flaws that made problem drinkers of us in
the first place, flaws which must be dealt with to prevent a retreat into alcoholism once again.
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Time after time, my instructors held up to me the basic principle of all scientific progress: search and research, again and again, always with the open mind.
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Time after time, my instructors held up to me the basic principle of all scientific progress: search and research, again and again, always with the open mind.
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He saw that he had to place the
outcome in God's hands or he would soon start drinking again, and all would be lost anyhow.
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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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Though self-will may slam it shut again, as it frequently does, it will always respond the moment we again pick up the key
of willingness.
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After they have succumbed
to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon
of craving develops, they
pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with
a firm resolution not to
drink again.
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If he is sincerely interested and wants to see you again, ask him to read this book in the interval.
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Looking again at those defects we are still unwilling to give up, we ought to erase the hard-and-fast lines that we have drawn.
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This had the effect of making me resolve that when I
was free from parental domination, I would never
again darken the doors of a church.
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If he temporizes and still thinks he can ever drink again, even beer, he might as well be discharged after the next bender which, if an alcoholic, he is almost certain to have.
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They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they
can again experience the
sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks -- drinks which they see others taking with impunity.
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Again I swayed dizzily before an open window, or the medicine cabinet where there
was poison, cursing myself for a weakling.
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Why was it, when these dangers
were pointed out that they agreed, and then got drunk again immediately?
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Back again in their caves, alcoholics would reproach us and say, "What a great thing A.A. might have been!"
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"The doctor told him that if
he ever drank again it would kill him, but there he
is all lit up again."
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In the early days of our drinking we occasionally remained
sober for a year or more, becoming serious drinkers again later.
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Though self-will may slam it shut again, as it frequently does, it will always respond the moment we again pick up the key
of willingness.
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When a few men in this city have found themselves, and have discovered the joy of helping others to face life again, there will be no stopping until everyone in that town has had his opportunity
to recover -- if he can and will.
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We have drunk to escape the
guilt of passions, and then
have drunk again to make more passions possible.
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I think I must have been thoroughly scared by what
had happened, or by the doctor, or probably both, so that I did not touch a drink again until the country went dry.
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But again we are driven on by
the inescapable conclusion which we draw from
A.A. experience, that we surely must try with a will, or else fall by the wayside.
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Here again we are presented with the temptation to overmanage things, and sometimes this results in
rebuffs and other consequences which are hard
to take.
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Even among those who occasionally land back in here again, we observe a profound change in personality.
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Again, you should not crowd
him.
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