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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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to view that page in the literature.1.
By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership of
Alcoholics Anonymous
was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.
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Let it be noted, too, that they
were almost always concerned with ways to make A.A. more
effective, how to do the most good for the most alcoholics.
4.
On that basis we are almost always in collision with something or somebody, even though our motives are good.
5.
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they have received from God.
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7.
It was almost always with me.
8.
Only thirty years later the conquest of the air was almost an old story and airplane travel was in full swing.
9.
Of course, the often disputed question of whether God can -- and will, under certain conditions -- remove defects of character will be answered with a prompt affirmative by almost any A.A. member.
10.
Surveying his business
or employment record,
almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my drinking problem, what character defects contributed to my
financial instability?
11.
When A.A.'s Traditions were
first published, in 1946, we had become sure that an A.A. group could stand almost any amount of battering.
12.
Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God.
13.
When opportunities to be helpful came along, he found he could talk easily about A.A. to almost anyone.
14.
In fact, he may say almost anything if he has accepted our solution
which, as you know, demands
rigorous honesty.
15.
When we take such personality traits as
these into shop, office, and
the society of our fellows, they can do damage
almost as extensive as that
we have caused at home.
16.
It could almost be said that we
were born with it, for, as one oldtimer recently declared, "Practically
never have I heard a heated religious, political, or reform argument among A.A. members.
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18.
The almost certain consequences that follow
taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us.
19.
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.
20.
Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant.
21.
The Wright brothers' almost childish faith that they could build a machine which would fly was the
mainspring of their accomplishment.
22.
The Washingtonian Society, a movement among alcoholics which started in Baltimore a century ago, almost discovered the answer to alcoholism.
23.
By temperament, nearly
every one of us had been an irrepressible promoter, and the prospect
of a society composed
almost entirely of promoters was frightening.
24.
Now and then the family will be plagued by spectres from the past, for the
drinking career of almost every alcoholic has been marked by
escapades, funny, humiliating, shameful or
tragic.
25.
On almost every newsfront, the men and women of the press have attached themselves to us
as friends.
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29.
They pointed out that the irresponsible had become
responsible, and that by making financial independence part of its tradition, Alcoholics Anonymous had
revived an ideal that its era had almost forgotten.
30.
Hence the two men set to work almost frantically upon alcoholics arriving in
the ward of the Akron City Hospital.
31.
Almost from the beginning,
we have been positive that face-to-face work with the alcoholic who suffers could be based only on
the desire to help and be helped.
32.
Never once in my life have I had a headache,
which fact leads me to believe that I was an alcoholic almost from the start.
33.
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness
as he spoke of these things
just before he died; these recollections
welled up from the past.
34.
We had been presented with a hospital, and almost immediately the donor's son became its principal patient and would-be manager.
35.
Such a roster of harms done others -- the kind that make daily living with us as practicing alcoholics
difficult and often unbearable -- could be extended almost indefinitely.
36.
But a few did, and when these laid hold of A.A. principles with all the fervor with which the drowning seize life preservers, they almost invariably got well.
37.
... almost invariably
results in poor Catholics becoming ...
BB
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
There is something spiritual about A.A. too, and Catholic participation
in it almost invariably results in poor Catholics becoming better Catholics."
38.
We do talk about each other a great deal, but we almost invariably temper such talk by a spirit of love and tolerance.
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40.
In our drinking time, we acted as if the money supply was inexhaustible, though between binges we'd sometimes go to the other extreme and become almost miserly.
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It is significant, now
that almost no A.A. in our Fellowship breaks anonymity at the public level, that nearly all these fears have subsided.
43.
For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and
actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.
44.
Almost no recovery from alcoholism
has ever been brought about
by the world's best professionals, whether
medical or religious.
45.
Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of
our pride, the confession
of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.
46.
Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which is an inscription.
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49.
A doctor said to us, "Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic.
50.
The alcoholic's past thus becomes the principal asset of the family and frequently it is
almost the only one!
51.
It has been well said that
"almost the only scoffers at
prayer are those who never tried it enough."
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53.
Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.
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At that time I was not aware of
the almost unlimited supply the government made it possible for us doctors to obtain, neither had I any knowledge of the bootlegger who soon appeared on the horizon.
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