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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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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.
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After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could be
based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover, three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
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Our sponsors declared
that we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it.
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Even if he displays a certain amount of neglect and irresponsibility towards the family, it is well to let him go as far as he likes in helping other alcoholics.
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Wherever men are gathered together in business there will be rivalries and, arising out of these, a certain amount of office politics.
10.
We realize some men are thoroughly bad-intentioned, that no amount of patience will make any
difference.
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For most alcoholics who are drinking, or who are just getting over a spree, a certain amount of physical treatment is desirable,
even imperative.
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Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
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This means that side by side with an earnest prayer there can be a certain
amount of presumption and
conceit in us.
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It is not to be expected that an alcoholic employee will receive a disproportionate amount
of time and attention.
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When our friend related his
experience, the man agreed that no amount of will power he might muster could stop his drinking for long.
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If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
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