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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Also of importance for
most alcoholics are the questions they must ask about their behavior respecting financial and
emotional security.
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Ask any woman who has sent her husband to distant places on the theory he would
escape the alcohol problem.
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"How," they ask, "can such a crowd of anarchists function at all? How can they possibly place their common welfare first? What in Heaven's name holds them together?"
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We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves only.
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In all times of emotional
disturbance or indecision, we can pause,
ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done."
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Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should
be helped.
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As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and
ask for the right thought or action.
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Having opened our channel
as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and others are in the greatest need.
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If we are now about to ask forgiveness for ourselves, why shouldn't we start out by forgiving them, one and all?
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After making our review we ask God's forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken.
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Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it
be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
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Then let his family or a friend ask him if he wants to quit for good and if he would go to any extreme to do so.
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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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If you ask him why he started on that last bender, the chances are he will offer you any one of a hundred alibis.
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Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are
building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last.
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Now willing to commence the search for his
own defects, he will ask, "Just how do I go about this? How do I
take inventory of myself?"
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We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn't apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view.
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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?
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We ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His
will that we can have for that day, and that we be given the grace by which we may carry it out.
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Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member
can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere
be seen?
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"Does this mean," some will anxiously ask, "that in A.A. the individual doesn't count for much? Is he to be dominated by his group and swallowed up in it?"
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Reminding ourselves
that we have decided to go to
any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be
given strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.
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Ask the polio sufferer confined to an iron lung who depends with complete trust upon a motor to keep the breath of life in him.
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Very earnestly we ask the press also, to observe this request, for otherwise we
shall be greatly handicapped.
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Little by little, mother and children will see they ask too much, and father will see he gives too little.
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Because A.A.'s Twelve Traditions repeatedly ask us to give up personal desires for the common good, we realize that the sacrificial spirit -- well symbolized by anonymity -- is the foundation of them all.
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All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they
all deflate our egos.
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Before we ask what a spot-check inventory is, let's look at the kind of setting in which such an inventory can do its work.
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We have seen A.A.'s ask with much earnestness and faith for
God's explicit guidance on matters ranging all the way from a shattering domestic or financial crisis to correcting a minor personal fault, like tardiness.
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Therefore, ask yourself on each occasion, "Have I any good social, business, or personal reason for going to this place?
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