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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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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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I used to put eight or twelve ounce bottles of alcohol in a fur lined glove and toss it onto the back airing porch when winter days got dark
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If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed
in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we
have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
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Nor does it mean that the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as citizens of the
world, are going to back away from their individual responsibilities to act
as they see the right upon issues of our time.
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Beginning on the ground
floor there would be a club; in
the second story they would
sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project -- quite noncontroversial, of course.
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I was, of course, soon on the
carpet and the upshot was
that I had to go back for two more quarters and remain absolutely dry, if I wished to graduate.
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They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.
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Our friends have counseled chucking the men and we have done so with finality, only to be back in a
little while hoping, always hoping.
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As animals on a treadmill, we have patiently and wearily climbed, falling back in exhaustion after each futile effort to reach solid ground.
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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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By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that
years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking
even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression.
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Handing it to me, he continued, 'This shows the kind of money the hospital used to make back in the 1920's.
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To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to
see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance of
what we receive as we carry
A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
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Everybody was scared witless that something or
somebody would capsize
the boat and dump us all back into the drink.
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I drank with moderation
at first, but it took me only a
relatively short time to drift back into the old habits which had wound up so disastrously before.
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The story he told is most instructive, for here was a
chap absolutely convinced he had to stop drinking, who had no excuse for drinking, who exhibited splendid judgment and determination in all his other concerns, yet was flat on his back nevertheless.
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Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.
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We conceive the survival
and spread of Alcoholics
Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than
the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.
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Looking back over his life, he can readily get under way by consideration of questions such as these:
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Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we
still need to exercise special vigilance.
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I seemed to be able to snap back the next morning better than most of my fellow
drinkers, who were cursed
(or perhaps blessed) with
a great deal of morning-after nausea.
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Finally my father had to send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.
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Then, as year by year we walk back through our lives as far as memory will reach, we shall be bound to construct a long list of people who have, to some
extent or other, been affected.
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This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day.
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Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us; you
can't keep us out."
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Many mornings I have gone to classes, and even though fully prepared, would turn and walk back to the fraternity house because of my jitters, not daring to enter the classroom for fear of making a scene should I be called on for
recitation.
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As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our
will power.
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When we look back, we realize that the things which
came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned.
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