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For pride, leading to self-justification, and always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the
basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress.
2.
We can go far beyond those things which were superficially wrong with
us, to see those flaws which were basic, flaws which sometimes were responsible for the whole
pattern of our lives.
3.
Besides these, there were scattered alcoholics who
had picked up the basic ideas in Akron or New York who were trying to form groups in other cities.
4.
5.
Literature has played a
major role in A.A.'s growth, and a striking phenomenon of
the past quarter-century has been the explosion of translations of our basic
literature into many languages and dialects.
6.
Nor do we enter into debate with the many who still so passionately cling to the belief that to satisfy our basic natural desires is the main object of life.
7.
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.
8.
The basic principles of A.A., as they are known today, were borrowed mainly from the fields of religion and medicine, though some ideas upon which success finally depended were the result of noting the behavior and needs of the Fellowship itself.
9.
The basic principles of
the A.A. program, it appears, hold good for individuals with many different lifestyles, just as the program has brought recovery to those of many different nationalities.
10.
Before tackling the inventory problem in detail, let's have a closer look at what the basic problem is.
11.
12.
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we had
a feeling of uselessness, we were full of
fear, we were unhappy, we
couldn't seem to be of real help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
13.
Because this book has become the basic text for our Society and has helped such large numbers of alcoholic men and women to recovery, there exists strong sentiment against any radical changes being made in it.
14.
15.
Like so much of A.A.'s basic text, those words have proved to be far more visionary than the founding members could ever have imagined.
16.
What is his basic trouble?
17.
Our basic troubles are the
same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles
in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith.
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