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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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The spark that was to flare
into the first A.A. group was struck at Akron, Ohio, in June 1935, during a talk between a New York stockbroker and an Akron physician.
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We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.
4.
Alcoholics Anonymous
began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a meeting between a well-known surgeon and a New York broker.
5.
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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But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, the
character-building was
lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.
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There is a good bit of travel between East and West and we foresee a great increase in this helpful interchange.
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To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has
made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death.
10.
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has
made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death.
11.
Sixteen years have elapsed between our first printing of this book and the presentation
in 1955 of our second edition.
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At last, however, a plain line of cleavage could be seen between professionalism and nonprofessionalism.
14.
This will be a very different occasion, and in
sharp contrast with those hangover mornings when we alternated between reviling ourselves and blaming the family (and everyone else) for our troubles.
15.
They are abetted in this blindness by a world which
does not understand the difference between sane drinking and alcoholism.
16.
I was between Scylla and Charybdis now, because if I did not drink my
stomach tortured me, and
if I did my nerves did the same thing.
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So the difference between
"the boys and the men" is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and
for the perfect objective which is of God.
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As to them, his policy is undoubtedly sound, but he
did not distinguish between such people and the alcoholic.
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So the difference between
"the boys and the men" is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and
for the perfect objective which is of God.
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It is the difference between the spirit of vested authority and the spirit of service, two concepts which are sometimes poles apart.
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Between these lines, it is easy to read our fear that large numbers of incoming people might break our anonymity wide open.
28.
We could not prove life in the
sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.
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Barriers which have sprung
up between you and your friends will disappear with the growth of
sympathetic understanding.
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