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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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It just comes!
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We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities
of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along.
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They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they
can again experience the
sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks -- drinks which they see others taking with impunity.
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Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture
of misery, but if trouble
comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.
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... comes closest
to the supernatural, namely in ...
BB
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
Edward Dowling, S.J.,(*) of the Queen's Work staff, says, "Alcoholics Anonymous is natural; it is
natural at the point where
nature comes closest to the supernatural, namely in
humiliations and in consequent humility.
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Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles.
The group must survive or the individual
will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.
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Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or rejected faith than to those who never had any faith at all, for they think they have tried faith and found it wanting.
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When evening comes, perhaps just before going to sleep, many of us draw up a balance sheet for the day.
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Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and live to good purpose under all conditions?
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This means trouble, unless the family watches for these tendencies in each other and comes to a friendly agreement about
them.
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It relieved me somewhat
to learn that in alcoholics the will is amazingly weakened when it
comes to combating liquor, though it often remains strong in other respects.
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One instance comes to mind in which a malicious individual was
always making friendly little jokes about an alcoholic's drinking exploits.
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When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material
world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence,
right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.
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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is
the sense of belonging
that comes to us.
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The second difficulty is
this: what comes to us alone
may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking.
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