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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Though old buildings will eventually be replaced by
finer ones, the new structures will take years to complete.
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So in a very complete and literal way, all A.A.'s have "become entirely ready" to have God remove the mania for alcohol from their lives.
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Until we had talked with
complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn't belong.
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The principle that we shall find no
enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered.
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There can only be one consideration which should qualify our desire for a complete disclosure of the damage we have done.
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There will be those to whom we
can make only partial restitution, lest complete disclosures do them or
others more harm than good.
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There is a complete failure
of the kind of defense that
keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
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As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to convince those about us that
we are indeed changing for
the better, it is usually
safe to talk in complete frankness with those who have been seriously
affected, even those who may be only a little
or not at all aware of what we have done to them.
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But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.
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This went from bad to worse until sophomore spring when, after a prolonged period of drinking, I made up my mind that I could not complete my
course, so I packed my grip and went South to spend a month on a large farm owned by a friend of mine.
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If that is so, this step may be postponed, only, however, if we hold ourselves in complete readiness to go through with it at the first opportunity.
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Is not our age characterized by the ease
with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we
throw away the theory or gadget which does not
work for something new which does?
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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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But all of them do require a complete willingness to make amends as fast and as far as may be possible in a given set of conditions.
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Once we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful
light falls upon this foggy scene.
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