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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Six months earlier, the broker had been
relieved of his drink obsession by a sudden spiritual experience, following a meeting with an
alcoholic friend who had
been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day.
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With a certain satisfaction I reflected there was enough
gin concealed about the house to carry me through that night and the next day.
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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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Those of us who live in large cities are overcome by the reflection that close by hundreds are dropping into
oblivion every day.
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Learning to depend upon a higher power and absorb himself in his work with other alcoholics, he remains sober day by day.
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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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Yet let him drink for a day, and he frequently becomes disgustingly, and even dangerously anti-social.
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It was the day before Mother's Day and I had come home plastered, carrying a big potted plant which I set down on the table and forthwith went upstairs and passed out.
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We ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His
will that we can have for that day, and that we be given the grace by which we may carry it out.
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My phobia for sleeplessness demanded
that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
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If outside donations weren't declined, absolutely cut off, then the
Foundation would one day become rich.
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It was the day before Mother's Day and I had come home plastered, carrying a big potted plant which I set down on the table and forthwith went upstairs and passed out.
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For these minutes and sometimes hours spent in self-examination are bound to make all the other hours of our day better and happier.
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Learning to depend upon a higher power and absorb himself in his work with other alcoholics, he remains sober day by day.
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But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way
of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather or foul.
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They had said that though I
did raise a defense, it
would one day give way before some trivial reason for having a drink.
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We ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His
will that we can have for that day, and that we be given the grace by which we may carry it out.
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As the day goes on, we can pause where situations must be met and decisions made, and renew the simple request: "Thy will, not mine, be done."
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One day he told me about an executive of
the same bank who, from his description, was undoubtedly alcoholic.
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I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief
now.
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Volunteer committeemen and assistants could be of great
help, but they could not be expected to carry this load day in and day out.
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But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way
of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather or foul.
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As we glance down the debit side of the day's ledger, we should carefully examine our motives in each thought or act that appears to be wrong.
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Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary
answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got
sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about
the job she was doing and how
she was overpaid, then such
a person could surely not be
called a professional
A.A.
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Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.
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Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note
of things well done, and having searched our
hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received
and sleep in good conscience.
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With each passing day of our lives, may every one of us sense more deeply the inner meaning of A.A.'s simple prayer:
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I thought of Lois coming home exhausted from the department store each day, only to cook supper for a houseful of drunks who weren't paying board.
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One unkind tirade or one willful snap judgment can ruin our relation with another person for a whole day, or maybe a whole year.
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Many of us also like the experience of an occasional retreat from
the outside world where we
can quiet down for an undisturbed day or so of self-overhaul and meditation.
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They took a drink a day or so prior to the date, and then the phenomenon
of craving at once became paramount to all other interests so that the
important appointment was not met.
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Some of us veered from extreme to extreme, ever hoping that one day our loved ones would be themselves once more.
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Perhaps the fear will always lurk in every A.A. heart that one day our name will be exploited by somebody for
real cash.
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Volunteer committeemen and assistants could be of great
help, but they could not be expected to carry this load day in and day out.
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"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism
as an illness, the social
stigma associated with
this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to
have been a great venture in
social pioneering which
forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."
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Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and
hope.
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(*) The work of present-day staff members has no counterpart among the job categories of commercial organizations. These A.A.'s
bring a wide range of business and professional experience to their service at The General Service Office.
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Then came the inevitable
explosion -- something
like that day the boiler burst in Wombley's Clapboard Factory.
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On the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator,
and said he was perfectly
willing to do anything necessary.
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Some day this bunch of ex-drunks of yours will fill Madison Square Garden, and I don't see why you should starve meanwhile.
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I used to promise my wife, my friends, and my children that I would drink no more -- promises which seldom kept me sober even through the day, though I was very sincere when I made them.
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We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy
will be done."
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Then, in Step Seven, we humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings such as He
could or would under the conditions of the day we asked.
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Some day we hope that Alcoholics Anonymous will help the public to a better realization of the gravity of the alcoholic problem, but we shall be of little use if our attitude is one of bitterness or hostility.
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Some day we hope that every alcoholic who journeys will find a Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at
his destination.
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As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and
ask for the right thought or action.
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We usually conclude the
period of meditation
with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems.
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In a vague way their families and friends sense that these drinkers are
abnormal, but everybody
hopefully awaits the
day when the sufferer will rouse himself from his lethargy
and assert his power of will.
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There's the spot-check inventory, taken at any time of the day, whenever we find ourselves getting tangled up.
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Perhaps we think of our
day's work and the chances it may afford us to be
useful and helpful, or of
some special problem that
it may bring.
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Out of this alloy of drink and speculation, I commenced to forge the weapon that one day would turn in its flight like a boomerang and all but
cut me to ribbons.
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