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Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he escapes his own difficulties.
2.
That is why we are anxious
that you understand, and that you avoid these unnecessary
difficulties.(*)
3.
We shall want to speak with someone who is experienced, who not only has stayed dry but has been able to surmount other serious difficulties.
4.
We doctors have realized
for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but its application presented
difficulties beyond our conception.
5.
6.
The consideration of long-standing difficulties had better be postponed, when possible,
to times deliberately
set aside for that purpose.
7.
After a few such experiences, often years before the onset of extreme difficulties, he would
return to us convinced.
8.
9.
It is only where "boy meets girl on A.A. campus," and love follows at first sight, that difficulties may develop.
10.
Many people, nonalcoholics, report
that as a result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have been able to meet other difficulties of life.
11.
While the internal difficulties of our adolescent
period were being ironed out, public acceptance of A.A. grew by leaps and bounds.
12.
Difficulties of practice.
13.
14.
If he is not interested in your solution, if he expects you
to act only as a banker for his
financial difficulties or a
nurse for his sprees, you may
have to drop him until he changes his mind.
15.
Maybe there are serious domestic or romantic difficulties, or perhaps that boy we thought God was looking after becomes a military casualty.
16.
17.
18.
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.
19.
While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is
equally necessary that
we extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties
that we can.
20.
I pointed out that I had had
nothing to drink whatever for three years, and this in the face of
difficulties that would have made nine out
of ten men drink their heads off.
21.
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.
22.
Notice that the word "fear" is bracketed alongside the difficulties
with Mr. Brown, Mrs. Jones, the employer, and the wife.
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