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Absence of coercion works because unless each A.A. follows suggested Steps to recovery, he signs his own death warrant.
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This meant, of course, that
we had been given the courage to declare each A.A. group
an individual entity, strictly reliant on its own conscience as a guide to action.
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4. With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group
should be responsible to no
other authority than its own conscience.
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Four -- With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience.
7.
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.
8.
Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant.
9.
Just as the aim of each A.A. member is personal sobriety, the aim of our services is to bring sobriety within reach of all who want it.
10.
The ability of each A.A. to identify himself with and bring recovery to the newcomer is
a gift from God... passing on this gift to others is our one aim.
11.
The unique ability of each A.A. to identify himself with, and
bring recovery to, the newcomer in no way depends upon his learning, eloquence, or on any special individual skills.
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5. Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose -- that of carrying its message to the alcoholic
who still suffers.
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Five -- Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but
one primary purpose -- that of carrying
its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
14.
We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show
us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.
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They will approach still other sick ones and fellowships of Alcoholics Anonymous may
spring up in each city and hamlet, havens for those who must find a way out.
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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.
20.
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.
21.
Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and
hope.
22.
We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done."
23.
... each element
of A.A. -- the Conference, the ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
III. To insure effective leadership, we
should endow each element of A.A. -- the Conference, the General Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives -- with a traditional "Right of Decision."
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We think each family which has been relieved owes something to those who have
not, and when the occasion requires, each member of it should be only too willing to bring former mistakes, no matter how grievous, out of their hiding places.
27.
Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all
the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening.
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As animals on a treadmill, we have patiently and wearily climbed, falling back in exhaustion after each futile effort to reach solid ground.
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Five -- Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic
who still suffers.
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Tradition Five -- "Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers."
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"Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers."
34.
Four -- Each group should be autonomous
except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
35.
Tradition Four -- "Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole."
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We think that each group should soon achieve this ideal; that any public solicitation of funds using the name of Alcoholics Anonymous is
highly dangerous, whether by groups, clubs, hospitals, or other outside agencies; that acceptance
of large gifts from any source, or of contributions carrying
any obligation whatever, is unwise.
38.
We think that each group should soon achieve this ideal; that any public solicitation of funds using the name of Alcoholics Anonymous is
highly dangerous, whether by groups, clubs, hospitals, or other outside agencies; that acceptance
of large gifts from any source, or of contributions carrying
any obligation whatever, is unwise.
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It was thought that no alcoholic man or woman could be excluded from
our Society; that our leaders might serve but never govern; that each group was to be autonomous and there was to be no professional class of therapy.
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Questions like these, more of which will come to mind easily in each individual case, will help turn up the root causes.
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Each individual, in the personal stories, describes in his own language and from his own point of view the way he established his relationship with God.
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After we have made the list of people we have harmed, have reflected carefully upon each instance, and have tried to possess ourselves of the right attitude in which to proceed, we will see that the making of direct amends divides those we should approach into several classes.
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This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work?
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As each member of a resentful family begins to see his shortcomings and admits
them to the others, he lays a
basis for helpful discussion.
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We think each family which has been relieved owes something to those who have
not, and when the occasion requires, each member of it should be only too willing to bring former mistakes, no matter how grievous, out of their hiding places.
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So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness
and love.
60.
IV. At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a traditional
"Right of Participation," allowing a voting representation in reasonable proportion
to the responsibility that each must discharge.
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Each needed to consider the others, and in
abiding faith they knew they must find their real strength.
63.
Why did we leave it to each newcomer to decide himself whether he was an alcoholic
and whether he should join
us?
64.
Therefore, ask yourself on each occasion, "Have I any good social, business, or personal reason for going to this place?
65.
Indeed, the attainment
of greater humility is
the foundation principle of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps.
66.
When writing or speaking
publicly about alcoholism, we urge each of our Fellowship to omit his personal name, designating himself instead as "a member of Alcoholics Anonymous."
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Isn't it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance
of Alcoholics Anonymous?
69.
And do not his actions make
each of them wish to retaliate, snatching all
they can get out of the show?
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Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered enough under its weight to be willing to look for something better.
72.
Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking
effort to discover what
these liabilities in each
of us have been, and are.
73.
As we lay aside these very human aspirations, we believe
that each of us takes part in the weaving of a protective mantle which covers our whole Society and under which we may
grow and work in unity.
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Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character defects are.
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This should be an entirely personal affair which each one decides for himself in the light of past associations, or his present choice.
77.
The alcoholic, his wife,
his children, his "in-laws",
each one is likely to have fixed ideas about the family's attitude towards himself or herself.
78.
Even so, when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification: "...if it be Thy will."
79.
Aided by such instruction and example
as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way.
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If you both show a willingness to remedy your
own defects, there will be little need to criticize each other.
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It occurred to us that we could take what we had into the factories and cause laborers and capitalists
to love each other.
83.
We do talk about each other a great deal, but we almost invariably temper such talk by a spirit of love and tolerance.
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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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In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
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Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and constantly thinking how
they might present their discovery to some newcomer.
91.
A.A. Preamble -- Alcoholics Anonymous is
a fellowship of people
who share their experience, strength and
hope with each other that they may solve their
common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
92.
Cleaning up old scrapes, helping to settle family differences, explaining the disinherited son to his irate parents, lending money and securing jobs for each other, when justified -- these are everyday occurrences.
93.
Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted.
94.
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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Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players in his own way.
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As beginners in meditation, we might now reread this prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea.
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To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and
for the strength to do the right thing.
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It is plain for everybody
to see that each sober A.A. member has been granted a release from this very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession.
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In our personal stories
you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which
is greater than himself.
106.
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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At the very beginning, the
couple ought to frankly face the fact that each will have to yield here and there if the family is
going to play an effective part in the new life.
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