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But in relation to us, it means very simply that every A.A. group can manage its affairs exactly as it pleases, except when A.A. as a whole is threatened.
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Tradition Seven -- "Every A.A. group
ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions."
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Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake.
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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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True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance
that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him.
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Practically every A.A. member declares that no satisfaction has been deeper and no joy greater than in a Twelfth Step job well done.
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It is to be hoped that every A.A. who has a religious connection which emphasizes meditation
will return to the practice of that devotion
as never before.
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The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.
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Now and then the family will be plagued by spectres from the past, for the
drinking career of almost every alcoholic has been marked by
escapades, funny, humiliating, shameful or
tragic.
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Then he fell victim to a belief which practically
every alcoholic has -- that
his long period of sobriety and self-discipline had qualified
him to drink as other men.
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At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a
state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail.
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I earnestly advise every alcoholic to read this book through, and though perhaps he came to scoff, he may remain to pray.
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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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Our earliest printing voiced the hope "that every alcoholic who journeys will find the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at
his destination.
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Relieved of responsibility, every alcoholic would shrug and say, "Oh, the Foundation is wealthy --
why should I bother?"
22.
Dad may feel that for years his drinking has placed him on the wrong side of every argument, but that now he has become a superior person with God on his side.
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Could any then imagine a society which would include
every conceivable kind of character, and cut across every barrier of race, creed, politics, and language with
ease?
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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.
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Children of chaos, we have
defiantly played with
every brand of fire, only to emerge unharmed and, we think, wiser.
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It has been validated in every century, and it characterizes the lives
of all spiritually centered and truly religious people.
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Sacks of letters on every conceivable A.A. problem ranging from a lonely-heart Eskimo to the growing pains of thousands of groups must be answered by people who know.
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Could any then imagine a society which would include
every conceivable kind of character, and cut across every barrier of race, creed, politics, and language with
ease?
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We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past.
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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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... every denomination
have given A.A. their blessing.
BB
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
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Throughout the world, immense and favorable publicity of every description has been the principal means of bringing alcoholics into
our Fellowship.
46.
If the Creator gave us our lives in the first place, then He must know in every detail where we have since gone
wrong.
47.
We threw money about in every direction with the purpose of pleasing ourselves and impressing
other people.
48.
A worthy charity wants to raise money; forthwith, its letterhead shows the name of every distinguished person whose support can be obtained.
49.
Every doctor concerned would at times wish he could devote himself to his chosen field rather than work only with the group.
50.
There is every evidence that
women regain their health as readily as men if they try our suggestions.
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By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.
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Therefore, every nation, in fact every form of society, has to be a government administered by human beings.
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Psychiatrists and psychologists point out the deep need every human being has for practical insight and knowledge of his own personality flaws and for a
discussion of them with an understanding and trustworthy person.
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Then he asked for the grace to
bring love, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light, and joy to every human being he could.
61.
We forgot that most alcoholics in A.A. have an earning power considerably above average; we forgot the immense goodwill of our brother A.A.'s who were only too
eager to help us to better jobs when we deserved them; we forgot the
actual or potential financial insecurity of
every human being in the world.
62.
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have
been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop
the best possible relations with every human being we know.
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Of course, there is such a thing as incompatibility, but in nearly every instance the alcoholic
only seems to be unloving
and inconsiderate; it is usually because he is warped and sickened that he
says and does these appalling things.
65.
Since this book was first published, A.A. has released thousands of alcoholics from asylums
and hospitals of every kind.
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Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three.
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But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.
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Actually we were fooling
ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental
idea of God.
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A great wave of outraged resentment engulfed the meeting, sweeping every member to a single resolve: "Out he goes!"
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Nearly every modern employer feels a moral responsibility for the well-being of his help, and he tries to meet these responsibilities.
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Therefore, every nation, in fact every form of society, has to be a government administered by human beings.
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Every new alcoholic looks for this spirit among us and is immensely relieved when he
finds we are not witch-burners.
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Every newcomer in Alcoholics Anonymous is
told, and soon realizes for himself, that
his humble admission of
powerlessness over alcohol is his first step toward liberation from its paralyzing grip.
85.
So when A.A. suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can
do.
86.
The Foundation(*) wrote
letters to practically
every news outlet in North America, setting forth our public relations policy of attraction rather than promotion, and emphasizing personal anonymity as A.A.'s greatest protection.
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On almost every newsfront, the men and women of the press have attached themselves to us
as friends.
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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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I gave the matter much time and study for the next two and a half years, but I still got tight every night nevertheless.
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Every normal person wants, for example, to eat, to reproduce, to be somebody
in the society of his fellows.
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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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By temperament, nearly
every one of us had been an irrepressible promoter, and the prospect
of a society composed almost entirely of promoters was frightening.
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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:
102.
Having been granted a perfect release from alcoholism, why then shouldn't
we be able to achieve by the
same means a perfect release from every other difficulty or defect?
103.
What happens when we wallow
in depression, self-pity oozing from every pore, and inflict that upon those about us?
104.
... every practical
purpose, the active voice and ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
II. The General Service Conference of A.A. has become, for nearly every practical purpose, the active voice and the effective conscience of
our whole Society in its world affairs.
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I felt I had every right to be self-confident, that it would be only a matter of exercising my will power and keeping on guard.
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He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the
hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and
that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
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... Every service
responsibility should be matched by ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
X. Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the
scope of such authority well defined.
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I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in
the way of my usefulness to
you and my fellows.
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To us it is not far-fetched,
for this kind of thinking
has been characteristic of every single one of us.
116.
Doesn't nearly every society on earth give authority to some of its members to impose obedience upon the rest and to punish or expel offenders?
117.
Nearly every sound human being experiences, at some
time in life, a compelling desire to find a mate of the opposite sex with whom the fullest possible union can be made -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.
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And this they did find, in measure to transcend all
the defects of their frail
craft, every test of uncertainty, pain, fear, and despair, and even the death of one.
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4. Because every time I do it I take out a little more insurance for myself against a possible slip.
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It is a spiritual axiom
that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is
something wrong with us.
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Every time we have tried to professionalize our Twelfth Step, the result has been exactly the same: Our single purpose has been defeated.
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We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past.
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These are some of the questions which race through the mind of every woman who has an alcoholic husband.
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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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