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These are universal experiences.
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The remainder of the book
was devoted to thirty stories or case histories in which the alcoholics described
their drinking experiences
and recoveries.
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... experiences are
what the psychologist William James ...
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Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William James calls the "educational variety" because they develop slowly over a period of time.
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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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If hundreds of experiences
have shown him that one drink means another debacle with all its attendant suffering and humiliation, why is it he takes that one drink?
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But this was a man who had experienced many years of frightful drinking, who had had most all the drunkard's experiences known to man, but who had been cured by the very means I had been trying to employ, that is to say the spiritual approach.
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Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression
that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in the nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals.
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Another principle we observe carefully is that
we do not relate intimate
experiences of another person unless we are sure he would approve.
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His own character may still be gravely defective, but he somehow
knows that God has enabled him to make a mighty beginning, and he senses that he stands at the edge of new mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed.
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After a few such experiences, often years before the onset of extreme difficulties, he
would return to us convinced.
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Tell him enough about your drinking habits, symptoms, and experiences to encourage him to speak of himself.
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From great numbers of such experiences, we could predict that the doubter who
still claimed that he hadn't
got the "spiritual angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name.
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If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed
in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we
have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
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We may often pass through Twelfth Step experiences where we will seem to be temporarily off the beam.
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The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole
attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.
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