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Or, going to the other extreme, we had wallowed in
emotionalism and had mistaken it for true religious feeling.
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3.
We go to him in a helpful and
forgiving spirit, confessing our former ill feeling and expressing our regret.
4.
Though it was not our intention to create such an impression, many alcoholics have nevertheless concluded
that in order to recover
they must acquire an immediate and overwhelming "God-consciousness" followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook.
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6.
This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
7.
The feeling of having shared
in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.
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9.
In a perverse way we can actually take satisfaction from the fact
that many people annoy us, for it brings a comfortable feeling of superiority.
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11.
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we had
a feeling of uselessness,
we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be
of real help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
12.
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.
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15.
But the moment I made up my mind to go
through with the process,
I had the curious feeling
that my alcoholic condition was relieved, as
in fact it proved to be.
16.
We want to leave you with the
feeling that no situation is too difficult and no unhappiness too great to be
overcome.
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18.
This vital Step was also the means by which we began to get the feeling that we could be forgiven,
no matter what we had thought or done.
19.
Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the
feeling that we didn't quite belong.
20.
Still more wonderful is the feeling that
we do not have to be specially distinguished among our
fellows in order to be useful and profoundly happy.
21.
Can you discard the feeling
that you are dealing only with habit, with stubbornness,
or a weak will?
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23.
When the thought was expressed that there might be a God personal to me this feeling was intensified.
24.
Another feeling we are very likely to entertain is one of resentment that love and loyalty could not cure our husbands of alcoholism.
25.
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just
as much as the feeling we have
for a friend.
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