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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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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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We have also seen men and women who go power-mad,
who devote themselves to
attempting to rule their
fellows.
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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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Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are
to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means.
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Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
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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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You fellows are somebody.
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Either we were shy, and dared not draw near others, or we were apt to be noisy good fellows craving attention and companionship, but never
getting it -- at least to
our way of thinking.
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We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone
to the extremes you fellows
did, nor are we likely to, for
we understand ourselves so well after what you have told us that
such things cannot happen again.
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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.
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If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care.
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Some of them may sink and perhaps never get up, but if our experience is a criterion, more than half of those approached will become fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Let him tell you about it: "I was
much impressed with what
you fellows said about alcoholism, and I frankly
did not believe it would be possible for me to drink again.
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I reasoned I was not so far
advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my
other personal problems, and that I would therefore be successful
where you men failed.
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Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist:
"This organization of Alcoholics Anonymous calls on two of the greatest reservoirs of power known to man, religion and that instinct for association
with one's fellows ... the 'herd instinct.'
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When we take such personality traits as
these into shop, office, and
the society of our fellows,
they can do damage almost as
extensive as that we have caused at home.
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