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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Alcoholics Anonymous
can be likened to a group of
physicians who might find
a cure for cancer, and upon whose concerted work would depend the answer for sufferers of this disease.
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I also had the notion that I
might find a customer for a
car at this place, which was familiar for I had been going
to it for years.
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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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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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Returning home we find a place where we can be quiet for an hour, carefully reviewing what
we have done.
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Its main object is to enable you to
find a Power greater than yourself which
will solve your problem.
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If you and your husband find
a solution for the pressing problem of drink you are, of course, going to be very happy.
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Reminding ourselves
that we have decided to go to
any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be
given strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.
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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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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.
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If you cannot find A.A. in your locality, visit our Web site: www.aa.org; or a letter addressed to Alcoholics
Anonymous, Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, USA, will receive a prompt reply from this world center, referring you to the nearest A.A. group.
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There are the same fast friendships, there is the same helpfulness to one another as you find among our western friends.
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And we will be comforted
and assured that our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we try, however falteringly, to find and do
the will of our own Creator.
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Though the essays which follow were written mainly for members, it is thought by many of A.A.'s friends that these pieces might arouse interest and find application outside A.A. itself.
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Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our daily lives so that we and those about us may find emotional sobriety.
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He may demand that the family find God in a hurry, or exhibit amazing indifference to them and say
he is above worldly considerations.
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Although these reparations take innumerable forms, there
are some general principles which we find guiding.
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Ever since, these friends
have reported A.A. with an enthusiasm which the most ardent members would find hard to match.
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We doubt if many of them can do
it, because none will really want to stop, and hardly one of them, because of the peculiar mental twist already acquired, will find he can win out.
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Being possessed of a spiritual experience,
the alcoholic will find he has much in common with these people, though he may differ with them
on many matters.
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Those having religious affiliations will find here nothing disturbing to
their beliefs or ceremonies.
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May you find Him now!
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The doctors weren't trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to find whatever personality traits, if any, this group of alcoholics had in common.
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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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If a sufficiently strong reason -- ill health, falling in love, change of environment, or
the warning of a doctor --
becomes operative, this
man can also stop or moderate, although he may find it difficult and troublesome and may even need medical attention.
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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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But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.
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When we do that, we find it solves our problems too; the
ensuing lack of fear, worry and hurt feelings is a wonderful thing.
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Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding
companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what had
happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.
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Now and then, A.A. members have bought farms or rest homes where badly beat-up topers could find needed care.
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If he does not argue about religion, he will make new friends and is sure to find new avenues of usefulness and
pleasure.
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The principle that we shall find no
enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered.
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When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
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Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no
answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
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There's the spot-check inventory, taken at any time of the day, whenever we find ourselves getting tangled up.
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By so accepting our dependence upon this marvel of science, we find ourselves more independent personally.
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However, because the book has
helped so many alcoholics find recovery, there exists strong sentiment within the Fellowship against any change to it.
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When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
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Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some
time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
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And as we grow spiritually, we find that
our old attitudes toward our instincts need to undergo drastic revisions.
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Nevertheless, we find
that our thinking will, as
time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration.
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With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with
their own conception of a
Power greater than themselves.
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Because our surface record hasn't looked too bad, we have frequently been
abashed to find that this is
so simply because we have
buried these selfsame defects deep down in us under thick layers of self-justification.
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In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.
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Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more.
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Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we
still need to exercise special vigilance.
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Yet we find that's what we have
to be.
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Couples are occasionally dismayed
to find that when drinking
is stopped the man tends to be impotent.
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You and your husband will
find that you can dispose of
serious problems easier than you can the trivial ones.
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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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If that degree of humility
could enable us to find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly
have.
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Finally, he saw that I wasn't
attempting to change his
religious views, that I wanted him to find the grace in his own religion that would aid his recovery.
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We find the more one member of the family demands that the others concede to him, the more resentful they become.
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Each needed to consider the others, and in
abiding faith they knew they must find their real strength.
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The family will be affected also, pleasantly at first, as they
feel their money troubles are about to be solved, then not so pleasantly as they find themselves neglected.
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But where and how were we to find this Power?
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Strangely enough, wives, parents and intimate friends usually find us even more unapproachable than do the psychiatrist and the doctor.
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But those of us who have tried
to shoulder the entire burden and trouble of others find we are soon overcome by them.
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Although these attitudes are common enough, we A.A.'s find we need something much better in order to keep our balance.
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The doctors weren't trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to find whatever personality traits, if any, this group of alcoholics had in common.
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If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
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