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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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This the sponsor promptly
proves by talking freely and easily, and without exhibitionism,
about his own defects, past and present.
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Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought to
be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely
discarded by the groups.
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Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought to
be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely
discarded by the groups.
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In the next years alcoholics flocked to A.A. by tens of thousands, largely as the
result of excellent and
continuous publicity
freely given by magazines and newspapers
throughout the world.
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Alone now, he reflects that he may not be able to stay sober, or even alive, unless he passes on to other alcoholics what was so freely
given him.
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While I lay in the hospital the thought came that there were thousands
of hopeless alcoholics
who might be glad to have what had been so freely given me.
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Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
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In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves, made amends to those we had harmed, or freely given to any other human being without any demand for reward.
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