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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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to view that page in the literature.1.
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These give a fair cross section of our membership and a clear-cut idea of what has actually happened in their
lives.
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It became clear that if we ever were to feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop
the sense of being in partnership or brotherhood with all those
around us.
7.
When told that our Society
has no president having authority to govern it, no treasurer who can compel the payment of any dues, no board of directors who can cast an erring member into outer darkness, when indeed no A.A. can give
another a directive and
enforce obedience, our
friends gasp and exclaim, "This simply can't
be. There must be an angle somewhere."
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Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all.
10.
Doesn't nearly every society on earth give authority to some of its members to impose obedience upon the rest and to punish or expel offenders?
11.
He thought it better to
give comfort than to receive it; better to understand than to be understood; better to forgive than to be forgiven.
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If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor
that he means business,
give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or
dangerous.
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When we see a man sinking into the mire that is alcoholism, we give him first aid and place what we have at his disposal.
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It is the great paradox of
A.A. that we know we can seldom keep the precious gift of sobriety unless we give it away.
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Lose sense of isolation, receive forgiveness and give it; learn humility; gain honesty and realism about ourselves.
30.
We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms.
31.
Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round
forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step Five that we inwardly knew we'd be able to receive forgiveness and give it,
too.
32.
He did not design man to destroy himself by alcohol, but He did give man instincts to help him to stay alive.
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My secretary returned
to say that is was not Mr. B___ on
the phone; it was Mr. B___'s brother, and he wished to
give me a message.
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But when I became willing
to clean house and then asked a Higher Power, God as I understood Him, to give me release, my obsession to drink vanished.
37.
'Give me the business.'
38.
When you add to this the habitual supposition
that people ought to give money to alcoholics trying to stay sober, it can be understood why we thought we deserved a pile of folding money.
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Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all.
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The second section of this
volume, though designed for A.A.'s membership, will give such inquirers an inside view of A.A. never before possible.
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... give the
location of the nearest family ...
BB
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A., p.573
This headquarters will
give the location of the nearest family group and will, if you wish, correspond with you
about your special problems.
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We sit in A.A. meetings and listen, not only
to receive something ourselves, but to give the reassurance and support
which our presence can bring.
47.
Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all.
48.
Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their Creator's desire to give them new life.
49.
They expect him to give them
the nice times they used to have before he drank so much, and to show his contrition for what
they suffered.
50.
Those who do not recover are
people who cannot or will not
completely give themselves to this simple
program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.
51.
Even then the best of us will discover to our dismay that there is always a
sticking point, a point at which we say, "No, I can't give this up yet."
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So, you see, there were three alcoholics in that town, who
now felt they had to give to others what they had found, or be sunk.
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Perhaps we shall be obliged in some cases still to say, "This I cannot give up yet...,"
but we should not say to ourselves, "This I will never give up!"
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Moved by the spirit of anonymity, we try to give up our natural desires for personal distinction as
A.A. members both among fellow alcoholics and before the general public.
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Because A.A.'s Twelve Traditions repeatedly ask us to give up personal desires for the common good, we realize that the sacrificial spirit -- well symbolized by anonymity -- is the foundation of them all.
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Looking again at those defects we are still unwilling to give up, we ought to erase the hard-and-fast lines that we have drawn.
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Perhaps we shall be obliged in some cases still to say, "This I cannot give up yet...,"
but we should not say to ourselves, "This I will never give up!"
60.
Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us
serenity.
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They had said that though I
did raise a defense, it
would one day give way before some trivial reason for having a drink.
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We think we are sensible
when we urge that you stop this
waste and give your worthwhile man a chance.
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