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Since both ways have proved bitterly disappointing, they have concluded there is no place whatever for them to
go.
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Some of us are salesmen and go about.
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How may we go about it?
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It never fails, if you go about it with one half the zeal you have been in the
habit of showing when you
were getting another drink.
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Now willing to commence the search for his
own defects, he will ask, "Just how do I go about this? How do
I take inventory of myself?"
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Some of us have tried to hold
on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely.
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This thought brings us to
Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to
set right any new mistakes as we go along.
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If it is a happy occasion,
try to increase the pleasure of those there; if a
business occasion, go and attend to your business enthusiastically.
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I failed to persuade my broker friends to send me out looking over factories and managements, but my wife and
I decided to go anyway.
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Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to others, so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful.
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He can go anywhere on this
earth where other free men may go without disaster, provided he remains willing to maintain a certain simple attitude.
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If he is conscientiously following the program of recovery he can go anywhere your business may
call him.
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Even if he displays a certain amount of neglect and irresponsibility towards the family, it is well to let him go as far as he likes in helping other alcoholics.
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Let it go at that.
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I was, of course, soon on the
carpet and the upshot was
that I had to go back for two more quarters and remain absolutely dry, if I wished to graduate.
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All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they
all deflate our egos.
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We can go far beyond those things which were superficially wrong with
us, to see those flaws which were basic, flaws which sometimes were responsible for the whole
pattern of our lives.
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They were sure that A.A. could
go faster and farther if it availed itself of modern publicity methods.
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I could go for such conceptions as Creative
Intelligence, Universal Mind or Spirit of Nature but I resisted the thought of a Czar of the Heavens, however loving His sway might be.
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He may not share your enthusiasm, but he is practically sure to read the book and he may go for the program at once.
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We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we have to go, for we are liable to drink if we are afraid to face them.
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It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from
the pains of growing up.
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People have said we must not go where liquor is served; we must not have it in our homes; we
must shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn't think or be reminded about alcohol at
all.
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The A.A. groups, many thought, could go into business, might finance any enterprise whatever in
the total field of alcoholism.
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They even had to coin a couple of sentences which still go into half the letters they write: "Of course, you are at perfect liberty to handle this matter any way you please.
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The only answer I could make
was that if the man followed
the usual pattern, he would
go on a bigger bust than ever.
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Of an evening, you can go on
a mild bender, get up in the morning, shake your head and go to business.
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The tyrant alcohol wielded a double-edged sword over us: first we were smitten by an insane urge that condemned us to
go on drinking, and then by
an allergy of the body that
insured we would ultimately destroy ourselves in the process.
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And it can go on for years.
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After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and
actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to change profoundly.
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Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: "Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything
to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!"
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The moment we ponder a twisted or broken relationship with another person, our emotions go on the defensive.
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We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from
which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to
go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation as best we could;
and the other, to accept spiritual help.
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Unlike the feelings of the
ship's passengers,
however, our joy in escape from
disaster does not subside
as we go our individual ways.
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If my wife was planning to
go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.
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When this sort of thinking
is fully established in
an individual with alcoholic tendencies, he
has probably placed himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.
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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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While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied.
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While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never to go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied.
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As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and
ask for the right thought or action.
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We won't be biased or scared
off by that fact, because although he was not an alcoholic he did, like us,
go through the emotional wringer.
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I can't go through with it."
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If that is so, this step may be postponed, only, however, if we hold ourselves in complete readiness to
go through with it at the first opportunity.
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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.
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He has read this volume and says he is prepared to go through with the Twelve Steps of the program of recovery.
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Then let his family or a friend ask him if he wants to quit for good and if he would go to any extreme to do so.
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After satisfying yourself that your man wants to recover and that he will go to any extreme to do so, you may suggest a definite course of action.
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If you have decided you want
what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it -- then you are
ready to take certain steps.
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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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Of an evening, you can go on
a mild bender, get up in the morning, shake your head and go to business.
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From childhood through
high school I was more or less forced to go to church, Sunday School and evening service, Monday night Christian Endeavor and sometimes to
Wednesday evening prayer meeting.
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Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted.
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We go to him in a helpful and
forgiving spirit, confessing our former ill feeling and expressing our regret.
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Being certain he wants to stop, you can go to him with this volume as joyfully as though you had struck oil.
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We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past.
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We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with
pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above selfishness or dishonesty.
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After reading this book, a junior executive can go to such a man and say approximately this, "Look here, Ed.
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During the subsequent fifteen years I had sense enough never to go to the hospital if I had been drinking, and very seldom did I receive patients.
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He consented, however, to go to the hospital, where he occupied the very room recently vacated by the lawyer.
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In our drinking time, we acted as if the money supply was inexhaustible, though between binges we'd sometimes go to the other extreme and become almost miserly.
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Those of us belonging to a
religious denomination which requires confession must, and of course, will want to go to the properly appointed authority whose duty it is to receive it.
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People have said we must not go where liquor is served; we must not have it in our homes; we
must shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn't think or be reminded about alcohol at
all.
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As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combination of high-powered sedative and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work.
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In imagination the gleaming center was to go up several
stories more, but three would do for a start.
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People have said we must not go where liquor is served; we must not have it in our homes; we
must shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn't think or be reminded about alcohol at
all.
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He can go anywhere on this
earth where other free men may go without disaster, provided he remains willing to maintain a certain simple attitude.
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Even though your husband becomes unbearable and you have to leave him temporarily, you
should, if you can, go without rancor.
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