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But also like others, we often discover a greater challenge in the lesser and
more continuous problems of life.
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Then we are hurt and confused when the advice is
rejected, or when it is accepted and brings still greater confusion.
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Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when
some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when
some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.
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Indeed, the attainment
of greater humility is the
foundation principle
of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps.
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We conceive the survival
and spread of Alcoholics
Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.
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When by devoted service to
family, friends, business, or community we
attract widespread affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility and
trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service.
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The experiment of quitting for a period of time will be helpful, but we think we can render an even greater service to alcoholic sufferers and
perhaps to the medical fraternity.
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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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The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles.
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Practically every A.A. member declares that no satisfaction has been deeper and no joy greater than in a Twelfth Step job well done.
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I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief
now.
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While the comment or advice of others may be by no means infallible, it is likely to
be far more specific than any direct guidance we may receive while we are still so inexperienced in
establishing contact
with a Power greater than ourselves.
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For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
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It is really saying to us
that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we did
when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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Most of us think this awareness of a Power greater than ourselves is the essence of spiritual experience.
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We found that as soon as we
were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in
a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced
to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which
is God.
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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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In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a power greater than themselves, if they
are to re-create their lives.
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They flatly declare that
since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a
revolutionary change
in their way of living and thinking.
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In this respect they are certainly a power greater than you, who have not even come close to a solution.
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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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As the message of recovery has reached larger numbers of people, it has also touched the lives of a vastly greater variety of suffering alcoholics.
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When temporary good fortune came our way, we indulged ourselves in fantasies of
still greater victories over people and circumstances.
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