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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.
Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and
hope.
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Nevertheless, I still
thought I could control
the situation, and there were periods of sobriety which renewed my wife's hope.
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He may bring new hope and new courage to many a priest, minister, or rabbi, who gives his all to minister to our troubled world.
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This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor's telling him that while his religious convictions
were very good, in his case they did not spell the necessary vital spiritual experience.
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Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems
that they will be persuaded
to say, "Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing."
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We are delighted with this dependence; our main hope is that nothing will ever cut
off the supply of current.
10.
Our hope is that when this chip
of a book is launched on the
world tide of alcoholism, defeated drinkers will seize upon it, to follow its suggestions.
11.
But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of
a spiritual experience, this business
of resentment is infinitely grave.
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Then he asked for the grace to
bring love, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light, and joy to every human being he could.
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I have since been brought into a way of living infinitely more satisfying and, I hope, more useful than the life I lived before.
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Sometimes this was a tedious process; we hope no one else will be prejudiced for as long as
some of us were.
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This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
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By this time I was beginning to pay very dearly physically and, in hope of relief, voluntarily incarcerated myself at least a dozen times in one of the local sanitariums.
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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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Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he escapes his own difficulties.
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Many times we talk to a new man and watch his hope rise as we discuss his alcoholic problems and explain our fellowship.
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Some day we hope that Alcoholics Anonymous will help the public to a better realization of the gravity of the alcoholic problem, but we shall be of little use if our attitude is one of bitterness or hostility.
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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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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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Some day we hope that every alcoholic who journeys will find a Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at
his destination.
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We hope that the collective spiritual experience of the A.A. pioneers captured in these
pages continues to help alcoholics and friends of A.A. understand the principles of our program.
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"Lord, make me a channel of thy peace -- that where there is hatred, I may bring love -- that where there is wrong,
I may bring the spirit of forgiveness -- that where there is discord, I may bring harmony -- that where there is error, I may bring truth -- that where there is doubt, I may bring faith -- that where there is despair, I may bring hope -- that where there are shadows, I may bring light -- that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
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If you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened to me"; or,
more important, "Yes, I've felt like that"; or, most important, "Yes, I believe this program can work for me too."
31.
We hope the doctor will tell the patient the truth about his condition, whatever that
happens to be.
32.
For them, we hope these pages
will prove so convincing that no further authentication
will be necessary.
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To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
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In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
40.
A.A. Preamble -- Alcoholics Anonymous is
a fellowship of people
who share their experience, strength and
hope with each other that they may solve their
common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
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His alcoholic problem
was so complex, and his depression so great, that we
felt his only hope would be through what we then called
"moral psychology," and
we doubted if even that would
have any effect.
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As our work spreads and our
numbers increase, we
hope your employees may be
put in personal contact with some of us.
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