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It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities;
that we are actually to practice a genuine humility.
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Edward Dowling, S.J.,(*) of the Queen's Work staff, says, "Alcoholics Anonymous is natural; it is
natural at the point where
nature comes closest to the supernatural, namely in
humiliations and in consequent humility.
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What is humility?
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For we had started to get perspective on ourselves, which is another
way of saying that we were gaining in humility.
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But while this was a humiliating experience, it didn't necessarily mean that we had
yet acquired much actual humility.
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Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.
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In all these strivings, so many of them well-intentioned, our crippling handicap had
been our lack of humility.
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Even the chief architect, standing in the
ruins of his dream, could laugh at himself -- and that is
the very acme of humility.
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It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities;
that we are actually to practice a genuine humility.
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Another great dividend we may expect from
confiding our defects to
another human being is humility -- a word often misunderstood.
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True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance
that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him.
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By their example they showed us that humility and intellect could be compatible, provided we
placed humility first.
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We may still have no very high opinion of humility as a desirable personal virtue, but we do recognize
it as a necessary aid to our
survival.
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The Seventh Step is where we
make the change in our attitude which permits us,
with humility as our guide, to
move out from ourselves toward others and toward God.
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It was only at the end of a long
road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.
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To get completely away from our aversion to the
idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for
itself, takes most of us a long, long time.
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A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we
must have.
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To get completely away from our aversion to the
idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for
itself, takes most of us a long, long time.
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But when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed
them with another, and have become willing to have them removed, our thinking about
humility commences to have
a wider meaning.
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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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We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity,
is the greatest safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous can
ever have.
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But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.
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By their example they showed us that humility and intellect could be compatible, provided we
placed humility first.
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Lose sense of isolation, receive forgiveness and give it; learn humility; gain honesty and realism about ourselves.
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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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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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Since this Step so specifically concerns
itself with humility, we
should pause here to consider what humility is and
what the practice of it can mean to us.
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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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It is a step in the development of that kind of
humility that makes it possible for us to receive
God's help.
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During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was the change in
our attitude toward God.
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Lacking both practice and humility, they had
deluded themselves and
were able to justify the most
arrant nonsense on the ground that this was what God had
told them.
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Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the
new order of things, were the essential
requirements.
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But as he calmed down, he began to listen while I tried to show him that humility was the main key to sobriety.
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Since this Step so specifically concerns
itself with humility, we
should pause here to consider what humility is and
what the practice of it can mean to us.
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