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Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior?
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Since the third edition was
published in 1976, worldwide membership of
A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.
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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.
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To him, this proposition will be no theory at all; it will be just about the largest fact in his life.
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The immense resources now being harnessed promise such a quantity of material blessings that many have come to believe that a man-made millennium lies just ahead.
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Even the suggestion of such a thing never fails to whip up a hurricane, and we have discovered that hurricanes have a way of mauling with equal severity both the just and the unjust.
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We asked ourselves this:
Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable
about the realm of the spirit
as were the ancients about the realm of the material?
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And we cling with a passionate persistence
to others which are just as disturbing to our equilibrium, because we
still enjoy them too much.
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Just as firmly bound by obligation are the
members of Alcoholics
Anonymous, who have demonstrated that they can help problem drinkers as others seldom can.
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Some time later, and just as he thought he was getting control of his liquor situation, he went on a roaring bender.
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We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill.
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The section called "The Doctor's Opinion" has been kept intact, just as it was originally written in 1939 by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, our
Society's great medical benefactor.
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We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just
as much as the feeling we
have for a friend.
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There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our sobriety.
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The bleeding deacon is one who is just as surely convinced that the group cannot get along without him, who constantly connives for
reelection to office,
and who continues to be consumed with self-pity.
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Just as the aim of each A.A. member is personal sobriety, the aim of our services is to bring sobriety within reach of all who want it.
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The basic principles of
the A.A. program, it appears, hold good for individuals with many different lifestyles, just as the program has brought recovery to those of many different nationalities.
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Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.
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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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And just as we were being convinced of their heartlessness, they would surprise us with fresh resolves and new attentions.
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It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control
our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that we
were in full flight from reality, or were outright mental defectives.
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When evening comes, perhaps just before going to sleep, many of us draw up a balance sheet for the day.
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I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness
as he spoke of these things
just before he died; these recollections
welled up from the past.
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It just comes!
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Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required
just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy.
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For most alcoholics who are drinking, or who are just getting over a spree, a certain amount of physical treatment is desirable,
even imperative.
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Therefore our problem now becomes just how and by what specific means shall we be able to let Him in?
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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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What happens when we try to dominate the whole family, either by a rule of iron or by a constant outpouring of minute directions for just how their lives should be lived from hour to hour?
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How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves
just what we shall think and just how we shall act.
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This just isn't so.
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But just like all other societies, we do have
sex and marital problems, and sometimes
they are distressingly acute.
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With us it is just like that.
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Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we
are going to be inspired at
all times.
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Understand he was once a
well-known lawyer in town, but just now we've got him strapped down tight.(*)
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Or we may just procrastinate, telling
ourselves the time is not
yet, when in reality we have
already passed up many a fine
chance to right a serious wrong.
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Just resign from the debating society and quit bothering yourself with such deep questions as whether it was the hen or the egg that came first.
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He has just returned from a
three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."
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Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
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As we had once struggled
and prayed for individual recovery,
just so earnestly did we commence to quest for the principles through which
A.A. itself might survive.
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For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own individual strength and
intelligence, for just
that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.
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Well, just that did happen and more, for what I had
learned of alcoholism
did not occur to me at all.
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We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us.
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For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own individual strength and
intelligence, for just
that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.
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We were still sure that we ought to be fairly honest, tolerant, and just, that we ought to be ambitious and hardworking.
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If, however, our natural disposition is inclined
to self-righteousness
or grandiosity, our reaction will be just the opposite.
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The Foundation was really hard up just then; the groups weren't sending in enough for the support of the office; we had
been tossing in all the book
income and even that hadn't
been enough.
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The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole
attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.
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They understood that the elders, just to nail things down good, were about to apply to the Foundation for
a charter.
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Just to the extent that we do
as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.
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In later life he finds that real happiness is not to be found
in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-rater in the heartbreaking struggle
for money, romance, or self-importance.
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A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred
thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.
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I still expected a plea for clemency, but these words came through the receiver: "I
just wanted to tell you Paul jumped from a hotel window in Hartford last Saturday.
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Consequently, many groups began to hold meetings which were open to interested friends and the public, so
that the average citizen
could see for himself just what A.A. was all about.
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When, and how, and in just what instances did my selfish pursuit of the sex relation damage other people and me?
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As we approach the actual
taking of Step Seven, it might be well if we A.A.'s inquire once more just what our deeper objectives are.
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How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves
just what we shall think and just how we shall act.
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Just would he like to?
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