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Then perhaps life, as it has
a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump that we can't begin to swallow, let alone digest.
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Neither its General Service Conference, its Foundation Board,(*) nor the humblest group committee can issue a single directive to an A.A. member and make it stick, let alone mete out any punishment.
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Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you.
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It may be that both will decide that the way of good sense and loving kindness is to let by-gones be by-gones.
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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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If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to let God take us to better things, we believe we will be forgiven and will have learned our lesson.
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Before tackling the inventory problem in detail, let's have a closer look at what the basic problem is.
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Let's have an election!"
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Let's here take note of our improved outlook upon the problems of personal importance, power, ambition, and leadership.
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Yet let him drink for a day, and he frequently becomes disgustingly, and even dangerously anti-social.
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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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Though the family does not
fully agree with dad's spiritual activities, they should let
him have his head.
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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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The expression on the faces of the women, that indefinable something
in the eyes of the men, the stimulating and electric
atmosphere of the place,
conspired to let him know that here was haven at last.
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Let him know you are available if he wishes to make a decision and tell his story, but do not insist upon it if he prefers to consult someone else.
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But let him tell you:
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Let him tell you about it: "I
was much impressed with
what you fellows said about
alcoholism, and I frankly did not believe it
would be possible for me to drink again.
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If anyone questions whether he has entered this
dangerous area, let him try leaving liquor alone for one year.
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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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Let it be noted, too, that they
were almost always concerned with ways to make A.A. more
effective, how to do the most good for the most alcoholics.
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Let it go at that.
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Before we ask what a spot-check inventory is, let's look at the kind of setting in which such an inventory can do its work.
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Wishing to be polite, though I felt very badly, I said, "Let's make the call," and extracted from my wife a promise that we would not stay
over fifteen minutes.
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"But," he asked, "will you
let me join your group? Since I am the victim of
another addiction even worse stigmatized than alcoholism, you may not want
me among you. Or will you?"
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Obviously, A.A. had to be publicized somehow, so we
resorted to the idea that it
would be far better to let our friends do this for us.
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Now let's ponder the need for a list of the more glaring personality defects all of us have in varying degrees.
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To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be
called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
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If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental,
let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted
and encouraged this movement.
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If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental,
let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted
and encouraged this movement.
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Since most of us are born with an abundance of natural desires, it isn't strange
that we often let these far exceed their intended purpose.
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And even in those cases where such a matter must be discussed, let's try to avoid harming third parties, whoever they may be.
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Some who feel they have done well may dispute this, so let's try to think it through a little further.
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Let us be reassured.
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Let us become willing to partake and be strengthened and lifted
up by the sheer spiritual power, beauty, and love of which these
magnificent words are
the carriers.
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We had refused to learn the
very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable.
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Let us have a look at some of
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Let us look now upon the sea and ponder what its mystery is; and let us lift our eyes to the far horizon, beyond which we shall seek all those wonders still unseen.
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Let us look now upon the sea and ponder what its mystery is; and let us lift our eyes to the far horizon, beyond which we shall seek all those wonders still unseen.
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Let us reemphasize that
this reluctance to fight
one another or anybody else is not counted as some special virtue which makes us feel superior to other people.
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As though lying upon a sunlit beach, let us relax and breathe deeply of the spiritual atmosphere with which the grace of this prayer surrounds us.
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Where people had temporarily let us run their lives as though they were still children, we had felt very happy and secure ourselves.
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While you need not discuss your husband at length, you can quietly let your friends know the nature of his illness.
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