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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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These work-outs should be regarded as part of your education, for thus you will be learning to live.
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One more suggestion: Whether the family has spiritual convictions or not, they may do well to examine the principles by which the alcoholic member is trying to live.
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At first he goes along because he must, but later he discovers a way of life he really wants to live.
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A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character
defects which cause or aggravate them.
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To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be
happy.
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Instead of regarding the
satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and
function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.
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Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles.
The group must survive or the individual
will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.
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But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect.
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When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.
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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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But we are sure that no class of people in the world ever made a worse mess of trying to live by this formula than alcoholics.
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Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their Creator's desire to give them new life.
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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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Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: "Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything
to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!"
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We are certain that our intelligence, backed by
willpower, can rightly
control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world we live in.
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Follow the dictates of a
Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!
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Those of us who live in large cities are overcome by the reflection that close by hundreds are dropping into
oblivion every day.
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This to the end that our great
blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation
of Him who presides over us
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This to the end that our great
blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation
of Him who presides over us
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Learning how to live in the
greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and
women, of whatever description, is a moving
and fascinating adventure.
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We live in the imminent possibility of a fresh holocaust to determine
how men shall be governed, and how the products of nature and toil shall be divided among them.
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We have to live it.
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In the doctor's judgment
he was utterly hopeless;
he could never regain his position in society and he
would have to place himself
under lock and key or hire a bodyguard if he expected
to live long.
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To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face.
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If your husband is trying
to live on a spiritual basis, he will also be doing everything in his power to
avoid disagreement or
contention.
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We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves.
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The notion that we would still live our own lives, God helping a little now and then, began to evaporate.
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As we discovered the principles by which the individual alcoholic
could live, so we had to evolve principles by which
the A.A. groups and A.A. as a whole could survive and function effectively.
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Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and
live to good purpose under all conditions?
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Without it, they cannot live
to much useful purpose, or, in adversity,
be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency.
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They live today in the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous,
which -- God willing -- shall sustain us in unity for so long as He may need us.
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Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we
could not live up to them even though we would have liked to.
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Unless one's family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them.
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In Step Eleven we saw that if a Higher Power had restored us to sanity and had enabled us to
live with some peace of mind in a sorely troubled world, then such a Higher Power was worth knowing better, by as direct contact as possible.
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In the midst of such pandemonium they may have rushed out threatening to live with the
other woman forever.
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