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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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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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Our desires for sex, for material and emotional security, and for an important place in society often tyrannize us.
6.
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
7.
In such a case, this imperious urge can destroy his chances for material and emotional security as well as his standing in the community.
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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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It did not matter too much
what our material condition
was, but it did matter what our spiritual condition was.
10.
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.
11.
We think, therefore, that
any considerable property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from the
spiritual.
12.
We think, therefore, that
any considerable property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from the
spiritual.
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In the realm of the material,
men's minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sorts of
fixed ideas.
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He clamors for this or that, claiming he cannot master alcohol until his material needs are cared for.
16.
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
17.
This world of ours has made more material progress in the last century than in all the millenniums which went before.
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But as time passed we found that with the help of A.A.'s Twelve Steps we could lose those fears, no matter what our material prospects were.
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We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were
not the purpose of living.
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We must be quite as careful when we begin to achieve some measure of importance and material success.
23.
"As material success founded upon no more than these ordinary attributes began to come to us, we felt we were winning at the game of life.
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Where the possession of money and material things was concerned, our outlook underwent the same revolutionary change.
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These tiny bodies are governed by precise laws, and these laws hold true throughout the material world.
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When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence,
right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.
28.
It is being constantly revealed, as mankind studies the material world, that outward appearances are not inward
reality at all.
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