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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to
see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance of
what we receive as we carry
A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
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We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities
of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along.
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If he temporizes and still thinks he can ever drink again, even beer, he might as well be discharged after the next bender which, if an alcoholic, he is almost certain to have.
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With a certain satisfaction I reflected there was enough
gin concealed about the house to carry me through that night and the
next day.
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But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.
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When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which
could supply us with the next
drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought.
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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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This resolution I kept steadfastly for the next forty years, except when circumstances made it seem unwise to absent myself.
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Next he can be assured that
you do not intend to lecture, moralize, or condemn; that if this was done
formerly, it was because
of misunderstanding.
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Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding
companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what had
happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.
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He came and got me home and to bed, gave me a few drinks that night, and one bottle of beer the next morning.
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I seemed to be able to snap back the next morning better than most of my fellow
drinkers, who were cursed
(or perhaps blessed) with
a great deal of morning-after nausea.
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My next move was to take up the study of medicine, entering one of the largest universities in
the country.
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My phobia for sleeplessness demanded
that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
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On the next page, A.A.'s "12 Traditions" are seen in their
so-called "short form" the form in general use today.
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He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.
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We usually conclude the
period of meditation
with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems.
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The wonderful energy it
releases and the eager action by which it carries our
message to the next suffering alcoholic and
which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon all our affairs is the payoff, the magnificent reality, of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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The next three years I spent in Boston, Chicago, and Montreal in the employ of a
large manufacturing concern, selling railway supplies, gas engines of all sorts, and many other items of heavy hardware.
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But when he gets over the spree, he begins to think once more how he can drink moderately next time.
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As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then.
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Next time you and he have a heated discussion, no matter what the subject, it should be the privilege of either to smile and say, "This is getting serious.
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I gave the matter much time and study for the next two and a half years, but I still got tight every night nevertheless.
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Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many
of us had never attempted.
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First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have
been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop
the best possible relations with every human being we know.
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In the next years alcoholics flocked to A.A. by tens of thousands, largely as the
result of excellent and
continuous publicity
freely given by magazines and newspapers
throughout the world.
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