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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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When we became alcoholics, crushed by a
self-imposed crisis we could not postpone
or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing.
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He was interested and conceded that he had some of the symptoms, but he was a long way from admitting that he
could do nothing about it himself.
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Were our contentions true, it would follow that life originated out of nothing, means nothing, and proceeds nowhere.
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As to our grandiose behavior, we insisted that
we had been possessed of nothing but a high and legitimate ambition to win the battle of life.
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Could we still say the whole thing was nothing but a mass of electrons, created out of nothing, meaning nothing, whirling on to a destiny of
nothingness?
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This statement may surprise newcomers who
have experienced nothing
but constant deflation
and a growing conviction that human will is of no value whatever.
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But in the longer run we clearly realize that these
are only the pains of growing up, and nothing but good can come from them if we turn more and more to the entire Twelve Steps for the answers.
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Another may develop such an obsession for financial security that he
wants to do nothing but hoard money.
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As we morbidly pursue this
melancholy activity,
we may sink to such a point of despair that nothing but oblivion looks possible as a solution.
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Experience has often warned us that nothing can so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
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Experience has often warned us that nothing can so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
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In that time nothing could be seen but two struggling, nameless groups of alcoholics trying to hold their faces up to the light.
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Those having religious affiliations will find here nothing disturbing to their beliefs or ceremonies.
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But the testimony of A.A.'s
who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out
to be bogeymen, nothing else.
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We found that dependence
upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and
love was healthy, and that it
would work where nothing else would.
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We thought he ought to be willing to do that if necessary, but if he were in jail he could provide nothing for either family.
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If there were no social instinct, if men cared nothing for the society of one another, there would be no society.
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But nothing happened.
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We have found nothing incompatible between a
powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.
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After all his pleas for help had been rebuffed, these
words rang in his fevered mind: "They have deserted me. I have been deserted by my own kind. This is the end ... nothing is left."
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When, therefore, we were approached by those in whom
the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.
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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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Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member
can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere
be seen?
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Could we still say the whole thing was nothing but a mass of electrons, created out of nothing, meaning nothing, whirling on to a destiny of
nothingness?
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Were our contentions true, it would follow that life originated out of nothing, means nothing, and proceeds nowhere.
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Nothing more.
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I know, in my own particular case, that nothing my company could have done would have stopped me for,
so long as I was able to hold my position, I could not
possibly realize how serious my situation was.
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I had been out of town before during this particular dry spell, so there was nothing new about that.
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New acquaintances who know nothing of alcoholism might be made and
thoughtful considerations given
their needs.
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Here was the threat of commitment, the loss of family and position, to say nothing of that intense mental and physical suffering which
drinking always caused him.
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Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.
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But now the words "Of myself I am nothing, the Father doeth the works" began to carry bright promise and meaning.
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There was nothing to do but wait.
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I pointed out that I had had
nothing to drink whatever for three years, and this in the face of difficulties that would have made nine out
of ten men drink their heads off.
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That the man who is making the
approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole
deportment shouts at the
new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no
axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured --
these are the conditions we have found most effective.
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We feel, after many years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.
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Could we still say the whole thing was nothing but a mass of electrons, created out of nothing, meaning nothing, whirling on to a destiny of
nothingness?
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We urge you to try our program, for nothing will be so helpful to your husband as the radically changed attitude toward him which God will show you how to have.
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We are delighted with this dependence; our main hope is that nothing will ever cut
off the supply of current.
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Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.
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Practical experience
shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics.
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We are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing worth while can be accomplished until we do
so, never trying to tell him what he should do.
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Nothing would fix me.
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Nothing would please us so much as to write a book which would contain no basis for contention or argument.
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