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Simply because it is impossible to explain what
we see, feel, direct, and use, without a reasonable assumption as a starting
point.
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Then they got the point.
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Even then the best of us will discover to our dismay that there is always a
sticking point, a point at which we say, "No, I can't give this up yet."
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We've repeatedly strained the patience of
our best friends to a snapping point, and have brought out the very worst in those who didn't think much of us to begin with.
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I was self conscious and ill at ease most of the time, my health was at the breaking point, and I was thoroughly miserable.
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When they drive us blindly,
or we willfully demand
that they supply us with more
satisfactions or pleasures than are possible or due us, that is the
point at which we depart from
the degree of perfection
that God wishes for us here on earth.
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Even then the best of us will discover to our dismay that there is always a
sticking point, a point at which we say, "No, I can't give this up yet."
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But my friend sat before me, and he made the point-blank declaration that God had done for him what he could not do for himself.
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Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.
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A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we
really wanted, rather than as something we
must have.
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At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a
state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail.
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"I think that psychologically speaking there is a point of advantage in the approach
that is being made in this movement that cannot be duplicated.
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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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Friends who have reasoned
with him after a spree which
has brought him to the point
of divorce or bankruptcy are mystified
when he walks directly into
a saloon.
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Post-war disillusionment, ever more serious alcoholism, impending mental and physical collapse, brought him to the
point of self-destruction.
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We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn't apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view.
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We naturally congratulate ourselves
on what later proves to be a
far too easy and superficial point of view.
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In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application
of these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear.
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Each individual, in the personal stories, describes in his own language and from his own point of view the way he established his relationship with God.
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Neither does A.A. take any particular medical point of view, though we cooperate widely with the men of medicine as well as with the men of religion.
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But point out that we alcoholics have much in common and that you would like,
in any case, to be friendly.
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Psychiatrists and psychologists point out the deep need every human being has for practical insight and knowledge of his own personality flaws and for a
discussion of them with an understanding and trustworthy person.
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But all who are in the least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is plenty wrong with us alcoholics about which plenty will have to be done if we are to expect sobriety, progress, and any real ability to cope with life.
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But if no such opportunity presents itself, at some point we will want to summon all our courage, head straight for the person concerned, and lay our cards on the table.
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This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has
been revealed to us out of bitter experience.
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Your husband will be the first to say it was your devotion and care which brought him to the point where
he could have a spiritual experience.
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It was obviously necessary to raise the bottom the rest of us had hit to the point where it would hit them.
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Edward Dowling, S.J.,(*) of the Queen's Work staff, says, "Alcoholics Anonymous is natural; it is
natural at the point where nature comes closest to the supernatural, namely in
humiliations and in consequent humility.
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As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our will power.
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No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.
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