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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.
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If that degree of humility
could enable us to find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly have.
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It resulted in more favorable publicity of Alcoholics Anonymous
than could possibly have been obtained through all the arts and abilities of A.A.'s best press agents.
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At such moments we forget that alcoholism is
an illness over which we
could not possibly have had any
power.
8.
If he sticks to the idea that
he can still control his drinking, tell him that possibly he can -- if he is not too alcoholic.
9.
If all those rules had been in
effect everywhere, nobody could have possibly joined A.A. at all, so great was the sum of our anxiety and fear.
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If we lean too heavily on people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human, too,
and cannot possibly meet our incessant demands.
13.
"How," they ask, "can such a crowd of anarchists function at all? How can they possibly place their common welfare first? What in Heaven's name holds them together?"
14.
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.
15.
How can we possibly summon the
resolution and the willingness to get rid of such overwhelming compulsions and desires?
16.
Possibly today will see a continuation of a serious and as yet unresolved problem left over from yesterday.
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Possibly, too, we were still handicapped by many liabilities, great and small, we never knew we had.
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