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It was really a horrible nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.
2.
Therefore dependence,
as A.A. practices it, is
really a means of gaining true independence of the spirit.
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The emphasis on inventory is heavy only because a great many of us have never really acquired the habit of accurate self-appraisal.
6.
How could we be certain that we had made a true catalog of our defects and
had really admitted them, even to ourselves?
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To me, this incident illustrates lack of understanding as to what really ails the alcoholic, and lack of knowledge as to what part employers might profitably take in salvaging their sick employees.
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But if you really and truly want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely feel that you must have some help, we know that we have an answer for you.
10.
In this area it is startling to discover how
dependent we really are,
and how unconscious of that dependence.
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To those who have made progress in A.A., it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be.
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Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that
this universe originated in a cipher and
aimlessly rushes nowhere.
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When your mission is carefully explained, and
it is seen by the recipient
of your confidence how helpful he can really be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager.
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We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others.
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Some people are unable to stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically until they really clean house.
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Most alcoholics have to be pretty badly mangled before they really commence to solve their problems.
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Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all.
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Then Jack Alexander wrote a feature article in the Saturday Evening Post and placed such a compelling picture of A.A. before the general public that alcoholics in need of help really deluged us.
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If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care.
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Most of us must admit that we
have loved but a few; that we
have been quite indifferent to the many so
long as none of them gave us trouble; and as for the
remainder -- well, we have
really disliked or hated them.
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It works -- it really does.
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Once we have come into agreement with these ideas,
it is really easy to begin the practice of Step Three.
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Though in some cases we
cannot make restitution
at all, and in some cases action ought to be deferred, we should nevertheless make an accurate and really exhaustive survey of our past life as it has affected other people.
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His wife is one of those persons who really feels there is something rather sinful about these commodities, so she nagged, and her intolerance finally threw him into a fit of anger.
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I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most
impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all
sorts wiped out.
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He has been set on a path which
tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered.
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I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness
as he spoke of these things
just before he died; these recollections
welled up from the past.
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The fact was we really hadn't cleaned house so that the grace of God could enter us and expel the obsession.
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The Foundation was really
hard up just then; the groups weren't sending in enough for the support of the
office; we had been tossing
in all the book income and even that hadn't been enough.
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They grinned, which I didn't like so much, and then asked me if I thought myself alcoholic and if I
were really licked this time.
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We really love them.
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Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake.
52.
Sometimes these excuses
have a certain plausibility, but none of
them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic's drinking bout creates.
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If he says yes, does he really mean it, or down inside does he think he is fooling you, and
that after rest and treatment he will be able to get away with a few drinks now and then?
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"Still dubious, he demanded, 'Do you really mean the only reason you are here is to try and help me and to help yourself?'
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So it isn't surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary.
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Our present anxieties
and troubles, we cry, are caused by the behavior of other people -- people who really need a moral inventory.
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No beer or liquor was sold in the neighborhood, except at
the State liquor agency where perhaps one might procure a pint if he could convince the
agent that he really needed it.
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When a society composed
entirely of alcoholics
says it's going to pay its bills, that's really news.
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"This really rocked him.
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It is really saying to us that
we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we did
when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
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When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is
really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag
on it.
69.
Of alcoholics who came to
A.A. and really tried, 50% got
sober at once and remained that way; 25% sobered up after some relapses, and among the remainder, those who stayed on with A.A. showed improvement.
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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 sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we really want to punish.
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We doubt if many of them can do
it, because none will really want to stop, and hardly one of them, because of the peculiar mental twist already acquired, will find he can win out.
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With a proper display of honesty and morality, we'd
stand a better chance of getting what we
really wanted.
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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 first he goes along because he must, but later he discovers a way of life he really wants to live.
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Especially when he has before him a way to stop his drinking and abuse if he really wants to pay the price.
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But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been
living it.
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Without a searching and
fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.
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There are cases where our ancient enemy, rationalization, has stepped in and has justified conduct which was
really wrong.
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