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After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic
run-around -- provided, of course, they are
willing to have a third party in the picture.
2.
We have run away.
3.
I hardly dared cross the street, lest I collapse and be run down by an early morning truck, for it was scarcely daylight.
4.
Very soon, though, his assumed authority to run everything begins to be shared with the first alcoholics he has helped.
5.
She can juggle charge accounts, manipulate the
food budget, spend her afternoons gambling, and run her husband into debt by irresponsibility, waste, and extravagance.
6.
The A.A., or indeed any man, who tries to run his life rigidly by this kind of prayer, by this self-serving demand of God for replies, is a particularly disconcerting individual.
7.
He will appreciate knowing you are not bothering your head about him,
that you are not suspicious nor are you trying to run his life so he will be shielded from temptation to drink.
8.
Who is more unpopular than
the oldtime A.A., full of wisdom, who moves to another area and tries to tell the group there how to run its business?
9.
Questioning directed
to this end might run like this: Looking at both past and present, what sex situations have caused me
anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression?
10.
11.
12.
The first requirement is
that we be convinced that any life run
on self-will can hardly be a success.
13.
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
14.
Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when
some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when
some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.
15.
They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so.
16.
We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves.
17.
18.
Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players in his own way.
19.
Where people had temporarily let us run their lives as though they were still children, we had felt very happy and secure ourselves.
20.
Whoever pays the piper is apt to call the tune, and if the A.A. Foundation obtained money from outside sources, its trustees might be tempted to run things without reference to the wishes of
A.A. as a whole.
21.
Still more important, murmurs are heard in the body politic, which swell into a loud cry: "Do these oldtimers think they can
run this group forever?
22.
They run to extremes.
23.
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.
24.
Alcoholics especially should be able to
see that instinct run wild in themselves is the underlying cause of their destructive drinking.
25.
This is the experience which has led us to the conclusion that
our group conscience, well-advised by its elders, will be in the long run wiser than any single leader.
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