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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Our desires for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power, for romance, and for family satisfactions -- all these have to be tempered and redirected.
2.
Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its
satisfactions for us, too.
3.
Poverty will disappear, and there will be
such abundance that everybody can have all the security and personal satisfactions he desires.
4.
We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the
realities of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along.
5.
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.
6.
If they cannot have this kind of happiness, can A.A. offer them satisfactions of similar worth and durability?
7.
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.
8.
Instead of regarding the
satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and
function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.
9.
We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were not
the purpose of living.
10.
Can we steadfastly content ourselves with the
humbler, yet sometimes more durable, satisfactions when the
brighter, more glittering achievements are denied
us?
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