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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from
the very start.
2.
If he feels free to discuss his problems with
you, if he knows you understand and will not be upset by anything he wishes to say, he will probably be off to a fast start.
3.
Never once in my life have I had a headache,
which fact leads me to believe that I was an alcoholic almost from the
start.
4.
In imagination the gleaming center was to go up several
stories more, but three would do for a start.
5.
But be sure you are on solid spiritual ground before you start and that your motive in going is thoroughly good.
6.
Some would start at the top and
come through to the bottom, becoming club members; others started in the club, pitched a binge, were hospitalized,
then graduated to education on the third floor.
7.
The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might
start drinking again.
8.
He saw that he had to place the
outcome in God's hands or he would soon start drinking again, and all would be lost anyhow.
9.
All these, and many others,
have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving.
10.
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.
11.
12.
13.
But if a willing start is made, then the great advantages of doing this will so quickly reveal themselves that the
pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.
14.
15.
16.
This fourth edition of "Alcoholics Anonymous" came off press in November 2001, at the start of a new millennium.
17.
A second small group promptly took shape at New York, to be followed in 1937 with the start of a third at Cleveland.
18.
He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may or
may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of
his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.
19.
Of course the sponsor points out that our friend's life is still unmanageable even though he is sober, that after all, only a bare start on A.A.'s program has been made.
20.
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.
21.
22.
If we are now about to ask forgiveness for ourselves, why shouldn't we
start out by forgiving them, one and all?
23.
24.
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him.
25.
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