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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of a
Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of
the Universe underlying the totality
of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps.
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If you have decided you want
what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it -- then you are
ready to take certain steps.
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Indeed, the attainment
of greater humility is
the foundation principle of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps.
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We know this because we see monotony, pain, and even calamity turned to good use by those who keep on trying to practice A.A.'s Twelve Steps.
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To make this increasingly possible
is the purpose of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door.
11.
In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application of
these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear.
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In fact, the 2002 General Service Conference discussed
this issue and it was unanimously recommended that: "The text
in the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, written by Bill W., remain as is, recognizing the Fellowship's feelings
that Bill's writing be retained as originally published."
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A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in
their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.
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(*) In adapted form, the
Steps are also used by Al-Anon Family Groups. Not a part of A.A., this worldwide fellowship consists of spouses and other relatives or friends of alcoholics (in A.A. or still drinking). Its headquarters address is 1600 Corporate Landing Pkwy, Virginia Beach, VA 23454-5617.
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... Steps are
principles for personal recovery.
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
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This present volume proposes to broaden and deepen the understanding
of the Twelve Steps as first written in the earlier work.
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All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go
contrary to our natural
desires . . . they all deflate our egos.
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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.
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We temporarily cease to
grow because we feel satisfied that there is
no need for all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps for us.
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A.A.'s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the Twelve Steps in our program.
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When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex, security, and society becomes the sole object of our lives, then pride steps in to justify our excesses.
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The wonderful energy it
releases and the eager action by which it carries our
message to the next suffering alcoholic and
which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon all our affairs is the payoff, the magnificent reality, of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and
actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.
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Then it is explained that other Steps of the A.A. program can be practiced with success only
when Step Three is given a determined and persistent trial.
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Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our daily lives so that we and those about us may find emotional sobriety.
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He has read this volume and says he is prepared to go through with the Twelve Steps of the program of recovery.
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All of the Twelve Steps require sustained and personal exertion to conform to their principles and so, we trust,
to God's will.
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Like all the remaining
Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for it
is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God -- or, if you like, a Higher Power -- into our lives.
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The Twelve Steps that summarize the program may
be called los Doce Pasos in one country, les Douze Etapes in another, but they trace exactly the same path to recovery that was blazed by
the earliest members of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Many people, nonalcoholics, report
that as a result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have been able to meet other difficulties of life.
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Our Twelve Steps to recovery are suggestions; the Twelve Traditions which guarantee A.A.'s unity contain not a single "Don't."
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Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant.
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Absence of coercion works because unless each A.A. follows suggested Steps to recovery, he signs his own death warrant.
51.
Had they fired me first, and
had they then taken steps to see that I was presented with
the solution contained
in this book, I might have returned to them six months later, a well man.
52.
In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application of
these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear.
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This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
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We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength.
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But as time passed we found that with the help of A.A.'s Twelve Steps we could lose those fears, no matter what our material prospects were.
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Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all
the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening.
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12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles
in all our affairs.
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Step Twelve -- "Having had a
spiritual awakening as
the result of these steps, we
tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and
to practice these principles in all our affairs."
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"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles
in all our affairs."
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