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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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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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Each needed to consider the others, and in
abiding faith they knew they must find their real strength.
5.
When they talked of a God personal to me, who was love,
superhuman strength and direction, I became irritated and my mind snapped shut against such a theory.
6.
Reminding ourselves
that we have decided to go to
any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be
given strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.
7.
Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and hope.
8.
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
9.
A.A. Preamble -- Alcoholics Anonymous is
a fellowship of people
who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their
common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
10.
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence, for just that
long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.
11.
These were the new attitudes
that finally brought many of us an inner strength and peace that could not be
deeply shaken by the shortcomings of others or
by any calamity not of our own making.
12.
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the
most important meaning
of it is that he has now become
able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.
13.
We all need the light of God's reality, the nourishment of His strength,
and the atmosphere of His grace.
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Strength from weakness.
16.
Much has already been said about receiving strength, inspiration, and direction from Him who has all knowledge and power.
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They see liberty verging on license, yet they recognize at once that A.A. has an irresistible strength of purpose and action.
19.
Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of survival.
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To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and
for the strength to do the right thing.
22.
I was to sit quietly when in
doubt, asking only for direction and strength to meet my problems as He would
have me.
23.
The principle that we shall find no
enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered.
24.
In a very real sense he has been transformed, because he
has laid hold of a source of strength which, in one way or another, he had hitherto denied himself.
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