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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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They experienced a few distressing failures,
but in those cases they made an effort to bring the man's family into a spiritual way of living, thus relieving much worry and suffering.
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It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering.
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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.
6.
As the message of recovery has reached larger numbers of people, it has also touched the lives of a vastly greater variety of suffering alcoholics.
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We are unable, at certain
times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago.
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If hundreds of experiences have shown him
that one drink means another debacle with all its attendant suffering and humiliation, why is it he takes that one drink?
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Their common suffering as drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.
13.
As we redouble our efforts at control, and continue to fail, our suffering becomes acute and constant.
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If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness which
only a spiritual experience will conquer.
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It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from the pains of growing up.
17.
Character-building through suffering might be all
right for saints, but it certainly didn't appeal to
us.
18.
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism
as an illness, the social
stigma associated with
this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to
have been a great venture in
social pioneering which
forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."
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Why, he argued, should he lose the remainder of his business, only to bring still more suffering to his family by foolishly admitting his
plight to people from whom
he made his livelihood?
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He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and
that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
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Here was the threat of commitment, the loss of family and position, to say nothing of that intense mental and physical suffering which drinking always caused him.
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He feels a spiritual and
ethical compulsion, because hundreds may be
suffering within reach of his help.
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