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Of what is he thinking?
2.
They flatly declare that
since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves,
to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a
revolutionary change
in their way of living and
thinking.
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This may hang on for months,
long after their mother has accepted dad's new way
of living and thinking.
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We know what you are thinking.
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Since we were brighter than most folks (so we thought), the spoils of victory would be ours for the thinking.
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Either we were shy, and dared not draw near others, or we were apt to be noisy good fellows craving attention and companionship, but never
getting it -- at least to
our way of thinking.
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The second difficulty is
this: what comes to us alone
may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking.
11.
The prospective partners need to be solid A.A.'s and long enough acquainted to know that their
compatibility at spiritual, mental, and emotional levels is a fact and not wishful thinking.
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But when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed
them with another, and have become willing to have them removed, our thinking about humility commences to have
a wider meaning.
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If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed
in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we
have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
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Now about health: A body badly burned by alcohol does not often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling.
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He may have forgotten the possibility that his own wishful thinking and the human tendency to rationalize have distorted his so-called guidance.
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If your husband is a drinker, you probably worry over what other people are thinking and you hate to meet your friends.
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Can it be appreciated that he has been a victim of crooked thinking, directly caused by the action of alcohol on his brain?
24.
What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic
who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of
the first drink?
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Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it
be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
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To us it is not far-fetched,
for this kind of thinking has
been characteristic of every single one of us.
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Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and constantly thinking how they
might present their discovery to some newcomer.
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Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
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When this sort of thinking is fully established in an individual with alcoholic tendencies, he
has probably placed himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go
permanently insane.
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He had been thinking it over.
33.
More often, though, we had met up with some major calamity, and to our way of
thinking lost out because God deserted us.
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You may be afraid your husband will lose his position; you are
thinking of the disgrace and
hard times which will befall you and the children.
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Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.
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Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not
to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we threw up our hands in doubt and said, "We don't know."
41.
We read wordy books and indulge in windy arguments, thinking we believe this universe needs no God to explain it.
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Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when enchanted by a starlit night, "Who, then, made all this?"
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Nevertheless, we find
that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration.
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