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Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we
are going to be inspired at
all times.
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During these years, I drank as much as my purse permitted, still without paying too great a penalty, although I was beginning to have morning
"jitters" at times.
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Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary
answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got
sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about
the job she was doing and how
she was overpaid, then such
a person could surely not be
called a professional
A.A.
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Save for a few brief moments of temptation the thought of
drink has never returned; and at such times a great revulsion has risen up in him.
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More experienced people, of course, in all times and places have practiced unsparing self-survey and criticism.
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All of us saw, for example,
that we lacked honesty and
tolerance, that we were beset at times by attacks of self-pity or delusions of personal grandeur.
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There had been no real infidelity, for loyalty to
my wife, helped at times by extreme drunkenness, kept me out of those scrapes.
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The consideration of long-standing difficulties had better
be postponed, when possible, to times deliberately set aside for that purpose.
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We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy
will be done."
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A man so involved often feels very remorseful at times, especially if he is married to a loyal and courageous girl who has literally gone through hell for him.
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How many times have we heard well-intentioned people claim the guidance of God when it was all too plain that
they were sorely mistaken.
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Countless times, in as many cities and hamlets, we reenacted the
story of Eddie Rickenbacker and his courageous company when
their plane crashed in the
Pacific.
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By this time I was beginning to pay very dearly physically and, in hope of relief, voluntarily incarcerated myself at least a dozen times in one of the local sanitariums.
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The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are
used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism
has manifested itself among us in many different forms.
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It is probably true that you
and your husband have been living too much alone, for drinking many times isolates the wife of an alcoholic.
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In all times of emotional
disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done."
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He thought all alcoholics should constantly have chocolate available for
its quick energy value at times of fatigue.
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I would sometimes hide out in one of the clubs of which I was a member,
and had the habit at times of
registering at a hotel
under a fictitious name.
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Powerfully, blindly, many times subtly, they drive us, dominate us, and insist upon ruling our lives.
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All of us felt at times that we
were regaining control,
but such intervals -- usually brief -- were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization.
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They expect him to give them
the nice times they used to have before he drank so much, and to show his contrition for what
they suffered.
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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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These stem from causes which
sometimes seem to be within us, and at other times to come from without.
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As beginners in meditation, we might now reread this prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea.
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In our own times, we have seen millions die in political and economic wars often spurred by religious and racial difference.
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Many times we talk to a new man and watch his hope rise as we discuss his alcoholic problems and explain our fellowship.
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All of us, without exception, pass through times when we can pray only with the greatest exertion of will.
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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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Every doctor concerned would at times wish he could devote himself to his chosen field rather than work only with the group.
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