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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Though our decision was a
vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us.
2.
Absence of coercion works because unless each A.A.
follows suggested Steps to recovery, he signs his own death warrant.
3.
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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We know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. unless he has first accepted his devastating
weakness and all its consequences.
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No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme,
doesn't care for this prospect -- unless he has to do
these things in order to stay alive himself.
10.
The family may object to
this, but unless he is in a dangerous physical condition, it is better to
risk it.
11.
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions:
that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary
cause of his drinking and
his failure at life; that
unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of
the worst of these defects,
both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty
foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
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Alone now, he reflects that he may not be able to stay sober, or even alive, unless he passes on to other alcoholics what was so freely given him.
15.
Unless he took some drinks, he might not have the courage to scrape an acquaintance and would have a lonely week-end.
16.
Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay
sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.
17.
Following his physical
rehabilitation, he had a talk with me in which he frankly
stated he thought the treatment a waste of effort, unless I could assure him, which no one ever had, that in the future he would have the "will power" to resist the impulse to drink.
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Doctors are rightly loath to tell alcoholic patients the whole story unless it will serve some good purpose.
20.
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.
21.
Unless one's family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them.
22.
So we think that unless some good and useful purpose is to be served, past occurrences should not
be discussed.
23.
If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor
that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or
dangerous.
24.
This means trouble, unless the family watches for these tendencies in each other and comes to a friendly agreement about
them.
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26.
The moment this Twelfth Step work forms a group, another discovery is made -- that most individuals cannot recover unless there is a group.
27.
Unless there is approximate conformity
to A.A.'s Twelve Traditions, the group, too,
can deteriorate and die.
28.
Unless they actually need protection from their father, it is best not to take sides in any argument he has with them while drinking.
29.
They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they
can again experience the
sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks -- drinks which they see others taking with impunity.
30.
Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required
just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy.
31.
The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom.
32.
This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
33.
That was great news to us, for
we had assumed we could not make use of spiritual principles
unless we accepted many things on faith which seemed difficult to believe.
34.
Another principle we observe carefully is that
we do not relate intimate
experiences of another
person unless we are sure he would approve.
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It is the great paradox of
A.A. that we know we can seldom keep the precious gift of sobriety unless we give it away.
38.
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