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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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When a few men in this city have found themselves, and have discovered the joy of helping others to face life again, there will be no stopping until everyone in that town has had his opportunity
to recover -- if he can and will.
2.
If he is not interested in your solution, if he expects you
to act only as a banker for his
financial difficulties or a nurse
for his sprees, you may have to drop him until he changes his mind.
3.
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake.
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He made up his mind that until he had been successful in business
and had retired, he would not touch another drop.
6.
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
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For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
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He clamors for this or that, claiming he cannot master alcohol until his material needs are cared for.
11.
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
12.
Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay
sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.
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One dramatic experience after another clinched this determination until it became our universal tradition.
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This worked nicely until my wife and I went to see Wallace Beery in "Tugboat Annie," after which the pant-leg and stocking racket were out!
18.
Husbands and wives have sometimes been obliged to
separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.
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Wait until repeated stumbling convinces him he must act, for the more you hurry him the longer his recovery may be delayed.
21.
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
22.
This went from bad to worse until sophomore spring when, after a prolonged period of drinking, I made up my mind that I could not complete
my course, so I packed my grip and went South to spend a month on a large farm owned by a friend of mine.
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24.
I think I must have been thoroughly scared by what
had happened, or by the doctor, or probably both, so that I did not touch a drink again until the country went dry.
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For we can neither think nor act to good purpose until the habit of self-restraint has become automatic.
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Nearly anyone could submit a good list of such defects as these, and few of us
would seriously think of
giving them up, at least until they cause us excessive misery.
28.
Some people are unable to stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically
until they really clean house.
29.
But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.
30.
Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so
long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical.
31.
It seems plain that the grace of God will not enter to expel our destructive obsessions until we are willing to try this.
32.
We are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing worth while can be accomplished until we do
so, never trying to tell him what he should do.
33.
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.
34.
Step One showed us an amazing paradox: We found that we were
totally unable to be rid of the alcohol obsession until we first admitted that we were powerless over it.
35.
Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn't belong.
36.
Simply we tell him that we will never get over drinking until we have done our utmost to straighten out the past.
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Some of us have tried to hold
on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely.
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