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We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn't apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view.
3.
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We naturally congratulate ourselves
on what later proves to be a
far too easy and superficial point of view.
5.
The second printing of the
first edition added the appendix "Spiritual Experience";
in the second edition, the
appendices on A.A. Tradition, the "medical
view" and "religious view" of A.A., the Lasker Award and information on how to contact A.A. were added, and the appendix on the
Alcoholic Foundation
was discontinued.
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The second section of this
volume, though designed for A.A.'s membership, will give such inquirers an inside view of A.A. never before possible.
8.
The second printing of the
first edition added the appendix "Spiritual Experience";
in the second edition, the
appendices on A.A. Tradition, the "medical
view" and "religious view" of A.A., the Lasker Award and information on how to contact A.A. were added, and the appendix on the
Alcoholic Foundation
was discontinued.
9.
We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show
us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.
10.
11.
It is hoped that this volume
will afford all who read it a close-up view of the principles and forces which
have made Alcoholics Anonymous what it is.
12.
It presents an explicit
view of the principles by
which A.A. members recover and by which their Society functions.
13.
14.
In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application
of these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear.
15.
Each individual, in the personal stories, describes in his own language and from his own point of view the way he established his relationship with God.
16.
Neither does A.A. take any particular medical point of view, though we cooperate widely with the men of medicine as well as with the men of religion.
17.
18.
He and all like him who "view
with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or,
worse still, laughter.
19.
Then too, we view with much concern those A.A. treasuries which continue, beyond prudent reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated A.A.
purpose.
20.
Then, too, we view with much concern those A.A. treasuries which continue, beyond prudent reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated A.A.
purpose.
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