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2.
To the precise extent that
we permit these, do we squander the hours that might
have been worth while.
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5.
If this presents difficulty, re-reading chapters two and three, where the alcoholic sickness is discussed at length might be
worth while.
6.
7.
If the book is read the moment the patient is able, while acutely depressed, realization of his condition may come to him.
8.
9.
It was soon apparent that
while alcoholics would spend lavishly on Twelfth Step cases, they had a terrific aversion to dropping money into a meeting-place hat for group purposes.
10.
While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied.
11.
While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never to go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied.
12.
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.
13.
14.
Unless they actually need protection from their father, it is best not to take sides in any argument he has with them
while drinking.
15.
While drinking, he accepted a sum of money from a bitterly-hated business rival, giving him no receipt for it.
16.
17.
While grateful that he drinks no more, they may not like the idea that God has accomplished the miracle
where they failed.
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21.
Many years ago one of the leading contributors to
this book came under our care in this hospital and while here he acquired some ideas which he put into practical application
at once.
22.
This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor's telling him that while his religious convictions
were very good, in his case they did not spell the necessary vital spiritual experience.
23.
Our friends have counseled chucking the men and we have done so with finality, only to be back in a
little while hoping, always hoping.
24.
While I lay in the hospital the thought came that there were thousands
of hopeless alcoholics
who might be glad to have what had been so freely given me.
25.
26.
But as he calmed down, he began to listen while I tried to show him that humility was the
main key to sobriety.
27.
But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes
annihilation of all the things worth while in life.
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If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted
and encouraged this movement.
33.
While on the subject of confidence, can you adopt
the attitude that so far as
you are concerned this will
be a strictly personal
matter, that his alcoholic derelictions, the treatment about to be undertaken, will never be discussed without his consent?
34.
While our literature has
preserved the integrity of the A.A. message, sweeping changes in society as a whole are reflected in new customs and practices within the Fellowship.
35.
Unreasonable fear that
our instincts will not be
satisfied drives us to covet the possessions of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are
threatened, to be envious when the ambitions
of others seem to be realized while ours are not.
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38.
And even while staying within conventional bounds, many people have to admit that their imaginary sex excursions are apt to be all dressed up as dreams of romance.
39.
We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink, as he may do for
months or years, he reacts much like other men.
40.
While the comment or advice of others may be by no means infallible, it is likely to
be far more specific than any direct guidance we may receive while we are still so inexperienced in
establishing contact
with a Power greater than ourselves.
41.
While the internal difficulties of our adolescent period were being ironed out, public acceptance of A.A. grew by leaps and bounds.
42.
43.
While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is
equally necessary that
we extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties that we can.
44.
45.
He may tell mother, who has
been religious all her life, that she doesn't know what
it's all about, and that she had better get his brand of spirituality while there is
yet time.
46.
The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they
cannot after a time differentiate the true
from the false.
47.
For a while they would be their old sweet selves, only to dash the new structure of affection to pieces once more.
48.
But while this was a humiliating experience, it didn't necessarily mean that we had
yet acquired much actual humility.
49.
Arriving home, I found Lois cooking as usual, while three drunks looked hungrily on from the kitchen
door.
50.
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.
51.
Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some millennium of
their own specification.
52.
53.
While the comment or advice of others may be by no means infallible, it is likely to
be far more specific than any direct guidance we may receive while we are still so inexperienced in
establishing contact
with a Power greater than ourselves.
54.
Or anger and hurt pride might be the smoke screen under which we were hiding some of our defects
while we blamed others for them.
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56.
While we may be quite willing to reveal the very worst, we must be sure to remember that we cannot buy our
own peace of mind at the expense of others.
57.
So we decided that while we
still had some flaws of character that we could not yet
relinquish, we ought nevertheless to quit our stubborn, rebellious hanging on to them.
58.
59.
But we soon discovered
that while we weren't alone any more in a social sense, we still suffered many of the old pangs of anxious apartness.
60.
Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us.
61.
While you need not discuss your husband at length, you can quietly let your friends know the nature of his illness.
62.
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