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Even then the best of us will discover to our dismay that there is always a
sticking point, a point at which we say, "No, I can't give this up yet."
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But he is yet a long way from making good to the wife or parents whom for years he has
so shockingly treated.
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But while this was a humiliating experience, it didn't necessarily mean that we had
yet acquired much actual humility.
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Yet all reasons for not drinking were easily pushed aside in favor of the foolish idea that he could take whiskey if only he mixed it
with milk!
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Perhaps we shall be obliged in some cases still to say, "This I cannot give up yet...," but we should not say to ourselves, "This I will never give up!"
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Yet can we?
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Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience, has
stepped over the threshold of that home into freedom.
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But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect.
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Among us are wives, relatives and friends whose problem has been solved, as well as some who have
not yet found a happy solution.
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Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as
yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
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The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can
A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"
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Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles.
The group must survive or the individual
will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.
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Yet, he is alcoholic.
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You have been starving for his companionship, yet he spends long hours helping other men and their families.
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Yet if A.A.'s experience means anything at all, this is not only unwise, but is actually a perilous resolve.
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Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when
enchanted by a starlit
night, "Who, then, made all
this?"
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Yet it is only a step.
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Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as
yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
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Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression
that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in the
nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals.
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Yet let him drink for a day, and he frequently becomes disgustingly, and even dangerously anti-social.
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Yet no alcoholic, soberly analyzing his destructive behavior, whether the destruction
fell on the dining-room furniture or his own moral fiber, can claim "soundness of mind" for himself.
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There would be real danger
should we commence to call
some groups "wet," others "dry," still others "Republican" or "Communist," and yet others "Catholic" or "Protestant."
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And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not.
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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.
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Can we steadfastly content ourselves with the
humbler, yet sometimes more durable, satisfactions
when the brighter, more glittering achievements are denied
us?
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We could not prove life in the
sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.
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They see liberty verging on license, yet they recognize at once that A.A. has an irresistible strength
of purpose and action.
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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.
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Possibly today will see a continuation of a serious and as yet unresolved problem left over from yesterday.
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What he has received is a free gift, and yet usually, at least in some small part, he has made himself ready to receive it.
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The story he told is most instructive, for here was a
chap absolutely convinced he had to stop drinking, who had no excuse for drinking, who exhibited splendid judgment and determination in all his other concerns, yet was flat on his back nevertheless.
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Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted.
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Yet we find that's what we have
to be.
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Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world,
people who rose above their problems.
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Or we may just procrastinate, telling
ourselves the time is not
yet, when in reality we have
already passed up many a fine
chance to right a serious wrong.
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