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If not irritable, he may seem dull and boring, not gay and affectionate as the family would like him to be.
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To a person who has had experience with an alcoholic, this may seem like tempting Providence, but it isn't.
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Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.
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We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we had
a feeling of uselessness, we were full of
fear, we were unhappy, we
couldn't seem to be of real help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
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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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We may often pass through Twelfth Step experiences where we will seem to be temporarily off the beam.
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And the facts seem to be these:
The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually
are.
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These stem from causes which
sometimes seem to be within us, and at other times to come from without.
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So when A.A. suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can
do.
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Though the earning power of most A.A.'s is relatively high, we have some
members who never seem to get on their feet moneywise, and still others who encounter heavy financial reverses.
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Or we may encounter the reverse situation, in which
we are highly elated because we seem to have been successful.
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Our basic troubles are the
same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles
in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith.
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On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand
-- once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of
ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only
effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.
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But he will be curious to learn why his own convictions have not worked and why yours seem to work so well.
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This resolution I kept steadfastly for the next forty years, except when circumstances made it
seem unwise to absent myself.
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