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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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About the time of the beer experiment I was thrown in
with a crowd of people who attracted me because of
their seeming poise, health, and happiness.
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But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, the
character-building was
lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.
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At first many of these feel lonely, hurt, and left out as they witness so much domestic happiness about them.
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In the face of collapse and
despair, in the face of the
total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into them.
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We used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when
we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree
of stability, happiness and
usefulness which we should have sought ourselves.
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If they cannot have this kind of happiness, can A.A. offer them satisfactions
of similar worth and durability?
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The family may be possessed by the idea that future happiness can be based only upon forgetfulness of the past.
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Cling to the thought that,
in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you
have -- the key to life and happiness for others.
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In later life he finds that real happiness is not to be found in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-rater in the heartbreaking struggle
for money, romance, or self-importance.
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Is he not a victim of the delusion that he can wrest satisfaction and happiness
out of this world if he only manages well?
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I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a
way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.
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