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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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What with our ultra-modern standards, our scientific approach to everything, we are perhaps
not well equipped to apply the powers of good that lie outside our synthetic knowledge.
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But the actual or potential alcoholic, with
hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.
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We cannot declare A.A. such a closed corporation that we keep our
knowledge and experience
top secret.
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In all these instances, and more, it was claimed that A.A. knowledge and experience were being sold for money, hence these people, too, were professionals.
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Much has already been said about receiving strength, inspiration,
and direction from Him who has all knowledge and power.
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To me, this incident illustrates lack of understanding as to what really ails the alcoholic, and lack of knowledge as to what part employers might profitably take in salvaging their sick employees.
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Admit that he probably knows more about it than you do,
but call to his attention
the fact that however deep his
faith and knowledge, he could
not have applied it or he would not drink.
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He was positive that this humiliating experience, plus the knowledge he had acquired, would
keep him sober the rest of his life.
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But when we had declared that our Fellowship couldn't hire service workers nor could any A.A. member carry our knowledge into other fields, we were taking the counsel of fear, fear which today has been largely dispelled in the light of experience.
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Of course, there couldn't be the slightest objection if such an association hired an A.A. member solely because of his public relations ability and his
knowledge of alcoholism.
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Psychiatrists and psychologists point out the deep need every human being has for practical insight and knowledge of his own personality flaws and for a
discussion of them with an understanding and trustworthy person.
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11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our
conscious contact with
God as we understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of
His will for us and the power
to carry that out.
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Step Eleven -- "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying
only for knowledge of His will
for us and the power to carry
that out."
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"Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying
only for knowledge of His will
for us and the power to carry
that out."
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And we think that the whole range of our needs is well defined by that part of Step Eleven which says: "...knowledge of His will for us and the
power to carry that out."
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First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have
been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop
the best possible relations with every human being we know.
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We have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up
and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with all who can use it.
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At that time I was not aware of
the almost unlimited supply the government made it possible for us doctors to obtain, neither had I any knowledge of the bootlegger who
soon appeared on the horizon.
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Above all, he believed he
had acquired such a profound knowledge of the inner workings of his mind and its hidden springs that relapse was unthinkable.
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Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
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Knowledge was all-powerful.
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