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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions
were not the purpose of living.
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We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.
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Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living.
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We knew we would have to quit
the deadly business of
living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty
confide these to God and another human being.
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They flatly declare that
since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves,
to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a
revolutionary change
in their way of living and thinking.
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This may hang on for months,
long after their mother has accepted dad's new way
of living and thinking.
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By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we would
need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
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Can we love the whole pattern of living as eagerly as we do the small segment of it we discover
when we try to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
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If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed
in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we
have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
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... Living Church,
observes editorially: "The basis of ...
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Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
The Episcopal magazine,
The Living Church, observes editorially:
"The basis of the technique of Alcoholics
Anonymous is the truly Christian principle that
a man cannot help himself except by helping others.
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If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever
our race, creed, or color are the children of a
living Creator with whom we
may form a relationship
upon simple and understandable terms as
soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.
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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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When your prospect has made
such reparation as he can
to his family, and has thoroughly explained to
them the new principles by
which he is living, he should proceed to put those principles into action at home.
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Of far more importance was the fact that
he was the first living human with whom I had ever talked, who knew what he was talking about in regard to alcoholism from actual experience.
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Perhaps your husband has
been living in that strange
world of alcoholism where
everything is distorted and exaggerated.
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I have since been brought into a way of living infinitely more satisfying and, I hope, more useful than the life I lived before.
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Without a searching and
fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.
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Understanding is the key
to right principles and
attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.
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But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been
living it.
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And at length our inventories become a regular part of everyday living, rather than something unusual or set apart.
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When we had taken the opposite tack and had insisted, like infants ourselves, that people protect and take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result had been equally unfortunate.
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Understanding is the key
to right principles and
attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.
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They experienced a few distressing failures,
but in those cases they made an effort to bring the man's family into a spiritual way of living, thus relieving much worry and suffering.
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But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way
of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather or foul.
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It is probably true that you
and your husband have been living too much alone, for drinking many times isolates the wife of an alcoholic.
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Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake.
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Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of
continual disturbance and frustration.
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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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He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the
hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and
that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
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My friend promised when
these things were done I would
enter upon a new relationship with my Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my problems.
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They are naturally incapable of grasping and
developing a manner of
living which demands rigorous honesty.
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A doctor said to us, "Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic.
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Such a roster of harms done others -- the kind that make daily living with us as practicing alcoholics difficult and
often unbearable -- could
be extended almost indefinitely.
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