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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Between these lines, it is
easy to read our fear that large numbers of incoming people might break our anonymity wide open.
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This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
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Even more important, an empty club couldn't answer its telephone, but it was an
open invitation to a drunk on a binge who possessed a spare key.
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Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more.
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Time after time, my instructors held up to me the basic principle of all scientific progress: search and research, again and again, always with the open mind.
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True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance
that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him.
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Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be
on other questions.
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Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded to conviction and as willing
to listen as the dying can
be.
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If we would gain any real advantage in the use of this Step on problems other than alcohol, we shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness.
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The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we
found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly
better able to understand Him.
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Consequently, many groups began to hold meetings which were open to interested friends and the public, so
that the average citizen
could see for himself just what A.A. was all about.
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Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders in this fashion.
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Our eyes begin to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.
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Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more.
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Again I swayed dizzily before an open window, or the medicine cabinet where there
was poison, cursing myself for a weakling.
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To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to
see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance of
what we receive as we carry
A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
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