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The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles.
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When dealing with such a person, you had better use everyday language to describe spiritual principles.
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To those having religious
training, such a list would set forth serious violations of moral principles.
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His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by people in authority; they result from his personal disobedience to spiritual principles.
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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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It is hoped that this volume
will afford all who read it a close-up view of the principles and forces which have made Alcoholics Anonymous what it is.
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Here was something rare in the world -- a society which said it wished to publicize its principles and its work, but not its individual members.
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All of the Twelve Steps require sustained and personal exertion to conform to their principles and
so, we trust, to God's will.
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Twelve -- Anonymity is
the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
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Tradition Twelve -- "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of
all our traditions, ever
reminding us to place
principles before personalities."
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"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of
all our traditions, ever
reminding us to place
principles before personalities."
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... principles before
personalities; that we are actually ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.566
It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities;
that we are actually to practice a genuine humility.
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It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities;
that we are actually to practice a genuine humility.
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It presents an explicit
view of the principles by which
A.A. members recover and by which their Society functions.
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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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As we discovered the principles by which the individual alcoholic
could live, so we had to evolve principles by which the A.A. groups and A.A. as a whole could survive and function effectively.
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One more suggestion: Whether the family has spiritual convictions or not, they may do well to examine the principles by which the alcoholic
member is trying to live.
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As we discovered the principles by which the individual alcoholic
could live, so we had to evolve principles by which the A.A. groups and A.A. as a whole could survive and function effectively.
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So we of A.A. do obey spiritual principles, first because we must, and ultimately because we love the kind of life such obedience brings.
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Though none of these principles had the force of rules or laws, they had become so widely accepted by 1950 that they were
confirmed by our first International Conference held at Cleveland.
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How can a set of traditional principles,
having no legal force at all, hold the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous in
unity and effectiveness?
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My friend had emphasized
the absolute necessity
of demonstrating these principles in all my affairs.
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12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in
all our affairs.
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Step Twelve -- "Having had a
spiritual awakening as
the result of these steps, we
tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and
to practice these principles
in all our affairs."
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"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in
all our affairs."
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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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As our husbands began to apply spiritual principles in their lives, we began to see the desirability of doing so
too.
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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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A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective
homes, occupations and
affairs.
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The basic principles of A.A., as they are known today, were borrowed mainly from the fields of religion and medicine, though some ideas upon which success finally depended were the result of noting the behavior and needs of the Fellowship itself.
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We hope that the collective spiritual experience of the A.A. pioneers captured in these
pages continues to help alcoholics and friends of A.A. understand the principles of
our program.
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(*) The fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups was formed about thirteen years after this chapter was written. Though it is entirely separate from Alcoholics Anonymous, it
uses the general principles of the A.A. program as a guide for husbands, wives, relatives, friends and others close to alcoholics. The foregoing pages (though addressed only to wives) indicate the problems such people may face. Alateen, for teen-aged children of alcoholics, is a part of Al-Anon.
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The basic principles of the A.A. program, it appears, hold good for individuals with many different lifestyles, just as the program has brought recovery to those of many different nationalities.
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A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced
as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.
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Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles. The group must survive or the individual
will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.
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Should they accept and practice spiritual principles, there is a much better chance that the head of the family will recover.
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They can hardly fail to approve these simple principles, though the head of the house still fails somewhat in practicing
them.
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As we had once struggled
and prayed for individual recovery, just so earnestly did we commence to quest for the
principles through which A.A. itself might survive.
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... principles to
help ensure that various elements ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
Written by co-founder Bill W. in 1962, the Twelve Concepts for World Service provide a group of related principles to help ensure that various elements of A.A.'s service structure remain responsive and responsible to those they
serve.
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That was great news to us, for
we had assumed we could not make use of spiritual principles unless we accepted many things on faith which seemed difficult to believe.
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If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the principles we
have been discussing.
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Unless one's family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them.
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Although these reparations take innumerable forms, there
are some general principles
which we find guiding.
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But a few did, and when these laid hold of A.A. principles with all the fervor with which the drowning seize life preservers, they almost invariably got well.
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We saw that the group, exactly like the individual, must eventually conform to whatever tested principles would guarantee survival.
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