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We shall bring to the task our combined experience and knowledge.
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down on his head by a senseless series of sprees.
Surrender to the truth be brutally honest with the steps GOD Experience
mind,
philosophy
headache,
h...
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The fact is that most alcoholics, for some reason yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink.
his hand on a hot stove.
Joe and charlie
“It won’t burn me this time, so here’s how!
Unbelievably comfortable to you should not go outside
Or perhaps he doesn’t think at all.
supplanted
Replaced and pushed aside
beyond human aid,
and unless locked up, may die or to permanently insane.
le...
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I am legion we are many
God,
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Good orderly directions Gang/group of drunks Greatful of Diseases
So many want to stop b...
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There is a s...
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self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings
Steps
consummation.
Complete final
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rocketed into a
fourth dimension
Analogous to linear
This we did because we honestly wanted to, and were willing to make the effort.
consulted the best known American psychiatrists. Then he had gone to Europe, placing himself in the care of a celebrated physician (the psychiatrist, Dr. Jung) who prescribed for him. Though experience had made him skeptical, he finished his
Joe and Charlie tapes digital not an atheist
More baffling still, he could give himself no satisfactory explanation for his fall.
Why was this?
utterly hopeless;
Soul DTs opinion?
He does not need a bodyguard nor is he confined.
provided he remains willing to maintain a certain simple attitude.
chronic alcoholic.
vital spiritual
occurrences are phenomena.
vital spiritual experience.
STOPPED 4/1/2020
The distinguished American psychologist, William James, in his book “Varieties of Religious Experience,” indicates a multitude of ways in which men have discovered God.
Surprisingly enough, we find such convictions no great obstacle to a spiritual experience.
Further on, clear-cut directions are given showing how we recovered. These are followed by three dozen personal experiences.
These give a fair cross section of our membership and a clear-cut idea of what has actually happened in their lives.
women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, “Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing.
admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows.
We learned that we had to fully concede to our
1st. Step
innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.
pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization.
We are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones.
We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic. Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn’t done so yet.
self-deception
themselves exceptions to the rule,
