Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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Read between August 3, 2023 - May 21, 2024
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welter
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service.
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Not secure will fall
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allergy,damaging immune reaction to substance
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“last-gaspers”
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practicing A.A.’s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.
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A.A., and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation. Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded
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to conviction and as willing to listen as the dying can be. We stand ready to do anything which will lift the merciless obsession from us.
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My old sponsor would say,"I can't make you willing,even God can't make you willing if you refuse to be willing. If your a real alcoholic,it will probably be John Barleycorn that will do the job." I was eventually "beat into a state of reasonableness."
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Spiritual experience can help stay stopped safely.
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belligerent
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savage.
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philo...
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smarting
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majestically
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single
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god
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A power greater than myself it takes time and isn't quick but move on to chapter 5 to sponsee.
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circumstances,
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Twelve Steps are but suggestions.
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piecemeal
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really need is a truly open mind.
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prodigious
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scientific.
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infiltrate
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Power greater than myself,
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innumerable
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solution.
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They have tried the way of faith and the way of no faith.
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theological abstractions and religious duties,
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‘zero,’
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Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our brainpower alone.
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We saw that we had to reconsider or die.
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They helped us to get down to our right size.
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compatible, provided we placed humili...
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that, we received the gift of faith, a faith which works. This fa...
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the Beatitudes for the ‘begats.’
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This all meant, of course, that we had substituted negative for positive thinking.
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But finally, driven to A.A., we learned better.
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Him, too. Belief meant reliance, not defiance. In A.A.
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concluded that whatever price in humility we must pay, we would pay.”
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the quality of faith rather than its quantity.
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supposed we had humility when really we hadn’t.
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We had always said, “Grant me my wishes” instead of “Thy will be done.”