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saving principle. Psychiatrists and psychologists point out the deep need every human being has for practical insight and knowledge of his own personality flaws and for a discussion of them with an understanding and trustworthy person. So far as alcoholics are concerned, A.A. would go even further. Most of us would declare that without a fearless admission of our defects to another human being we could not stay sober. It seems plain that the grace of God will not enter to expel our destructive obsessions until we are willing to try this.
There was always that mysterious barrier we could neither surmount nor understand.
It did let us act extemporaneously.
Blurt out
vital
Absolutely necessary
No defect can be corrected unless we clearly see what it is.
that we lacked honesty and tolerance,
Numerous twice as great
rationalization
Justifiy
arrant
Complete nonsense
we are to confide. Here we ought to take much care, remembering that prudence is a virtue which carries a high rating.
Care and thought for the future
This individual may be entirely outside of A.A.—for example,
clergyman or your doctor.
Provided you hold back nothing,
he is scorned as a braggart, nor so greedy that he is labeled a thief.
No one wants to be agonized by the chronic pain of envy or to be paralyzed by sloth. Of course, most human beings don’t suffer these defects at these rock-bottom levels.
Lazybones
“taking our comfort.”
envy.
procrastination,
Modest VEIW of ones importance
to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for itself, takes most of us a long, long time.
Myself
Character-building through suffering might be all right for saints, but it certainly didn’t appeal to us.
saw we needn’t always be bludgeoned and beaten into humility.
been making unreasonable demands upon ourselves, upon others, and upon God.
It doesn’t make much sense when a real tosspot calls a kettle black.
A habitual drinker
remember that alcoholics are not the only ones bedeviled by sick emotions.
Inconsistent trouble
have to think of these people at all? These were some of the ways in which fear conspired with pride to hinder our making a list of all the people we had harmed.
Not confession list
action ought to be deferred,
“harm” in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people. If our tempers are consistently bad, we arouse anger in others. If we lie or cheat,
Deliberately inflicted
irritable, critical, impatient, and humorless.
direct amends
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courage, and
Care for the future.
contrast with those hangover mornings when we alternated between reviling ourselves and blaming the family (and everyone else) for our troubles.
Abusive or angrily insulted
We will want to rest on our laurels.
□ rest on one's laurels be so satisfied with what one has already achieved that one makes no further effort.
Let’s not talk prudence while practicing evasion.
answer; a prevaricating excuse:
there is no pat answer
Above all, we should try to be absolutely sure that we are not delaying because we are afraid.
😢 1now 2later 3never to harmed direct amends and apologize-living amends change my ways become honest-clear wreckage of past resentment
continuous look
real desire
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drinking or not.
live serenely today and tomorrow,
doesn’t mean we need to wander morbidly around in the past.
leave it behind us.
and we have made peace with ourselves,
Many A.A.’s go in for annual or semiannual housecleanings.
Staying sober is the greatest living amends.
spiritual axiom
ax·i·om n. a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true: the axiom that supply equals demand. axiom /ˈaksēəm/ I. noun 1. a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true • the axiom that supply equals demand. 2. [chiefly Mathematics] a statement or proposition on which an abstractly defined structure is based. – origin late 15th cent.: from French axiome or Latin axioma, from Greek axiōma ‘what is thought fitting,’ from axios ‘worthy.’
“justifiable” anger?
jus·ti·fi·a·ble adj. able to be shown to be right or reasonable; defensible: it is not financially justifiable; their justifiable fears.
