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		<title>Defiance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8216;As psychiatrists have often observed, defiance is the outstanding characteristic of many an alcoholic. When we encountered AA, the fallacy of our defiance was revealed. At no time had we asked what God&#8217;s will was for us; instead we had been telling Him what it ought to be. No man, we saw, could believe in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language of the Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As we better use the &#8216;language of the heart,&#8217; our communications grow apace: already we find ourselves in a safe passage through all those barriers of distance and language, of social distinctions, nationality and creed, that so divide the world of our time.&#8221; Bill W., AA Today, published on the occasion of AA&#8217;s twenty-fifth anniversary. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intoxication</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As newcomers, many of us have indulged in spiritual intoxication. Like a prospector, belt drawn in over the last ounce of food, we saw our pick strike gold. Joy at our release from a lifetime of frustration knew no bounds. The newcomer feels he has struck something better than gold. He may not see at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection. Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives. (b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism. (c) That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Let us never fear needed change. Certainly we have to discriminate between changes for worse and changes for better. But once a need becomes clearly apparent in an individual, in a group, or in AA as a whole, it has long since been found out that we cannot stand still and look the other way.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We of AA are apt sometimes to brag of the virtues of our fellowship. Let us remember that none of these are earned virtues. We have been forced into them, to begin with, by the cruel lash of John Barleycorn. We have adopted these attitudes, these practices, this structure, not at first because we wished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humility</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our AA program is spiritually centered. Most of us have found enough humility to believe in and depend upon God. We have found that humility by facing the fact that alcoholism is a fatal malady over which we are individually powerless.&#8221; Bill W., Box 1980: The AA Grapevine, September 1945 The Language of the Heart, [...]]]></description>
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