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alcoholics

Jittery

August 25, 2009

“We believe and hope this book contains
all you will need to begin.
We know what you are thinking.
You are saying to yourself:
‘I‘m jittery and alone.  I couldn‘t do that.‘
But you can.
You forget that you have just now tapped
a source of power much greater than yourself.
To duplicate, with such [...]

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Way of Life

July 27, 2009

“The AA way of life is the way we always
should have tried to live.
‘Grant us the serenity to accept the things
we cannot change,
courage to change the things we can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.‘
These thoughts become part of our daily lives.
They are not ideas of resignation
but [...]

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Prayer

April 24, 2009

“Common sense would thus become uncommon sense.
I was to sit quietly when in doubt,
asking only for direction and strength
to meet my problems as He would have me.
Never was I to pray for myself,
except as my requests bore on my
usefulness to others.
Then only might I expect to receive.
But that would be in great measure.”

Bill W., Alcoholics [...]

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Meetings

March 10, 2009

“We have also found that going to meetings is not something to
be done only when we feel the temptation to drink.  We often
get more good from the meetings by attending them when we
feel fine and haven’t so much as thought of drinking. And
even a meeting which is not totally, instantly satisfying, [...]

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