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Pride

December 15, 2009

We scarcely need to be reminded that excessive guilt
or rebellion leads to spiritual poverty.
But it was a very long time before we knew
we could go even more broke on spiritual pride.
When we early AAs got our first glimmer
of how spiritually pride full we could be,
we coined this expression:
“Don’t try to get too damned good by [...]

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Fear

September 19, 2009

“We of AA now find ourselves in a world characterized
by destructive fears as never before in history.
But in it we nevertheless see great areas of faith
and tremendous aspirations toward justice and brotherhood.
Yet no prophet can presume to say whether the world outcome
will be blazing destruction or the beginning,
under God’s [...]

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Destiny

September 12, 2009

“Yes, we are again citizens of the world.
It is a distraught world, very tired, very uncertain.
It has worshipped its own self-sufficiency —
and that has failed.
We AA‘s are a people who once did that very thing.
That philosophy failed us too.
So perhaps, here and there, our example of recovery can help. [...]

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Fear

August 21, 2009

“The practice of AA‘s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
in our personal lives also brought incredible releases
from fear of every description,
despite the wide prevalence of formidable personal problems.
When fear did persist, we knew it for what it was,
and under God‘s grace we became able to handle it.
We began to see [...]

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The Gift

July 26, 2009

“When asked, ‘Are there any conditions?‘
we joyfully reply, ‘No, not a one.‘
When skeptically he comes back saying,
‘But certainly there must be things
that I have to do and believe,‘ we quickly answer,
‘In Alcoholics Anonymous there are no musts.‘
Cynically, perhaps, he then inquires,
‘What is all this going to cost me?‘ [...]

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Love

July 19, 2009

“For me, AA is a synthesis of all the philosophy
I‘ve ever read,
all of the positive, good philosophy,
all of it based on love.
I have seen that there is only one law,
the law of love,
and there are only two sins;
the first is to interfere with the growth
of another human [...]

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Release

April 4, 2009

“Who can render an account of all the miseries that have once been ours, and who can estimate the release and joy that the later years have brought to us? Who could possibly tell the vast consequences of what God’s work through AA had already set in motion?
“Bill W., Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pp. [...]

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