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Spiritual Life

November 13, 2009

“The spiritual life is not a theory.
We have to live it.
Unless one‘s family expresses a desire to live upon
spiritual principles
we think we ought not to urge them.
We should not talk incessantly to them about spiritual matters.
They will change in time.
Our behavior will convince them more than our words.
We must remember that ten or [...]

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Compulsion

May 25, 2009

“It helped me a great deal to become convinced
that alcoholism was a disease,
not a moral issue;
that I had been drinking as a result of a compulsion,
even though I had not been aware
of the compulsion at the time;
and that sobriety was not a matter of willpower.
I was afraid to let go of what I had
in order [...]

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Resentment

February 28, 2009

Resentment is the “number one” offender.
It destroys more alcoholics than anything else.
From it stem all forms of spiritual disease,
for we have been not only mentally and physically ill,
we have been spiritually sick.
When the spiritual malady is overcome,
we straighten our mentally and physically.
In dealing with resentments, we set them on paper.
We listed people, institutions or [...]

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Money Matters

February 6, 2009

Money gradually became our servant
and not our master.
It became a means of exchanging love and service
with those about us.
When, with God’s help, we calmly accepted our lot,
then we found we could live at peace with ourselves
and show others who still suffered the same fears
that they could get over them, too.
We found that freedom from fear [...]

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