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Finding God In The Broken Pieces
Finding God In The Broken Pieces from Alcoholics Anonymous Click Here for Part I Besides a seeming inability to accept much on faith, we often found ourselves handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning prejudice. Many of us have been so touchy that even casual reference to spiritual things make us bristle with antagonism. This sort of thinking had to be abandoned. Though some of us resisted, we found no great difficulty in casting aside such feelings. Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as…
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We Agnostics from Alcoholics In the preceding chapters you have learned something of alcoholism. we hope we have made clear the distinction between the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic. If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic. If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer. To one who feels he is an atheist or agnostic such an experience seems…
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READ MOREAlcoholism: The Way Out
Alcoholism: The Way Out from Alcoholics Anonymous Click Here for Part I – More About Alcoholism Click Here for Part II – More About the Other gods We Bow Before On through the years this conduct continues, accompanied by his continual promises to be careful or to keep off the streets altogether. Finally, he can no longer work, his wife gets a divorce and he is held up to ridicule. He tries every known means to get the jaywalking idea out of his head. He shuts himself up in an…
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READ MOREMore About The Other gods We Bow Before
More About The Other gods We Bow Before from Alcoholics Anonymous For those who are unable to drink moderately the question is how to stop altogether. We are assuming, of course, that the reader desires to stop. Whether such a person can quit upon a nonspiritual basis depends upon the extent to which he has already lost the power to choose whether he will drink or not. Many of us felt that we had plenty of character. There was a tremendous urge to cease forever. Yet we found it…
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The Power of the Recovery Community Video by Recovery Daily Dose I came to recovery because of my own desperation, but I stayed because other people welcomed me with open arms and compassion. In today’s video, I talk about the impact that the kindness of the recovery community had on me, and why it is important for me to keep that kindness going as part of my recovery journey.
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More About Alcoholism from Alcoholics Anonymous Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of…
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