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“We also clutch at another wonderful excuse for avoiding
an inventory. Our present anxieties and troubles, we cry,
are caused by the behavior of other people – people who
really need a moral inventory.”
12 Steps & 12 Traditions, pg. 45
Step Four
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“I had spent my entire life in a world of selfishness,
dishonesty and fear. I had no idea how often I had
been self-seeking and dishonest. I played the victim,
blaming my environment, my childhood and other
people – anything except the real problem, my
self-centeredness.”
Step By Step, pg. 59
Were Entirely Ready
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“Following the principles laid out in the Big Book has not
always been comfortable, nor will I claim perfection. I have
yet to find a place in the Big Book that says, ‘Now you have
completed the Steps, have a nice life.’ The program is a plan
for a lifetime of daily living. There have been occasions where
the temptation to slack off has won. I view each of these as
learning opportunities.”
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, pg. 317
My Chance To Live
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“In this book you read again and again that faith
did for us what we could not do for ourselves.”
Alcoholics Anonymous, pgs. 70 & 71
How It Works
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“If you have a resentment you want to be free of, if you
will pray for the person or the thing that you resent, you
will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you
want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, pg. 552
Freedom From Bondage
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“A.A. has given me serenity of purpose and the
opportunity to be of service to God and to the
people about me, and I am serene in the infallibility
of these principles that provide the fulfillment of
my purpose.”
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, pg. 550
Freedom From Bondage
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“In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision,
we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness say:
‘God grant me the serenity to accept the things I
cannot change, courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not
mine, be done.’ “
12 Steps & 12 Traditions, pg. 41
Step Three
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“I make no claim that I know God in all His fullness. And I certainly
don’t feel that I understand God to any extent. But that there is a
power beyond my personal will which can do wonderful, friendly
things for me that I can’t do for myself – this I know beyond all
question. I have felt this marvelous healing power at work in my
own being, and I have seen the miraculous effects of this mysterious,
indefinable power in the lives of thousands of recovering addicts who
are my friends in Alcoholics Anonymous.”
Came To Believe, pg. 97
The Central Experience
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“Much to our relief, we discovered we did not need
to consider another’s conception of God. Our own
conception, however inadequate, was sufficient to
make the approach and to effect a contact with Him.”
Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 46
We Agnostics
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“We have found that God does not make too hard
terms with those who seek Him. To us, the realm
of spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive
or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open,
we believe, to all men.”
Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 46
We Agnostics
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