Follow the dictates of a Higher Power
and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter
what your present circumstances!
Alcoholics Anonymous, page 100
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THE DOCTOR'S OPINION |
page xxv |
What with our ultra-modern standards, our
scientific approach to everything, we are perhaps not well
equipped to apply the powers
of good that lie outside our synthetic knowledge.
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THE DOCTOR'S OPINION |
page xxv |
They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power
which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.
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THE DOCTOR'S OPINION |
page xxvi |
In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded
in a power greater than
themselves, if they are to re-create their lives.
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THE DOCTOR'S OPINION |
page xxvii |
One feels that something more than human power
is needed to produce the essential psychic change.
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THE DOCTOR'S OPINION |
page xxix |
...will power"
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Chapter 1. BILL'S STORY |
page 10 |
I had always believed in a Power
greater than myself.
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Chapter 1. BILL'S STORY |
page 11 |
Judging from what I had seen in Europe and since,
the power of God in human
affairs was negligible, the Brotherhood of Man a grim jest.
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Chapter
1. BILL'S STORY |
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Had this power
originated in him?
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Chapter
1. BILL'S STORY |
page
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There had been no more power
in him than there was in me at that minute; and this was none at
all.
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Chapter
1. BILL'S STORY |
page
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It was only a matter of being
willing to believe in a Power
greater than myself.
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Chapter
1. BILL'S STORY |
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Belief in the power
of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility
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Chapter
1. BILL'S STORY |
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We are growing in numbers and power.
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Chapter
2. THERE IS A SOLUTION |
page
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The feeling of having shared in a common peril is
one element in the powerful
cement which binds us.
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Chapter
2. THERE IS A SOLUTION |
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His will power
must be weak.
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Chapter
2. THERE IS A SOLUTION |
page
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As matters grow worse, he begins to use a
combination of high-powered
sedative and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work.
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Chapter
2. THERE IS A SOLUTION |
page
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What has become of the common sense and will power
that he still sometimes displays with respect to other matters?
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Chapter
2. THERE IS A SOLUTION |
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In a vague way their families and friends sense
that these drinkers are abnormal, but everybody hopefully awaits
the day when the sufferer will rouse himself from his lethargy
and assert his power of
will.
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Chapter
2. THERE IS A SOLUTION |
page
24 |
At a certain point in the drinking of every
alcoholic, he passes into a state where the most powerful
desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail.
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Chapter
2. THERE IS A SOLUTION |
page
24 |
The fact is that most
alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power
of choice in drink.
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Chapter
2. THERE IS A SOLUTION |
page
24 |
Our so called will power
becomes practically nonexistent.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 49 |
When, however, the perfectly logical
assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and
life as we see it, there is an All Powerful,
Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak
comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince
ourselves it isn't so.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 50 |
In our personal stories you will
find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and
conceives of the Power which
is greater than himself.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 50 |
Every one of them has gained access
to, and believe in, a Power
greater than himself.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 50 |
This Power
has in each case accomplished the miraculous, the humanly
impossible.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 50 |
They flatly declare that since they
have come to believe in a Power
greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that
Power, and to do certain simple things.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 50 |
They flatly declare that since they
have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take
a certain attitude toward that Power,
and to do certain simple things.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 50 |
In the face of collapse and despair,
in the face of the total failure of their human resources, they
found that a new power,
peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into them.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 51 |
When many hundreds of people are able
to say that the consciousness of the Presence of God is today
the most important fact of their lives, they present a powerful
reason why one should have faith.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 52 |
When we saw others
solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the
Universe, we had to stop doubting the power
of God.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 53 |
It is not by chance we were given the power
to reason, to examine the evidence of our sense, and to draw
conclusions.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 55 |
For faith in a Power
greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that
power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 55 |
For faith in a Power greater than
ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power
in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
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Chapter 4. WE AGNOSTICS |
page 56 |
He stood in the Presence of Infinite Power
and Love.
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Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS |
page 59 |
powerful!
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Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS |
page 59 |
But there is One who has all power
that One is God.
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Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS |
page 59 |
We admitted we were powerless
over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
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Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS |
page 59 |
Came to believe that a Power
greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS |
page 59 |
Sought through prayer and meditation
to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him ,
praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power
to carry that out.
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Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS |
page 60 |
(b) That probably no human power
could have relieved our alcoholism.
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Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS |
page 62 |
Neither could we reduce our
self-centeredness much by wishing or trying on our own power.
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Chapter
5. HOW IT WORKS |
page
63 |
Being all powerful,
He provided what we needed, if we kept close to Him and
performed His work well.
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Chapter
5. HOW IT WORKS |
page
63 |
As we felt new power
flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we
could face life successfully, as we became conscious of
His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow
or the hereafter.
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Chapter
5. HOW IT WORKS |
page
63 |
Take away my difficulties, that victory over
them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power,
Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.
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Chapter
5. HOW IT WORKS |
page
66 |
In that state, the wrong-doing of others,
fancied or real, had power
to actually kill.
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Chapter
5. HOW IT WORKS |
page
69 |
We remembered always that our sex powers
were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used
lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed.
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Chapter
6. INTO ACTION |
page
85 |
We can exercise our will power
along this line all we wish.
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Chapter
6. INTO ACTION |
page
85 |
Much has already been
said about receiving strength, inspiration, and direction
from Him who has all knowledge and power.
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Chapter
7. WORKING WITH OTHERS |
page
92 |
Show him, from your own experience, how the
queer mental condition surrounding that first drink
prevents normal functioning of the will power.
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Chapter
7. WORKING WITH OTHERS |
page
93 |
The main thing is that he be willing to
believe in a Power
greater than himself and that he live by spiritual
principles .
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Chapter
7. WORKING WITH OTHERS |
page
100 |
Follow the dictates of a Higher Power
and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world,
no matter what your present circumstances!
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Chapter
8. TO WIVES |
page
107 |
What had become of their judgment, their
common sense, their will power?
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Chapter
8. TO WIVES |
page
112 |
Show him you have confidence in his power
to stop or moderate.
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Chapter
8. TO WIVES |
page
113 |
Yet often such men had spectacular and powerful
recoveries.
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Chapter
8. TO WIVES |
page
114 |
The power
of God goes deep!
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Chapter
8. TO WIVES |
page
118 |
If your husband is trying to live on a
spiritual basis, he will also be doing everything in his power
to avoid disagreement or contention.
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Chapter
8. TO WIVES |
page
118 |
At such moments we forget that alcoholism is
an illness over which we could not possibly have had any power.
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Chapter
9. THE FAMILY AFTERWARD |
page
130 |
This dream world has been replaced by a
great sense of purpose, accompanied by a growing
consciousness of the power
of God in our lives.
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Chapter
9. THE FAMILY AFTERWARD |
page
130 |
We have found nothing incompatible between a
powerful spiritual
experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.
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Chapter
9. THE FAMILY AFTERWARD |
page
132 |
We have recovered, and have been given the power
to help others.
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Chapter
9. THE FAMILY AFTERWARD |
page
133 |
We are convinced that a spiritual mode of
living is a most powerful
health restorative. |
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