How It Works
How often we have seen a person fail.
What is rarely?
Some of us have tried to hold on to these.
What are our old ideas?
The action of admitting to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our defects.
What is the Fifth Step?
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking.
What is intensive work with other alcoholics?
Inability to imagine life either with alcohol or without it.
What is the jumping-off place?
What half measures availed us.
What is nothing?
At some of these we balked. We thought we could find this.
What is an easier, softer way?
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development...
What is, "We will be amazed before we are half way through?"
Our rule is not to avoid a place where there is drinking...
What is "if we have a legitimate reason for being there?"
He was told of the acute poisoning from which he suffered, how it deteriorates the body of an alcoholic and warps his mind.
Who is the man in the bed?
What we need to be from the very start.
What is fearless and thorough?
Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step which many of us had never attempted.
What is a personal housecleaning?
Our code.
What is love and tolerance of others?
Your job now is to be at the place where you may be this to others.
What is maximum helpfulness?
The answers will come if...
What is "your own house is in order?"
The number one offender.
What is resentment?
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity. That, we think is the root of our troubles.
What is selfishness--self-centeredness?
This is what we really have. We are not cured of alcoholism.
What is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition?
Carry this message to other alcoholics!
What is the twelfth suggestion?
The less people tolerated us, the more we withdrew from society, from life itself. We became subjects of...
Who is King Alcohol?
It set in motion trains of circumstances which brought us misfortune we felt we didn't deserve.
What is fear?
Our troubles are of our own making. They arise out of ourselves. The alcoholic is an extreme example.
What is self-will run riot?
When these (four things) crop up, we ask God at once to remove them.
What are selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear?
Our only aim.
What is "to be helpful?"
We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you...
What is "trudge the Road of Happy Destiny?"