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UPCOMING EVENT --- MAY 21, 2022 ---AA ZOOM HISTORY ON THE 12 TRADITIONS
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STEP 1
We admitted we were
powerless over alcohol - that
our lives had become
unmanageable.
STEP 2
Came to believe that a Power
greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity
STEP 3
Made a decision to turn our
will and our lives over to the
care of God as we understood
Him.
STEP 4
Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.
STEP 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves,
and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.
STEP 6
Were entirely ready to have
God remove all these defects
of character.
STEP 7
Humbly asked Him to remove
our shortcomings.
STEP 8
Made a list of all persons we
had harmed, and became
willing to make amends to
them all.
STEP 9
Made direct amends to such
people wherever possible,
except when to do so would
injure them or others.
STEP 10
Continued to take personal
inventory and when we were
wrong promptly admitted it.
STEP 11
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.
STEP 12
Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to
carry this message to
alcoholics, and to practice
these principles in all
our affairs.
SURRENDER
SHARING
AMENDS
GUIDANCE
HONESTY
PURITY
UNSELFISHNESS
LOVE
TRUST GOD
CLEAN HOUSE
HELP OTHERS
Alcoholics Anonymous,
Chapter 5,
How it works,
AA,
Dr Bob,
Bill W,
Big Book,
12 Steps,
RECOVERED,
Powerless,
1st Step Experience,
Cr
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Brian and Katherine share on taking the 12 steps of AA
STEP 10
Sobriety - freedom from alcohol - through the teaching
and practice of the Twelve Steps, is the sole purpose
of an AA group.
Bill Wilson, AA co-founder,
1958 AA Grapevine
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{1930s Oxford Group Pamphlet}
How Do I Begin ?
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Deep Meditation - David Fesliyan
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Terre Haute, Indiana - 15 Minutes's of SILENCE / Step 11
STEP 11
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.
AA p87
We find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it.
The Four Absolutes
Honesty
Unselfishness
Love
Purity
We are now living
in "the Sunshine
of the Spirit."
We conduct a morning "quiet time" to
receive guidance from God.
The guidance
we receive is checked against the "Test for
self-will / God's Will" and with our "sharing
partners" in order to separate the God
thoughts from the self thoughts.
Surrender ............. Steps 1, 2, 3
Sharing ............... Steps 4, 5, 6, 7
Restitution ........... Steps 8, 9
Guidance .............. Steps 10, 11, 12
The 4 Absolutes were used by
the Oxford Group in 3 ways:
1. As a way to take inventory
of our past to see where we fell
short and in what ways, so that
we could learn what areas of
our life need to be worked on.
2. During meditation or while
being inspired or guided by
our Inner Voice, as a way to
differentiate between "God"
thoughts and human thoughts.
3. As a standard of living,
moment by moment.
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AA p 60-62 ----- "Bondage of self"
The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success. On that basis we are almost always in collision with something or somebody, even though our motives are good. Most people try to live by self-propulsion. Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players in his own way. If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished, the show would be great. Everybody, including himself, would be pleased. Life would be wonderful. In trying to make these arrangements our actor may sometimes be quite virtuous. He may be kind, considerate, patient, generous; even modest and self-sacrificing. On the other hand, he may be mean, egotistical, selfish and dishonest. But, as with most humans, he is more likely to have varied traits.
What usually happens? The show doesn't come off very well. He begins to think life doesn't treat him right. He decides to exert himself more. He becomes, on the next occasion, still more demanding or gracious, as the case may be. Still the play does not suit him. Admitting he may be somewhat at fault, he is sure that other people are more to blame. He becomes angry, indignant, self-pitying. What is his basic trouble? Is he not really a self-seeker even when trying to be kind? Is he not a victim of the delusion that he can wrest satisfaction and happiness out of this world if he only manages well? Is it not evident to all the rest of the players that these are the things he wants? And do not his actions make each of them wish to retaliate, snatching all they can get out of the show? Is he not, even in his best moments, a producer of confusion rather than harmony?
Our actor is self-centered - ego-centric, as people like to call it nowadays. He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all would be Utopia if the rest of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all and is locked up. Whatever our protestations, are not most of us concerned with ourselves, our resentments, or our self-pity?
Selfishness - self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in
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