Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 89, Working With Others, Chapter 7
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are very ill.
Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friendsthis is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives.
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonynmous, Page 44, We Agnostics, Chapter 4
IN THE PRECEDING chapters you have learned something of alcoholism. We hope we have made clear the distinction between the alcoholic and the nonalcoholic. 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 impossible, but to continue as he is means disaster, especially if he is an alcoholic of the hopeless variety. To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face.
Wow to be doomed to an alcoholic death.....I so lived that in the last years of my drinking and it is in hindsight that i see the insanity and powerlessness that had overcome me as i was a alky looking for a place to die because my heart was already dead.
And what saved me...realising i was not alone and i could fire my old god and find a new one how did i realise this....i saw other people who talked my mind out loud and had hope in there eyes instead of death and for that and them i am forever grateful
Thanks VWG
light and love Zac
And what saved me...realising i was not alone and i could fire my old god and find a new one how did i realise this....i saw other people who talked my mind out loud and had hope in there eyes instead of death and for that and them i am forever grateful
Thanks VWG
light and love Zac
To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face.
I always skimmed over that sentence in my big book cause I didn't want to deal with it - coming to terms with this is a big part of the acceptance of the disease of alcoholism.
The spiritual basis does not have to be AA based but it has to exist in some form or other - as all alcoholics have endlessly proved we cannot recover on our own - something is supporting us when we enter recovery.
I always skimmed over that sentence in my big book cause I didn't want to deal with it - coming to terms with this is a big part of the acceptance of the disease of alcoholism.
The spiritual basis does not have to be AA based but it has to exist in some form or other - as all alcoholics have endlessly proved we cannot recover on our own - something is supporting us when we enter recovery.
